Luca Brandt

Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)

Profile

Research interests

Computational fluid dynamics (cfd)
Fluid mechanics
Heat and mass transfer
Multiphase flows

Biography

Luca Brandt is professor in Hydraulics at Politecnico di Torino since 2024. Before, he had been Professor in Fluid Mechanics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden (2012-2024) and at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (2021-2024). He received a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from University of Rome, La Sapienza in 1997, and PhD in Fluid Mechanics at KTH in 2003. Before joining KTH as assistant professor he spent several months at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France and at the University of Bologna, Italy. Luca’s research interests are in the general area of multiphase turbulence, particle laden flows, heat and mass transfer, low-Reynolds-number flows and complex fluids, hydrodynamic instabilities and flow control, with focus on the development of theoretical models and high-fidelity numerical simulations. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed journal papers including 1 Annual Review Fluid Mechanics in 2022. He was the recipient of an ERC consolidator grant to study particle suspensions in 2013 and of the “outstanding young researcher” award from the Swedish Research Council in 2014. He had been awarded the International Panetti Ferrari Prize and Golden Medal in the field of applied mechanics, Accademia dei Lincei, Turin, Italy, in 2022, the position as outstanding researcher in Mechanics by the Swedish Research Council in 2008 and the G. Gustafsson prize in 2005. Luca has served the community organizing several workshops and summer schools and is associated editor of the European Journal of Mechanics/B and of MECCANICA.

Curriculum

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Scientific branch

CEAR-01/A - Hydraulics
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)

Research topics

  • Study of multiphase flows, with heat and mass transfer, mainly by means of interface-resolved numerical simulations. Particular attention is paid to the modulation of turbulence in the presence of solid particles, sediments, bubbles, drops. The research also includes the development of efficient and accurate numerical algorithms for the study of the aforementioned multiphase flows

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_5 - Fluid mechanics

SDG

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Teaching

Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

Master of Science

Bachelor of Science

  • Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso

Research

Research areas

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Supervised PhD students

  • Chang Xu. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)

Other activities and projects related to research

Luca Brandt research interests are in the general area of multiphase turbulence, particle laden flows, heat and mass transfer, low-Reynolds-number flows and complex fluids, hydrodynamic instabilities and flow control, with focus on the development of theoretical models and high-fidelity numerical simulations. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed journal papers including 1 Annual Review Fluid Mechanics in 2022. He was the recipient of an ERC consolidator grant to study particle suspensions in 2013 and of the “outstanding young researcher” award from the Swedish Research Council in 2014. He had been awarded the International Panetti Ferrari Prize and Golden Medal in the field of applied mechanics, Accademia dei Lincei, Turin, Italy, in 2022.

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