Turbulent and reacting flows
Thermoacoustics, wakes, wind farms, near-wall turbulence and urban dispersion — where the methods meet real data.
Methods are developed against canonical systems where the truth is known — the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation, Kolmogorov flow, low-order thermoacoustic models — and then tested where it is not.
Thermoacoustics. Combustion instabilities in annular combustors, using experimental pressure data from rigs at ETH Zürich and NTNU.
Wakes and wind farms. Bluff-body and cylinder wakes as testbeds for flow reconstruction; wind farm wake estimation and time-resolved wake interaction as ongoing student projects.
Near-wall turbulence. Interpretable reduced-order models for real-time estimation close to the wall.
Urban flows. Inference of turbulence-model parameters for pollutant dispersion in cities, transferable between geometries.
Code and data are released with the papers.
Key publications
- Pérez Cuadrado, M., Cavallazzi, G. M., Nóvoa, A., & Pinelli, A. (2026). A wall-based, interpretable reduced-order model for real-time estimation of near-wall turbulence [Manuscript submitted for publication]. linkresearchsquare.com
- Bombardi, E., Nóvoa, A., Magri, L., & Parente, A. (2026). Transferable inference of turbulence models for urban flows with the parameter-regularised ensemble Kalman filter [Preprint]. arXiv. arXiv2607.03571