Dr Marco Fossati

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Personal statement

Dr. Fossati is Senior 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 high-speed and non-equilibrium flows, modal-based Reduced Order Modeling for aerodynamics, mesh optimization and generation. At Strathclyde he is a member of the Aerospace Centre of Excellence (ACE) and director of the Future Air-Space Transportation Technologies (FASTT). Prior to joining Strathclyde Dr. Fossati was Associate Director of the CFD Laboratory at McGill University in Canada where he 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. Dr. Fossati is a member of the editorial board of Computers and Fluids 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.

Prizes and awards

Best Paper Award in "Innovation in Smart Cities and Systems": Recipient; 1/9/2022

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Publications

A numerical approach to evaluate temperature-dependent peridynamics damage model for destructive atmospheric entry of spacecraft: Peddakotla SA, Yuan J, Minisci E, Vasile M, Fossati M; The Aeronautical Journal Vol 127, pp. 398-427 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2022.69
Kinetic and continuum modeling of high-temperature air relaxation: Gimelshein Sergey F, Wysong Ingrid J, Fangman Alexander J, Andrienko Daniil A, Kunova Olga V, Kustova Elena V, Morgado Fabio, Garbacz Catarina, Fossati Marco, Hanquist Kyle M; Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Vol 36, pp. 870-893 (2022); https://doi.org/10.2514/1.T6462
Adaptive data-driven reduced order modelling for strut-braced ultra-high aspect ratio wing configuration: Fossati Marco, Nagy Peter; 15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (2022)
Multi-fidelity and multi-disciplinary approach for the accurate simulation of atmospheric re-entry: Peddakotla Sai Abhishek, Morgado Fábio, Thillaithevan Dilaksan, O'Driscoll Danielle, Santer Matthew, Maddock Christie, Vasile Massimiliano, Fossati Marco; 73rd International Astronautical Congress 2022 (2022)
Generative optimisation of resilient drone logistic networks: Filippi Gianluca, Vasile Massimiliano, Patelli Edoardo, Fossati Marco; 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2022 - Conference Proceedings IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2022 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2022 - Conference Proceedings (2022); https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC55065.2022.9870306
Multi-layer resilience optimisation for next generation drone logistic networks: Filippi Gianluca, Patelli Edoardo, Vasile Massimiliano, Fossati Marco; European Safety and Reliability Conference (2022)

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Teaching

Engineering Analysis - Computational Fluid Dynamics
Flight and Space Flight
Intro to Open-source CFD
Mechanical Engineerign Principles

Research interests

Multi-physics non-equilibrium computational aerodynamics
Data-driven Reduced Basis/Order Methods for fluid mechanics
Aerothermodynamics of atmospheric entry
Aerodynamic design of next-generation aircraft and UAVs
Mesh adaptivity and (re)generation

Professional activities

Organizer of Minisymposium at ECCOMAS 2020: Participant; 19/7/2020
Aerospace funding and engagement day: Participant; 7/10/2019
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

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Projects

INtegration and Digital demonstration of low-emission aIrcraft technoloGies and airport Operations (INDIGO) (Horizon Europe CL5): Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Jones, Catherine (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2026
Data-driven aErothermal and thermomeChanical mOdelling for Destructive re-Entry: Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
Care & Equity - Logistics UAS Scotland Phase 3 (CAELUS 2) (Future Flight Challenge): Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Akartunali, Kerem (Co-investigator) Cashmore, Michael (Co-investigator) Irvine, James (Co-investigator) MacBryde, Jillian (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2024
Breaking up is never easy: Fast determination of satellite re-entry and fragmentation ( NSTP): Maddock, Christie (Principal Investigator) Fossati, Marco (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator); 15-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
Urban and rural UAS-enabled health-care over Scotland CAELUS (ex URANOS): Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Akartunali, Kerem (Co-investigator) Burt, Graeme (Co-investigator) Cashmore, Michael (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2022
Robust- and sustainable-by-design ultra-higH aspEct ratio wing and Airframe (RHEA) H2020: Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator); Robust- and sustainable-by-design ultra-high aspect ratio wing and airframe; 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023

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