Dr Marco Fossati
Reader
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.
Prize And Awards
- Best Paper Award in "Innovation in Smart Cities and Systems"
- Recipient
- 1/9/2022
Publications
- A geometric sensitivity study for the aerodynamics of a strut-braced airframe
- Jones B, Nagy P, Minisci E, Fossati M
- Aerospace Science and Technology Vol 142 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2023.108638
- Characterization of nonequilibrium shock interaction in CO2-N2 flows over double-wedges with respect to Mach number and geometry
- Garbacz C, Morgado F, Fossati M
- Physics of Fluids Vol 35 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0148436
- 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)
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
- ATI-InnovateUK event on aerospace
- Participant
- 7/10/2019
- Aerospace funding and engagement day
- 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
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
Contact
Dr
Marco
Fossati
Reader
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: marco.fossati@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5061