Ricardo Mendes

The Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI) is a private, non-profit institution, with public utility status, created in 1990 by researchers of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Coimbra (DEM-UC), promoting research, development, demonstration, training, specialized consultancy and service provision activities. Since 2006, ADAI has been one of the four managing institutions of LAETA, the Associated Laboratory of Energy, Transports and Aeronautics (LA nº 50022), awarded 'Excellent' by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT). ADAI currently has 128 researchers and collaborators, 31 of them holding a PhD degree. ADAI is structured into four research centers, working in the areas of Energy and Detonics (CED); Forest Fires (CEIF), Industrial Ecology (CIE), and Sustainability of the Built Environment (CSBE). ADAI manages three laboratory buildings: Industrial Aerodynamics Lab (LAI, 1986); Forest Fire Studies Lab (LEIF, 1995) and Energy and Detonics Lab (LEDAP). In addition to these laboratories, ADAI’s activities are also carried out at the facilities of DEM-UC and of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, where a branch of ADAI was created in 2014.