Description:

The Group of Fluid Dynamics at the Department of Engineering fosters research and high education regarding the analysis of the motion of incompressible and compressible fluids, and their application in aeronautical and aerospace engineering. The study of acoustic waves, shock waves, aeroelastic effects, and, more generally, fluid-structure interaction phenomena, belongs to the research interests of the Group.

More in detail, the Group is particularly active in the development of innovative numerical methods for the solution of the governing equations (typically partial differential equations) that are of interest for the topics mentioned above.

The following research topics are currently under investigation:

• Development of numerical models of computational fluid dynamics based on the finite volume methods for problems of aerodynamic, aeroacoustic and fluid-structure interaction, in aeronautical and aerospace engineering.
• Innovative aeroacoustic modeling and design of industrial devices towards the fulfillment of European EURO 5 standards to limit emissions in terrestrial and aeronautical transportation.
• Development of advanced numerical models, based on the Boundary Element Method or the Discontinuous Galerkin Method, for the solution of hyperbolic, elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations with application in engineering.
• Development of multigrid fast solvers for systems of algebraic equations stemming from the discretization of partial differential equations.
• Development of highly parallelizable computer codes that exploit distributed-memory architectures and modern accelerators, such as graphical processing units.
• Development of physically based neural networks.
• Study of modern criteria for risk prevention and assessment associated with the management of civil and commercial aircraft.

List of main research projects:

2022 – PRIN: Hydrodynamic devices for micro-particle trapping and vibrational energy harvesting (HYDRA)

Keywords: ING-IND/06, Computational methods, Aeroacoustics, Aeroelasticity, Discontinuous Galerkin methods, Boundary Element methods, High-performance Computing, Neural Networks, Risk assessment for civil aviation.