Profilo personale: Francesco De Vanna
Francesco De Vanna
Francesco De Vanna
Assistant Professor in Machines Fluid Dynamics (ING-IND/08)
Department of Industrial Engineering – University of Padova
Profile
Passionate about propulsion and fluid dynamics, I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Padova specializing in Computational Fluid Dynamics for both external aerodynamics and internal turbomachinery flows.
My expertise lies in compressible flows, where I employ advanced methodologies such as Large-Eddy Simulation (LES), Wall-Modeled LES (WMLES), and optimization techniques for the design of efficient machines. Main developer of URANOS, an open-source GPU-accelerated Navier–Stokes solver for high-fidelity simulations of compressible flows.
Current Teaching
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2023 – present | Professor – Machines Fluid Dynamics (B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, UniPD)
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2022 – present | Professor – Advanced Methods for Optimization of Machine Thermofluidynamics (M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, UniPD)
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2020 – present | Professor – Introduction to Numerical Methods for Unsteady Gas Dynamics (Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, UniPD)
Previous Positions
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2020 – 2022 | Adjunct Professor – Laboratory of Computational Fluid Dynamics (M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering, UniPD)
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2020 – 2023 | Post-doctoral Fellow – Machines Fluid Dynamics, Department of Industrial Engineering, UniPD
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2018 | Visiting Ph.D. – ENSMA Poitiers (FR), research on super/hypersonic flows
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2016 – 2019 | Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics – Dissertation: “A high-resolution fully compressible Navier–Stokes solver for analysis of moving objects at high Mach numbers”
Research Topics
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Gas dynamics for aeroengines
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Large-Eddy Simulation (LES)
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High-performance computing (HPC) and GPU programming
Thesis Proposals
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Numerical methods, turbulence modeling, and CFD programming on the URANOS solver → URANOS GitHub
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Optimal machine design through CFD-informed databases and optimization strategies
| Nazione: | Italia |
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| Città /Località: | padova |
