Personal Details

Full name Matteo Bernardini

E-mail matteo.bernardini@uniroma1.it

Phone +39 0644585285

Date of Birth 23/05/1982

Place of birth Rome

Citizenship Italian

Gender Male

Spoken Languages Italian, English

ORCID: 0000-0001-5975-3734

Current Position

2019 - Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza, University of Rome.

Previous Positions

2012-19 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza, University of Rome.

2009-12 Research fellow, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza, University of Rome.

Visiting

2016 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas.

2012 CTR summer program 2012, Stanford University.

2010 CTR summer program 2010, Stanford University.

Education

2009 Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Sapienza University of Rome.

2006 MS in Aeronautical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 110/110 cum laude.

2004 BS in Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 110/110 cum laude.

Appointments

2022 Member of the scientific evaluation committee for the UNIPhD Doctoral Programme under the MSCA COFUND scheme.

2021- Member of the Sapienza evaluation committee for the approval of spin off and start up.

2020-21 Reviewer of scientific projects under the MIUR programme BANDO FARE 2020.

2018-19 Member of the evaluation committee for the funding of Fondimpresa projects (“Avviso 4/2017”).

2018 Reviewer of scientific projects under the French National Research Agency (ANR) programme.

2016- Reviewer of computational projects under the ISCRA initiative, funded by CINECA.

Teaching

2019- Aerodynamics (9 CFU), BS in Aerospace Engineering (in Italian).

2016- Compressible flows (3 CFU), MS in Space Engineering (in English).

2013-19 Thermo-Fluid Dynamics (6 CFU), MS in Mechanical Engineering (in Italian).

2013-17 Parallel Computing for scientific applications, Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering.

Awards and Honors

2021 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award (Video V0037)

2021 AIAA Solid Rockets Best Paper Award, AIAA 2021 Propulsion and Energy forum

2015 Article published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (vol 770, pp. 424-441, 2015) selected for discussion in "Focus of Fluids"

Funding and Research Grants (as PI or WP leader)

2022 Technical support activity, "VEGA-HTE Components: cold CFD analysis", funded by AVIO

2021 Technical support activity, "Aerocoustics of space launchers", funded by ESA

2021 POR FESR 2020 "GREEN H2-CFD", Regione Lazio

2019 Technical support activity, "Characterization of cryogenic propellants in tanks under microgravity conditions", funded by ASI

2015 SIR Project "Active control of shockwave/boundary layer interactions", MIUR

2019 Research project "Numerical investigation of flow separation in over-expanded nozzles", Sapienza University

2017 Research project "Characterization of flow dynamics and shock unsteadiness in a dual-bell nozzle", Sapienza University

2014 Research project "Passive control of wall-turbulence", Sapienza University

High-performance computing research grant (as PI)

2021 PRACE 23rd STOMP – Large-scale numerical simulations of Mars supersonic parachute dynamics.

2020 PRACE 21^st LEISURE – Large-scalE numerical simulation of SUpersonic turbulent boundary layers with surface RoughnEss.

2020 Iscra B DWSBLI – DNS and WMLES of shock/wave turbulent boundary layer interactions.

2018 Iscra B TRIS – Turbulent drag Reduction over liquid Infused Surfaces.

2017 Iscra B DENSITy - DirEct Numerical simulation of Shock wave/boundary layer Interaction in the Transitional regime.

2016 Iscra B CuLTURES - ControL of TUrbulent wall-bounded flows at moderate/high REynoldS number.

2015 Iscra B – jACOBI - Active COntrol of shock wave Boundary layer Interaction.

Research interests

Gas dynamics, computational aeroacoustics, low-speed and high-speed turbulent flows, shockwave/boundary-layer interactions, direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulation, boundary-layer transition, particle dispersion in turbulent flows, multiphase flows, superhydrophobic and liquid infused surfaces, aerodynamics of space launchers, solid rocket motors, rocket nozzles. High-performance computing, parallel computations, GPU. Immersed boundary method.

Invited talks

2020-21 School on Numerical methods for Parallel CFD @ Cineca

2015 European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 15-16 Oct 2015, Vinci.

2015 Marine 2015: VI International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, 15-17 June 2015.

2014 Invited talk at workshop “Vortical structures and wall turbulence” at the 70th of Paolo Orlandi, Rome, 19-20 September 2014.

Supervision of Ph.D. students and postdocs

2020- F. Rossetti (Ph.D. student), topic: Cryogenic propellants in tanks under microgravity conditions.

2019- S. Sathyanarayana (Ph.D. student), topic: DNS of supersonic and hypersonic flows over rough walls.

2018- G. Della Posta (Ph.D. student), topic: LES of fluid-structure interaction in wind energy.

2018- M. Cimini (Ph.D. student), topic: High-fidelity numerical simulations of aeroacoustics phenomena in compressible turbulent flows.

2017-20 L. Saccoccio (Ph.D. student), topic: Characterization of flow dynamics in over-expanded nozzles.

2017-19 R. Quadros (Postdoc), topic: Analysis of transitional shock/boundary layer interactions.

2016-18 I. Asproulias (Postdoc), topic: Effects of wall-temperature on shock/boundary layer interactions.

Participation in EU research projects

2012-16 TFAST (FP 7) – Transitional location effect on Shockwave boundary layer interactions.

Summary of scientific achievements (Scopus 31/12/2022)

Products 80

Journal Papers (international) 56

Total citations 2092

H-index 26