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Alessandro Bottaro

Alessandro Bottaro

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
37
Citations
4664
World Ranking
2433
National Ranking
88

Overview

Alessandro Bottaro is affiliated with the University of Genoa in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a specific focus on computational mechanics and fluid dynamics. Their research spans several key areas, with a notable output in advanced mathematical modeling and heat and mass transfer in porous media.

Their recent publications include a range of topics and venues, highlighting a sustained engagement with fluid mechanics and porous media flow phenomena. Key papers are:

  • Effective boundary conditions at a rough wall: a high-order homogenization approach (2020, Meccanica)
  • Flow of shear-thinning fluids through porous media (2020, Advances in Water Resources)
  • Interfacial conditions between a free-fluid region and a porous medium (2021, International Journal of Multiphase Flow)
  • Upscaled model for unsteady slip flow in porous media (2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • A homogenization approach for buoyancy-induced flows over micro-textured vertical surfaces (2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)

The research topics pursued by Bottaro focus on:

  • Lattice Boltzmann simulation studies
  • Advanced mathematical modeling in engineering
  • Heat and mass transfer in porous media
  • Fluid dynamics and turbulent flows
  • Heat transfer mechanisms
  • Nanofluid flow and heat transfer
  • Combustion and flame dynamics

Frequent collaborators in Bottaro's research include:

  • Essam Nabil Ahmed
  • Giovanni Tanda
  • Sahrish Batool Naqvi
  • Jiasen Wei
  • Jan O. Pralits

The venues where Alessandro Bottaro has published most frequently include:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Meccanica
  • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Bottaro's work is strongly centered in the broader field of engineering with significant contributions to computational mechanics. The subfields of interest include computational mechanics itself, mechanical engineering, computational theory and mathematics, biomedical engineering, and environmental engineering.

Best Publications

  • On the breakdown of boundary layer streaks

    Paul Andersson;Luca Brandt;Alessandro Bottaro;Dan S. Henningson

  • Adjoint Equations in Stability Analysis

    Paolo Luchini;Alessandro Bottaro

  • Optimal perturbations for boundary layers subject to stream-wise pressure gradient

    Peter Corbett;Alessandro Bottaro

  • Görtler vortices: a backward-in-time approach to the receptivity problem

    Paolo Luchini;Alessandro Bottaro

  • The effect of base flow variation on flow stability

    Alessandro Bottaro;Peter Corbett;Paolo Luchini

  • Passive separation control using a self-adaptive hairy coating

    Julien Favier;Antoine Dauptain;Davide Basso;Alessandro Bottaro

  • Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and the Optimal Path to Turbulence in Shear Flows

    Antonios Monokrousos;Alessandro Bottaro;Luca Brandt;Andrea Di Vita

  • Optimal linear growth in swept boundary layers

    Peter Corbett;Alessandro Bottaro

  • Spontaneous symmetry breaking of a hinged flapping filament generates lift.

    Shervin Bagheri;Andrea Mazzino;Alessandro Bottaro

  • Rapid path to transition via nonlinear localized optimal perturbations in a boundary-layer flow

    S. Cherubini;P. De Palma;J.-Ch. Robinet;A. Bottaro

  • Flow over natural or engineered surfaces: an adjoint homogenization perspective

    Alessandro Bottaro

  • Biomimetic spiroid winglets for lift and drag control

    Joel E. Guerrero;Dario Maestro;Alessandro Bottaro

  • Hydrodynamics of ciliary propulsion

    Antoine Dauptain;Julien Favier;Alessandro Bottaro

  • The minimal seed of turbulent transition in the boundary layer

    S. Cherubini;P. De Palma;J.-C. Robinet;A. Bottaro

  • Delaying transition to turbulence in channel flow: revisiting the stability of shear-thinning fluids

    C. Nouar;A. Bottaro;J. P. Brancher

  • Fluid flow over and through a regular bundle of rigid fibres

    Giuseppe A. Zampogna;Alessandro Bottaro

  • Accurate model reduction of transient and forced wakes

    Bernardo Galletti;Alessandro Bottaro;Charles-Henri Bruneau;Angelo Iollo

  • Three-dimensional thermal convection in Czochralski melt

    Alessandro Bottaro;Abdelfattah Zebib

  • Algebraic growth in a Blasius boundary layer: optimal and robust control by mean suction in the nonlinear regime

    Simone Zuccher;Paolo Luchini;Alessandro Bottaro

  • An optimal path to transition in a duct.

    Damien Biau;Alessandro Bottaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Magnaudet
Jacques Magnaudet Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse
Mark Christopher Thompson
Mark Christopher Thompson Monash University
Luca Brandt
Luca Brandt Polytechnic University of Turin
Michel Quintard
Michel Quintard National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
Kerry Hourigan
Kerry Hourigan Monash University
Dan S. Henningson
Dan S. Henningson Royal Institute of Technology
Moshe Matalon
Moshe Matalon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dominique Legendre
Dominique Legendre National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
P. Henrik Alfredsson
P. Henrik Alfredsson Royal Institute of Technology
Andrea Mazzino
Andrea Mazzino University of Genoa

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