Theses

Ongoing

• Raffaele Mancuso
  phiAGKE in flussi turbolenti su superfici con pattern

• Marina Zenobi
  Vortex stretching in turbulence

• Davide Alloggio
  Flow control per corpi di geometria complessa: ottimizazione della posizione degli attuatori

• Giorgia Pallara
  Stabilita’ del flusso intorno a un’ala di libellula

• Marco Zappoli
  HST con point particles

• Martina Buffoli
  Fluidodinamica nasale

• Jacopo Alberti
  Fluidodinamica nasale

• Ömer Altay
  Rhinomanometry and facial masks

• Zainab Mohamed Osman Ali
  Streamwise/spanwise forcing in turbulent Couette flow

• Luca Virecci Fana
  GPU-based FFT on a spectral DNS code

Master

• Simone Lomolino (2025, July)
  Eulerian-Lagrangian analysis of turbulent channel flow with drag reduction

• Carlantonio Di Venosa (2025, July)
  CFD-driven Machine Learning for the classification of nasal breathing difficulties

• Luigi Raggi (2025, July)
  A DNS analysis of the effects of cross-sectional geometric defects on riblet performance

• Francesca Cerbone (2025, July)
  Turbolenza nei solidi? Aspetti statistici della deformazione intermittente nelle transizioni di fase martensitiche in leghe a memoria di forma

• Karl Vieths(2025, April)
  Spanwise forcing without walls

• Francesco Esposito (2024, December)
  DNS and LES with the immersed-boundary technique

• Fabiana Ghilardi (2024, December)
  Transition to turbulence in drag-reduced pipe flows

• Lorenzo Pionetti (2024, December)
  Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction by tensegrity fabric

• Andrea Portioli (2024, December)
  Porting a DNS solver to a multi-GPU architecture

• Lucrezia Vigo (2024, December)
  Numerical prediction of light-driven algal growth in a photobioreactor

• Kia Abdollahi Makouei (2024, July)
  Interaction of large and small scales in turbulent Couette flow

• Angelo Raimondo Favero (2024, July)
  A reduced model for the flow in the human nose

• Simone Gallo (2024, July)
  On the existence of large structures in Rayleigh–Bénard convection

• Giacomo Ronchetti (2024, July)
  Direct Numerical Simulation of Riblets Drag Reduction: Accounting for the Corner Singularity in Arbitrary Geometries

• Niccolò Berizzi (2024, April)
  Turbulent Drag Reduction on a Transonic Airfoil with a Shock wave: Direct Numerical Simulation and Aeroacoustic Analysis

• Riccardo Bertoncello (2024, April)
  Space-scale analysis of turbulent canopy flows

• Andrea Cavallari (2024, April)
  The turbulent wake after a bluff body: a phase-aware analysis

• Riccardo Consonni (2024, April)
  Adjoint-based data assimilation of a compressible starting jet

• Nil Couto Ovejero (2024, April)
  Streamwise traveling waves of wall deformation for turbulent drag reduction

• Marco Galli (2024, April)
  Spanwise forcing for turbulent heat transfer enhancement

• Marildo Kola (2024, April)
  Particle-laden turbulent wavy channel flow

• Maria Vittoria Pennisi (2024, April)
  Analytical modelling of Conjugate Heat Transfer for the nasal flow

• Ludovico Petrucci (2023, December)
  Application of Machine Learning techniques for flowfield features reconstruction

• Aditya Raman (2023, December)
  DNS of a Turbulent Channel Flow with Partial Slip

• Berkay Ukoz (2023, December)
  Understanding the mismatch between clinical and numerical measurements of nasal resistance

• Riccardo Armellini (2023, October)
  A patient-specific CFD study of expiration for normal and pathological nasal anatomies

• Julien Cerutti (2023, October)
  DNS investigation of turbulent flow over a circular recess

• Lorenzo Pierpaoli (2023, July)
  Critical assessment of RANS turbulence models in predicting the turbulent flow past a rectangular cylinder

• Marco Castelletti (2023, May)
  A machine-learning based zonal approach for turbulence modeling

• Stefano Cipelli (2023, May)
  Efficient Direct Numerical Simulations of Straight and Sinusoidal Riblets in Turbulent Channel Flows

• Andrea Conforti (2023, May)
  Understanding friction drag reduction via synthetic forcing

• Guido Guglielmo Tesa (2023, May)
  Rinomanometria: uno studio teorico-sperimentale

• Pietro Cassottana (2022, October)
  A Lagrangian method for coherent structures identification based on the finite-time Lyapunov exponent

• Riccardo Margheritti (2022, October)
  A Computational Geometry approach for Machine Learning based diagnosis of nasal breathing difficulties aided by CFD

• Umberto Zucchelli (2022, July)
  Assessment and validation of an in-house finite-volume compressible CFD solver for Large Eddy Simulation

• Carlo Brignoli, Lorenzo Cacciatori (2022, April)
  Drag reduction by riblets on a commercial UAV

• Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi (2022, April)
  A DNS code to evaluate drag reduction with sinusoidal riblets

• Giulio Foggi Rota (2022, April)
  On-off pumping for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow

• Marcello Macellari (2022, April)
  Fluid dynamics optimization for the surgical treatment of septal deviations

• Davide Selvatici (2021, December)
  Structural effects of curvature on near-wall turbulence

• Lorenzo Vecchietti (2021, December)
  A Direct Numerical Simulation code for the flow in the human nose

• Amedeo Marzini (2021, October)
  Linear stability analysis of the flow past two staggered square cylinders

• Matteo Paolo Silvani (2021, October)
  Dimples as a drag reduction technique: a preliminary DNS approach

• Kazuto Hasegawa (2021, July)
  Prediction of pathologies of human nose by machine learning with flow physics

• Marco Leali (2021, July)
  The influence of endplate geometry and tip structure on wheel wake aerodynamics

• Marco Negri (2021, July)
  Wall turbulence: an exploratory approach to analyse roughness

• Giacomo Nosotti (2021, July)
  Verifica sperimentale di un rinomanometro a quattro fasi

• Jimmy Vianello (2021, June)
  Development of a multi-GPU Navier-Stokes solver

• Jacopo Casella (2021, April)
  Machine-learning based classification of geometrically defective airfoils

• Federica Gattere (2021, April)
  Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction described with AGKE and triple decomposition

• Alessio Malli (2021, April)
  DNS study of turbulent drag reduction via DBD plasma actuators

• Andrea Rossi (2021, April)
  Analytical correction of corner singularity for the turbulent flow over riblets

• Massimo Zanolini (2021, April)
  Turbulent drag reduction using spanwise forcing in compressible regime

• Francesco Romano’ (2020, December)
  Ottimizzazione fluidodinamica per la chirurgia del setto nasale

• Victor Garcia Bennet (2020, July)
  A Numerical CFD Study to Support Clinical Tests of Graft-Gas Coverage after DMEK Eye Surgery

• Francesca Mangani (2020, July)
  Effetto della temperatura nella fluidodinamica nasale

• Andrea Spini (2020, July)
  A neural-network approach for predicting the aerodynamic performance of airfoils

• Alessandro Testa (2020, July)
  Active turbulence control through wall deformation in channel flow

• Maria Debora Mauriello (2020, June)
  Inner-outer scale interactions in turbulent Couette flow

• Matteo Zangrandi (2020, June)
  Aerodynamics over complex terrains and its effects on wind farm power production: an LES study

• Umberto Tanzini (2020, June)
  Fluidodinamica computazionale e deviazione del setto nasale: risultati preliminari di un approccio moderno alla progettazione dell’intervento chirurgico di settoplastica
  Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele

• Andrea Andreolli (2020, April)
  Global energy budgets in turbulent plane Couette and Poiseuille flows

• Alessandro Borroni (2020, April)
  Shear sheltering e riduzione di attrito in flussi turbolenti di parete

• Gabriele Dini Ciacci (2020, April)
  Comparing different anatomies in nasal fluid dynamics

• Francesca Fugaro (2020, April)
  Project Lung: Design of an experimental tool that simulates human breathing for scientific research within the OpenNOSE project
  LM in Design & Engineering

• Marco Lugaresi (2020, April)
  Simulazione numerica diretta della fluidodinamica nasale: aspetti di efficienza computazionale

• Francesco Parisi (2019, December)
  Ottimizzazione tramite CFD di una vettura di Formula E

• Mirco Meazzo (2019, October)
  Scaling Performance of a DNS solver written in CPL

• Mattia Ciarlatani (2019, July)
  Ottimizzazione di forma adjoint-based per flussi turbolenti

• Marco Villani (2019, July)
  Second-order structure function tensor budgets for channels at different values of Reynolds number

• Luca Butera (aprile 2019, April)
  Nasal pathology assessment through Supervised Learning on Computational Fluid Dynamics data: a preliminary study
  LM in Computer Science and Engineering

• Gregorio Frassoldati (2019, April)
  Performance Study of an Immersed Boundary DNS Code applied to the Flow around a Confined Circular cylinder

• Emanuele Gallorini (2019, April)
  Coherent structures in wall turbulence with drag reduction

• Daniele Massaro (2019, April)
  Stability characteristics of wall-bounded flow with spanwise forcing

• Gianluca Romani (2019, April)
  Machine Learning techniques for evaluating nasal airflow: preliminary results

• Francesco Secchi (2019, April)
  Immersed boundary simulation of turbulent flow through a peristaltic actuator

• Luca Boscagli (2018, April)
  Effect of the forcing term in the direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow

• Alessandro Chiarini (2018, April)
  Production, transport and dissipation of turbulent stresses in channels

• Luca Guastoni (2018, April)
  Direct Numerical Simulation of turbulent channel flow on Intel Xeon PHI (KNL) architecture

• Giorgio Vicenzotti (2018, April)
  Influenza della temperatura nelle vie aeree superiori

• Roberto Mosca (2017, December)
  Adjoint-Based Optimization of a Micro T-mixer

• Matteo Pesarin (2017, December)
  Shape Optimization: Generalized Boundary Conditions for Adjoint Navier-Stokes Equations
  LM in Mathematical Engineering

• Andrea Schillaci (2017, October)
  Modellazione e ottimizzazione del flusso nelle cavita’ nasali

• Giuseppe Sorgiovanni (2017, October)
  A robust open-source adjoint optimization method for external aerodynamics

• Alvaro Gomez Cortes (2017, April)
  Grid Convergence Study of a Lattice-Boltzmann CFD Code using a Realistic Generic Car Model

• Savino Martino (2017, July)
  Modelling of blood flow in a stenotic vessel

• Michele Pinelli (2017, July)
  DNS of a turbulent channel flow over a rough wall

• Celeste M. Monti (2017, April)
  Metodo dei contorni immersi per la simulazione numerica diretta di correnti turbolente su pareti non piane

• Alberto Remigi (2017, April)
  Generalized Kolmogorov equation for turbulent wall flows with drag reduction

• Lorenzo Sufra’ (2017, April)
  Studio comparativo di modelli di turbolenza LES all’interno di una cavità nasale

• Daniel Mutlyashki (2016, December)
  Novel methodologies of CFD in the automotive industry using a Lattice Boltzmann code

• Lucia Mascotelli (2016, July)
  Direct Numerical Simulations of a turbulent pipe flow at high Reynolds numbers

• Carlo Suardi (2016, July)
  Puff statistics in a drag-reduced turbulent pipe flow

• Jacopo Banchetti (2016, April)
  Skin-friction turbulent drag reduction: a Lagrangian perspective

• Leonardo Palma (2016, April)
  Ottimizzazione in correnti turbolente con il metodo delle equazioni aggiunte: sviluppo di una metodologia su piattaforma HPC

• Daniele Menni (2015, December)
  A GPU accelerated solver for DNS of homogeneous isotropic turbulence

• Mattia Murari (2015, December)
  Ottimizzazione vincolata adjoint-based: sviluppo di una metodologia open source su piattaforma HPC

• Joseph Diano (2015, July)
  Studio sperimentale di onde peristaltiche per la riduzione dell’attrito turbolento

• Luca Grizzetti (2015, July)
  Rilievo sperimentale del campo di velocita’ intorno a corpi tozzi con inserti in materiale poroso

• Giacomo Lamberti, Francesco Manara (2015, April)
  Simulazioni RANS e LES della fluidodinamica delle cavita’ nasali

• Alessandro Monti (2015, April)
  Skin-friction drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow via pulsating forcing

• Eleonora Biondi (2014, October)
  Simulazione LES del flusso nelle cavita’ nasali

• Damiano Molinari (2014, October)
  Miglioramento di un modello di turbolenza nel codice di calcolo OpenFOAM

• Matteo Binda (2014, July)
  Simulazione fluidodinamica del processo di sovrariscaldamento di un motore al mozzo per bicicletta elettrica

• Enrico Calore (2014, July)
  Traccianti lagrangiani in flussi turbolenti di parete

• Claudio Alati (2014, April)
  Ottimizzazione di un dispositivo per la respirazione assistita tramite CFD

• Luca Cirrottola (2014, April)
  Optimal feedback control of plane channel flow over porous walls

• Andrea Codrignani (2014, April)
  Impulse Response in a Turbulent Channel Flow

• Ilaria De Dominicis (2014, July)
  Modelling aspects of wall flows with turbulent drag reduction

• Luca Marchesani (2014, April)
  Turbulent drag reduction via oblique travelling waves

• Matteo Marchi (2014, July)
  Viscous fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell

• Antonio Plebani (2014, July)
  Correnti gassose all’interno di micro-canali: studio e sviluppo di modelli matematici e simulazioni mediante OpenFOAM

• Filippo Salmoiraghi (2014, April)
  Reduced-order models for potential flows past parametrized NACA airfoils based on an isogeometric boundary element method

• Davide Arnone (2013, December)
  Experimental measurement of the efficiency of turbulent mixing for non conventional mixers

• Selene Piantanida (2013, December)
  System Identification for the Sound Field of a Subsonic Jet

• Michele Galli (2013, July)
  Studio DNS della riduzione di attrito turbolento mediante forzamento virtuale

• Francesco Gilardoni (2013, July)
  Sviluppo di un efficiente solutore Chebyshev-tau per la DNS di flussi turbolenti di parete

• Chiara Pesci (2013, July)
  OpenNOSE: an open-source procedure for the simulation of nasal aerodynamics

• Roberto Pieri (2013, July)
  Stanford University Unstructured: un software innovativo per la simulazione e l’ottimizzazione geometrica

• Domenico Sgro’ (2013, July) Miscelamento in microcanali: miglioramento dell’efficienza con il metodo delle equazioni aggiunte

• Marco Angiolini (2013, April)
  Funzioni di parete adattive per il modello di turbolenza k − ω

• Simone Battaini (2013, April)
  Sensitività aerodinamica nelle autovetture da competizione: uno studio basato su codice open-source e operatore aggiunto.

• Martina Biggi (2013, April)
  Riduzione di resistenza in flussi turbolenti di parete: confronto tra esperimenti e simulazione numerica diretta

• Mattia Lui (2013, April)
  Stenosi carotidea in geometrie patient-specific: potenzialità di modelli RANS transizionali

• Alice Marocco (2013, April)
  Caratterizzazione aerodinamica di un velivolo addestratore in vista di un’applicazione di controllo attivo

• Marco Edoardo Rosti (2013, April)
  Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow over porous walls

• Davide Scarselli (2013, April)
  Non-modal stability of laminar channel flow over porous walls

• Daniele Cappelli (2012, December)
  Performance of Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes models in predicting separated flows : study of the hump flow model problem

• Francesco Gritta (2012, December)
  Studio CFD dell’anteriore di una vettura di Formula 1

• Enrico Sumatra (2012, July)
  Fenomeni fluidodinamici in geometrie stenotiche: stabilita’ non-modale e perturbazioni ottime

• Daniele Di Pasquale (2012, July)
  La fluidodinamica come nuovo strumento di analisi del flusso nasale: risultati preliminari
  Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia - Universita’ degli Studi di Milano

• Lorenzo Rossini (2012, July)
  The effect of taper in an idealized aortic geometry
  Politecnico di Torino - Alta Scuola Politecnica

• Marco Nicotra (2012, April)
  Radial fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell

• Carlo Sovardi (2012, April)
  Linear stability of plane Poiseuille flow over a steady Stokes layer

• Marcello Vitali (2012, April)
  Un attuatore al plasma per applicazioni aeronautiche

• Niccolo’ Fabbiane (2011, December)
  An innovative DNS code for high-Re turbulent pipe flow

• Davide Gatti (2011, December)
  Turbulent drag reduction at moderate Reynolds numbers via spanwise velocity waves

• Francesco Pasqua (2011, December)
  Analisi sperimentale preliminare di un dispositivo innovativo per il mixing turbolento

• Stefano Corti (2011, July)
  Studio numerico della fluidodinamica all’interno della cavità nasale

• Alberto Lunghi (2011, July)
  Tecniche di High-Throughput Computing per la simulazione fluidodinamica

• Gabriele Pozzi (2011, July)
  Verifica computazionale di una configurazione operativa per uno spinnaker asimmetrico da regata

• Simone Benelli (2011, March)
  Simulazioni fluidodinamiche in geometrie di interesse automobilistico

• Emanuele Bezzecchi (2010, December)
  Non modal linear stability analysis of an EHD channel flow

• Andrea Bertolucci (2010, October)
  Studio sperimentale di onde viaggianti in flussi turbolenti di parete

• Daniele Cavaglieri (2010, October)
  Optimal feedback control of turbulent channel flow through wall-based sensors and actuators
  LM in Mechanical Engineering

• Claudio Ottonelli (2010, July)
  Energy and enstrophy balances for wall-bounded turbulent flows with drag reduction

• Marcello Pelis, Michele Rampanelli (2010, July)
  Risposta impulsiva in un flusso turbolento

• Marco Carini (2009, July)
  Risposta impulsiva di un flusso turbolento omogeneo e isotropo

• Fabrizio Andrigo (2008, February)
  Flussi turbolenti in condotti anulari con pareti rotanti

• Davide Cerizza (2007, July)
  Electroconvection in 3 dimensions: a numerical study

• Luca Galantucci (2007, February)
  Scalare passivo in flussi turbolenti di parete
  LM in Fisica, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano

• Claudio Viotti (2006, October)
  Ciclo di co-supporto nella turbolenza di parete

• Jean-Francois Bertolino (2006, April)
  Modelli di propagazione del fuoco per gli incendi di bosco in 3d e tempo reale

• Giovanni Longari (2005, December)
  Algoritmi paralleli per la DNS di turbolenza di parete

• Barbara Ammattatelli (2005, October)
  Riduzione di attrito turbolento con soffiaggio trasversale

• Sara Ceccon (2005, October)
  Interazione fra campo fluidodinamico e campo elettrico

• Stefano Bisson (2004, April)
  Risposta lineare del flusso turbolento in un canale

• Stefano Giussani (2003, June)
  Correlazioni spazio-temporali nella turbolenza di parete

• Piergiorgio Ferro (2002, December)
  Errori di discretizzazione temporale nella simulazione numerica diretta di correnti turbolente

• Fabio Brenna (2002, February)
  Studio numerico degli effetti della curvatura trasversale sulla turbolenza di parete

• Davide Pirrò
  Simulazione numerica delle alterazioni indotte in un flusso turbolento da getti alla parete

• Patrick Morandi
  Simulazione numerica del flusso turbolento in un canale a sezione anulare

Bachelor

• Michele Marogna (2010, July)
  Studio fluidodinamico di un motore a due tempi

• Giorgio Porcelli (2010, February)
  Dinamica di vortici puntiformi e trasporto di particelle passive in flussi bidimensionali

• Ignazio Sciacca (2009, September) Ottimizzazione e modellazione del vento ionico
  Laurea in Ingegneria Fisica

• Davide Comolli (2006, September)
  Studio fluidodinamico di pale per gruppo di bassa pressione per turbine a vapore