• Inverse problems in Fluid Dynamics

    The design problem is approached by formulating an inverse problem. The flow variables are prescribed at the unknown boundary of an aerodynamic device and its shape is sought. The method is applied to the design of aircraft components as intakes, nozzle, turbine and compressor blades in two and three dimensions.

  • Thermal Design and Heat Transfer

    This section covers the problem of the thermal design of turbine blades with thermal barriers and cooling technologies. The Design/Inverse problem is solved by using a classical approach to shape optimization.
    An analysis problem of unsteady heat transfer is also illustrated.

  • Turbomachinery Analysis, Design and Optimization

    Coupling of inverse problems and adjoint optimization techniques is here addresses focusing on the automatic design problems of turbomachinery components. The optimization process is based on the solution of the continuous adjoint of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations.

  • Unsteady Flows and Aeroelasticity in Turbomachines

    Flow unsteadiness and instabilities in compressors, as well as aeroelastic problems in turbomachines are addressed here by the CFD unsteady simulation.

  • Gasturbine Simulation and Control

    Reduce order modelling and CFD techniques are applied to the fully unsteady simulation of different aeroengine configurations.

  • Vortex Dynamics

    Steady vortex flows with trapped vortices and unsteady vortex motions are studied. Classical mapping techniques and Langrangian approaches, as the blob vortex method, are used to resolve the vorticity field in bounded domains.

  • Flow Control

    Numerical investigations about active flow control. Accurate RANS simulations of unsteady or separated flows and modelling of the flow actuators (e.g. of synthetic jet actuators) are here concerned.

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