The research activity focuses on the development of innovative computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes and their application to flow simulations of industrial interest. Everyday work is performed with both in-house and commercial/opensource codes (Fluent, CFX, Star-CCM+, OpenFOAM). A synthetic list of the activities follows:
1. Shape optimization based on high-fidelity simulations and genetic algorithms to enhance turbomachinery performance (pumps, turbines, compressors) and to reduce industrial boiler pollutants emission;
2. Development, implementation and application of high-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for simulations of turbomachinery, aeronautical, automotive and hemodynamics applications;
3. Application of commercial/opensource codes to industrial problems such as the fluid dynamics analysis of small firearms internal ballistic and of the pollutants emission in a flare stack, and the design of a tri-rotor drone aerodynamics.
Address:
Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
date/time interval:
(January 1, 2020 - )