Ali Shamooni Pour Dezfouli
Research interests Turbulent combustion modelling: RANS and LES of turbulent flames with detailed chemistry, Turbulence chemistry interaction models.Artificial Thickened Flame (ATF) model. Its applications includes: Premixed flame propagation and fast deflagrations, MILD combustion, Laminar combustion modelling Numerical simulation of micro flames with detailed chemistry. Its applications includes: Dynamics of flames in micro channels. Methods to reduce the computational cost of using detailed […]
Ghobad Bagheri
Research interests My research interests are centered in the area of combustion and energy, and I am particularly interested in the application of CFD simulation in flameless and micro-scale combustion systems. During my Masters in UTM, I joined the High Speed Reacting Flow laboratory (HiREF) to develop a 3D turbulence model of their lab-scale flameless […]
Giancarlo Gentile
Research interests My research activity is focused on the modeling processes for the thermo-valorization of solid fuels, like coal, biomass and waste. In particular, I am working on the development of a comprehensive CFD tool able to support the technological implementation of new processes for the effective exploitation of solid fuels potential. The new code […]
Mattia Bissoli
Research interests My research activity is focused on the role of kinetics in internal combustion engines and, in particular, on the coupling of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engines and bio-fuels. In my PhD I’ve developed a new predictive model for the simulation of the thermo-fluid dynamics in HCCI engines, able to accounts for the […]
Warumporn Pejpichestakul
Research interests My main research is focused on combustion of natural gas, in particular the formation of pollutant species such as NOx, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and carbonaceous particles (soot) in laminar flames. Particular attention is being given to study the main chemical and physical pathways of pollutant species from the combustion of natural gas, […]
Andrea Bertolino
Research interests My main research activity focuses on the use of optimization and uncertainty quantification methods in kinetic modelling of mechanisms for the combustion of e-fuels. Particular attention is being given to non-conventional combustion regimes, such as MILD, and to the development of tools for the optimization of existing models using large number of kinetic […]
Andrea Locaspi
Research interests My research focuses on the chemical kinetics involved in thermochemical valorization of waste. My core expertise lies in the development of semi-detailed and fully lumped kinetic models. My primary research activity addresses the condensed-phase thermal degradation of plastics, where I proposed an innovative methodology to describe complex polymeric networks at low computational cost. […]
Edoardo Cipriano
Research interests My research focuses on direct simulations of multiphase flows, with a particular emphasis on developing numerical methods for phase-changing and reactive systems. As part of this work, I have developed an open-source code based on the Basilisk framework, which utilizes the Volume-Of-Fluid approach to simulate evaporation and combustion in generic gas-liquid systems. The […]
Edoardo Ramalli
Research interests My research interests are in extracting knowledge from scientific data. It starts from developing a framework capable of collecting scientific data, like combustion kinetics, to interpret, simulate and validate them in an automatic way. Furthermore, my research concerns applying big data analysis techniques such as data quality analysis, extrapolation of correlation between the […]
Francesco Serse
Research interests My research activity is focused on the assessment of detailed kinetic mechanisms of pyrolysis and combustion processes in gas phase and in condensed phase by means of electronic structure calculations. In particular, my research interests concern the thermal degradation of plastics and soot nucleation and growth from a gaseous source. Education Selected Publications