Stanford life

Apple store on University Avenue

Stanford campus

We had a wonderful time in Palo Alto working with Juan J. Alonso, Francisco Palacios and Thomas Economon from Stanford University on the extension of SU2 to deal with non-ideal compressible-fluid flows, together with Piero Colonna, Matteo Pini and Salvo Vitale from TU Delft.

Working hard in Plzen

ESCO 2014 Conference in Plzen, CZ

Inaugural lecture of prof. Piero Colonna

On May 16th, prof. Piero Colonna gave his inaugural lecture at the Senaatszaal of the Aula, in Delft, as Full Professor of the Chair of Propulsion and Power of the Aerospace Faculty.

You can watch the video of the ceremony here.

Congratulations Piero! 

Visit of Dr. Matteo Pini and of Salvo Vitale

Matteo and Salvo from TUDelft will visit on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of June to initiate the collaboration on SU2 and prepare our visit to Stanford next July.

Seminar of prof. Tony Arts

Prof. Tony Arts, head of the Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, will give a lecture on Aerodynamics of low pressure turbines.

Location: Meeting Room of the Energy Dept. at 14.30 on the 21st of May.

CREALab Monday Morning Meeting (C3M)

Today we had the first CREALab Monday Morning Meeting (C3M) in the meeting room of the Department of Aerospace Science & Technology.

We brainstormed about the overall CREALab organization, the team composition and the lab scope.

Next meeting we'll be next Monday, the 12th, at 10 in the meeting room of the Department of Aerospace Science & Technology.

PhD selection: deadline May 23rd!

Online applications for PhD grants are now open.
Check the details at:
http://www.dottorato.polimi.it/entra-al-dottorato/concorso-di-ammissione-e-borse-di-studio/bandi/bando-xxx-ciclo-dei-corsi-di-dottorato-20142015

CREA Lab and Docear

The CREA Lab adopted Docear (www.docear.org) as its brainstorming and data mapping tool. Docear includes the JabRef bibliography and the FreePlane mind-mapping software.

Collaboration with Stanford University on SU2

Alberto and Giulio will visit Stanford University in July to initiate a collaboration with the team of prof. J. Alonso (http://adl.stanford.edu/people/jjalonso.html) of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The goal of the visit is to couple the Stanford code SU2 (http://su2.stanford.edu/) with real-gas thermodynamics for ORC applications.

Schedule: Giulio (6-26/7), Alberto (13-21/7)

Research Assistant position @CREALab

The CREALAb is looking for a Research Assistant on
   Analysis and preliminary desing of a gasdynamic nozzle for mixture of fluids with high molecular complexity in the proximity of the liquid-vapor saturation curve
for a one-year period. Details can be found at the address http://bandi.miur.it/bandi.php/public/fellowship/id_fellow/78309

The deadline for applications is May, the 17th.

Research Assistant position @CREALab

The CREALAb is looking for a Research Assistant on
   Numerical simulation of dense gas flows using flow solver for Chimera grids

for a one-year period.  Details can be found at the address http://bandi.miur.it/bandi.php/public/fellowship/id_fellow/78308

The deadline for applications is May, the 17th.

NSHOCK project kick-off

The flagship project of the CREA Laboratory, the ERC Consolidator Grant NSHOCK, officially started today!

The goal is to produce a nonclassical rarefaction shock wave in a steady nozzle flow of a mixture of siloxane fluids.