The group has a consolidated background in theory and methods of hydrodynamic stability, with focus on linear stability, both modal and non modal. The applications developed have been mainly in the analysis of shear and capillary instabilities of two-phase flows. Another research interest is related to the analysis and the development of micro-devices devoted to flow control (and also to heat transfer cooling), the so-called synthetic jet. More recently, the spark-jet plasma actuator device has been addressed, from both the theoretical and the experimental viewpoints. The numerical simulation activity is conducted within two main research fields. The first one is relative to the applications of Volume of Fluid (VOF) techniques to complex two-fluid systems. The second research topic, related to the numerical simulation activity, is relative to the construction of high order numerical schemes for turbulent simulations.

Team coordinator

 

 

Luigi de Luca

Team members

 

 

Gennaro Coppola
Francesco Capuano