@: carlomassimo.casciola@uniroma1.it
CURRENT MEMBERS
Aeroacustic of supersonic jets. Numerical and experimental analysis of gaseous flows through MEMS.
Theoretical models and numerical simulations of multiphase flows.
Theoretical models and numerical simulations of multiphase flows.
Statistical characterization of turbolent flows: intermittency and scaling, scale-by-scale budgets, isotropy recovery.
Multiphase flows: dynamics of particles and bubbles in shear flows, turbolence modulation.
Wetting and nucleation from surfaces with heterogeneities; superhydrophobic surfaces; rare events methods; molecular dynamics & Monte Carlo & any sampling technique; energy materials, condensed matter electronic structure methods
Multiphase flows: dynamics of particles and bubbles in shear flows, turbolence modulation.
Turbulent combustion: premixed flame turbulence interaction, flame instability, LES modeling for premixed flame. Two phase flows: particle dynamics in turbulent flows, bubble dynamics. Supercritical flows: mixing at supercritical thermodynamic conditions. Hemodynamics: blood flows in artery realistic geometry. Drag reduction in wall bounded flows.
Wetting and nucleation from surfaces with heterogeneities; superhydrophobic surfaces; intrinsic and effective liquid slip; rare events methods; molecular dynamics.
Experimental analysis of aeroacoustics of free and impinging supersonic jets. PIV techniques for jet flows. Experimental microfluidics.
Multiphase flows: dynamics of particles and bubbles in shear flows, turbolence modulation.
Computational fluid dynamics of multiphase flows with diffuse interface models. Dynamics of drops and bubbles and shock-bubble interaction.
Low Reynolds number flows: dynamics of microswimmers and particles, interactions with slipping surfaces.
Bubble transport in turbulent flows.
Micro-particle/bubble transport in turbulent flow in complex geometries.
Turbulence dynamics and associated energy mechanisms in separated flows.
Superhydrophobic surfaces and their effect on drag and turbulent flow characteristics
Wetting properties of complex nanostructured surfaces in order to determine the stability of the superhydrophobic state using advanced techniques of molecular dynamics simulation.
PhD STUDENTS
Numerical investigation of internal combustion engines considering the fully turbulent, compressible, multi-phasic, unsteady moving boundary flow with the practical combustion products by developing a high order CFD scheme (Supervisor: Francesco Battista).
ROBERTA MESSINA
Hemodynamic simulations in real vessel geometry at physiological hematocrit levels including the modelling of red blood cells (Supervisor: Francesco Battista).
ROBERTA COSTANTINI
Turbulence modification in a pipe flow due to superhydrophobic walls. (Supervisor: Francesco Battista)
Nucleation near hydrophobic nanostructures via atomistic rare events methods. (Supervisor: Alberto Giacomello)
Cavitation of vapor bubbles: continuum models for heterogeneous nucleation; effective nucleation rate models. (Supervisor: Alberto Giacomello)
Molecular dynamics simulations of nanopore sensing.
Analysis of the protein translocation through pore and associated ionic currents. (Supervisor: Mauro Chinappi)
Bubbles' nucleation and dynamics confined in biological micro-structures and artificial systems. Bubbles and ultrasound interaction. Cavitation effects on endothelium permeability. Fabrication of micro-devices. (Supervisor:_)
Cavitation and bubble dynamics with the aid of diffuse interface approach.
Numerical studying of Landau-Lifshitz fluctuating Navier-Stokes equations to model thermal fluctuations at the continuum level. (Supervisor: Francesco Magaletti)
DAVIDE CAPRINI
Experimental analysis of microfluidics applications. Manufacturing of microfluidic networks in a Lab-On-A-Chip systems. Hydrophilic and hydrophobic surface treatments for microfluidic channels. Multiphase Experimental investigations with microPIV technique. (Supervisor: Giorgia Sinibaldi)
Molecular Dynamics simulations to study vapour bubble nucleation in the proximity of hydrophobic walls with topographical heterogeneities. (Supervisor: A. Giacomello, S. Meloni)
GIULIA SILVANI
Experiments on cavitation-enhanced drug delivery. Analysis of the effect of cavitation on micro-vasculature permeability using a blood-vessel-on-a-chip. (Supervisor: G. Sinibaldi)