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Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)
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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
Scientific branch
(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
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ERC sectors
SDG
Teaching
Teachings
Master of Science
- Multiphase flows: dynamics and modelling. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
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- Grujic, A.; Bhatnagar, A.; Sardina, G.; Brandt, L. (2024)
Collisions among elongated settling particles: The twofold role of turbulence. In: PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, vol. 36. ISSN 1527-2435
Contributo su Rivista - Hosen, Hauna Fathmadinda; Shahmardi, Armin; Brandt, Luca; Solsvik, Jannike (2024)
Dynamics of a single bubble in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids: Experimental and simulation approaches. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW, vol. 174. ISSN 0301-9322
Contributo su Rivista - Takeishi, Naoki; Edoardo Rosti, Marco; Yokoyama, Naoto; Brandt, Luca (2024)
Viscoelasticity of suspension of red blood cells under oscillatory shear flow. In: PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, vol. 36. ISSN 1070-6631
Contributo su Rivista - Tanriverdi, Selim; Cruz, Javier; Habibi, Shahriar; Amini, Kasra; Costa, Martim; Lundell, ... (2024)
Elasto-inertial focusing and particle migration in high aspect ratio microchannels for high-throughput separation. In: MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING, vol. 10. ISSN 2055-7434
Contributo su Rivista - Zamani Salimi, Salar; Scapin, Nicolò; Popescu, Elena-Roxana; Costa, Pedro; Brandt, Luca (2024)
A Volume-of-Fluid method for multicomponent droplet evaporation with Robin boundary conditions. In: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, vol. 514. ISSN 0021-9991
Contributo su Rivista - Agrawal, Vishal; Kulachenko, Artem; Scapin, Nicolò; Tammisola, Outi; Brandt, Luca (2024)
An efficient isogeometric/finite-difference immersed boundary method for the fluid–structure interactions of slender flexible structures. In: COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING, vol. 418. ISSN 0045-7825
Contributo su Rivista - Lu, Meng; Deng, Jian; Mao, Xuerui; Brandt, Luca (2023)
Dynamic Buckling of a Filament Impacted by a Falling Droplet. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 131. ISSN 0031-9007
Contributo su Rivista - Crialesi-Esposito, Marco; Chibbaro, Sergio; Brandt, Luca (2023)
The interaction of droplet dynamics and turbulence cascade. In: COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS, vol. 6. ISSN 2399-3650
Contributo su Rivista - Scapin, Nicolò; Demou, Andreas D.; Brandt, Luca (2023)
Evaporating Rayleigh–Bénard convection: prediction of interface temperature and global heat transfer modulation. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 957. ISSN 0022-1120
Contributo su Rivista - Yousefi, Ali; Costa, Pedro; Picano, Francesco; Brandt, Luca (2023)
On the role of inertia in channel flows of finite-size neutrally buoyant particles. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 955. ISSN 0022-1120
Contributo su Rivista - Mirbod, Parisa; Abtahi, Seyedmehdi; Moradi Bilondi, Abbas; Rosti, Marco Edoardo; Brandt, ... (2023)
Turbulent channel flow of suspensions of neutrally buoyant particles over porous media. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 954. ISSN 0022-1120
Contributo su Rivista - Crialesi-Esposito, Marco; Scapin, Nicolò; Demou, Andreas D.; Rosti, Marco Edoardo; ... (2023)
FluTAS: A GPU-accelerated finite difference code for multiphase flows. In: COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 284. ISSN 0010-4655
Contributo su Rivista - Olad, Peyman; Innings, Fredrik; Crialesi-Esposito, Marco; Brandt, Luca; Håkansson, ... (2023)
Comparison of turbulent drop breakup in an emulsification device and homogeneous isotropic turbulence: Insights from numerical experiments. In: COLLOIDS AND SURFACES. A, PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS, vol. 657. ISSN 0927-7757
Contributo su Rivista - Abdulrazaq, Muhammed; Shahmardi, Armin; Rosti, Marco Edoardo; Brandt, Luca (2023)
Numerical modelling of the extensional dynamics in elastoviscoplastic fluids. In: JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 318. ISSN 0377-0257
Contributo su Rivista - Feneuil, Blandine; Iqbal, Kazi Tassawar; Jensen, Atle; Brandt, Luca; Tammisola, Outi; ... (2023)
Experimental and numerical investigation of bubble migration in shear flow: Deformability-driven chaining and repulsion. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS, vol. 8. ISSN 2469-990X
Contributo su Rivista - Crialesi-Esposito, M.; Boffetta, G.; Brandt, L.; Chibbaro, S.; Musacchio, S. (2023)
Intermittency in turbulent emulsions. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 972. ISSN 0022-1120
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