Dr Marco Fossati

Senior Lecturer

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Personal statement

Dr. Fossati is Chancellor’s fellow and lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of Strathclyde. His research interests are in the area of multiphysics computational aerodynamics. His expertise is in the field of numerical methods for aerodynamics with a focus on high-speed and non-equilibrium flows, Reduced Basis Methods for transonic regimes and mesh optimization and (re-)generation. At Strathclyde he is a member of the Aerospace Centre of Excellence (ACE) and coordinates the research in computational aerodynamics undertaken in the Laboratory for Future Air-Space Transportation Technologies (FASTT-Lab).

Prior to joining Strathclyde Dr. Fossati was Associate Director of the CFD Laboratory at McGill University in Canada where he currently holds an Adjunct Professor position. He has been visiting researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics from Politecnico di Milano. He is member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, acts in the international advisory committee of the Parallel CFD conference, and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Computational Physics, Physics of Fluids, AIAA Journal, International Journal of Multiphase Flows, Aerospace Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation and the International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Publications

Analysis of transition for a flow in a channel via reduced basis methods: Pascarella Gaetano, Kokkinakis Ioannis, Fossati Marco; Fluids Vol 4 (2019); https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids4040202
Aerodynamic database development for a future reusable space launch vehicle, the Orbital 500R: Stindt Tristan, Merrifield Jim, Fossati Marco, Ricciardi Lorenzo Angelo, Maddock Christie Alisa, West Michael, Kontis Kostantinos, Farkin Bernard, McIntyre Stuart; The International Conference on Flight vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry Missions and Engineering (2019)
Robust multi-objective optimisation of a descent guidance strategy for a TSTO spaceplane: Ricciardi Lorenzo A, Maddock Christie Alisa, Vasile Massimiliano, Stindt Tristan, Merrifield Jim, Fossati Marco, West Michael, Kontis Konstantinos, Farkin Bernard, McIntyre Stuart; International Conference on Flight vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry Missions and Engineering (2019)
Direct and residual error estimation for adaptive reduced basis methods: Fossati Marco, Pascarella Gaetano, Barrenechea Gabriel; 2019 Model Reduction of Complex Dynamical Systems (2019)
A kinetic BGK edge-based scheme including vibrational and electronic energy modes for high-Mach flows: Fossati M, Mogavero A, Herrera-Montojo J, Scoggins JB, Magin T; Computers and Fluids Vol 185, pp. 1-12 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2019.04.003
Characterisation of the eddy dissipation model for the analysis of hydrogen-fuelled scramjets: Hoste JJOE, Fossati M, Taylor IJ, Gollan RJ; Aeronautical Journal Vol 123, pp. 536-565 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2018.169

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Teaching

Engineering Analysis 3 - Computaional Fluid Dynamics
Flight and Space Flight 1
Intro to Open-source CFD

Research interests

Multi-physics computational aerodynamics
Reduced Basis Methods for fluid mechanics
Nonequilibrium aerodynamics
Aerodynamic design
PH mesh adaptivity and (re)generation

Professional activities

Organizer of Minisymposium at ECCOMAS 2020: Participant; 19/7/2020
ATI-InnovateUK event on aerospace: Participant; 7/10/2019
SU2 developers meeting: Participant; 17/9/2018
31st International Symposium on Rarefied Gasdynamics: Participant; 23/7/2018
Organizer of 2 Minisymposia at ECCOMAS 2018: Participant; 11/6/2018
29th International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Organiser; 15/5/2017

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Projects

Robust- and sustainable-by-design ultra-higH aspEct ratio wing and Airframe (RHEA) H2020: Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
Multi-disciplinary modelling of the aerothemodynamically-induced fragmentation of re-entering bodies (MIDGARD): Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
Stardust-R (Stardust Reloaded) H2020 MCSA ITN 2018: Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Fossati, Marco (Co-investigator) Grey, Stuart (Co-investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator) Riccardi, Annalisa (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
High-fidelity computational study of the aerothermodynamic performance of future sustainable access-to-space systems: Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2020

Address

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
James Weir Building

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