Luca Zannetti
Politecnico di Torino, Aerospace Engineering Department

ADDRESS:
Luca Zannetti
Politecnico di Torino
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aeronautica e Spaziale
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
10129 Torino, Italy
Tel: +39 0115646822
Fax: +39 0115646899
luca.zannetti@polito.it

SHORT CV
Born Perugia, Italy 1944. Studies and career at Politecnico di Torino

  • 1971 Laurea degree in Aeronautical Engineering
  • 1972-1980 Assistant Professor of Aerospace Propulsion
  • 1980-1986 Associate Professor of Aerospace Propulsion
  • 1986-2003 Professor of Aerospace Propulsion
  • 2003-          Professor of Fluid Dynamics
  • 2000-          Vice-Director of Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aeronautica e Spaziale.
  • 2001-          Member of Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
  • 2003-          Coordinator of Doctoral Research Course (PhD) in Fluid Dynamics

    • MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • CFD for compressible flow
  • Adjoint optimization [13],[4],[3]
  • Trapped Vortices [18],[17],[16],[15],[11],[10],[9],[6],[5]
  • Low order models and control [16],[13],[10],[6],[5]
  • Chaotic advection [7],[1],[2]
  • Turbomachinery design and optimization  [17],[14],[13],[8]

    • Recent and ongoing projects:
    - Royal Society (European Science Exchange), jointly with Prof. Sergei Chernnyshenko, Southampton University, UK, on 'Active control of trapped vortices' (completed).
    - EC Frameworks 6, VortexCell2050, on 'Fundamentals of actively controlled flows with trapped vortices', jontly with UK, French, Dutch, German, Russian and Italian Universities and Companies.
    - Scientific and Technical Cooperation Joint Project 'Vortex Control for Enviromental and Industrial Applications', with Prof. Slava Meleshko, Institute of Hydromechanics, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraina.
    - Research Contract "Aerospace Propulsion Devices Design" with ASI (Italian Aerospace Agency).
    - Research Contract "Hign Lift Wing Design" with CIRA (Italian Center for Aerospace Researche).
    - INTAS Coll. Airbus - Research Project "Vortex Dynamics" jointly with UK, French, Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian and Italian Universities and Companies.
    - Tutor of "turbomachinery noise reduction" PhD thesis (Hysan Telib) in cotutele with MEGA, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France.
    - Tutor of "flow separation control" Phd thesis (Federico Gallizio)

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    TEACHING
    II Level

  • (01AYLAM) Fluidodinamica delle turbomacchine (Fluid Dynamics of Turbomachinery)
  • (02IIGAM) Aeroelasticità delle turbomacchine (Aeroelasticity of Turbomachinery)

    • III Level
  • Problemi inversi e ottimizzazione in fluidodinamica (Inverse and Optimization Problems in Fluid Dynamics)
  • Dinamica Hamiltoniana di vortici puntiformi (Point vortex Hamiltonian Dynamics)