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Antonio Ficarella

Antonio Ficarella

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
32
Citations
4130
World Ranking
9576
National Ranking
383

Overview

Antonio Ficarella is affiliated with the University of Salento in Italy and has an extensive research portfolio within the field of Engineering, with a total of 138 publications. Their work spans key subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Aerospace Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics prominently cover Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies, Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies, and Advanced Battery Technologies Research. Additional topics include Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure, Vehicle Emissions and Performance, Combustion and Flame Dynamics, and Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Antonio Ficarella have been:

  • Maria Grazia De Giorgi
  • Teresa Donateo
  • Antonella Longo
  • Luciano Strafella
  • Ali Aghazadeh Ardebili

The following publication venues are among those where Antonio Ficarella has published multiple works:

  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • E3S Web of Conferences
  • Energies
  • Aerospace
  • Preprints.org

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Antonio Ficarella include:

  • Off-line and on-line optimization of the energy management strategy in a Hybrid Electric Helicopter for urban air-mobility, 2021, Aerospace Science and Technology
  • Neural Nonlinear Autoregressive Model with Exogenous Input (NARX) for Turboshaft Aeroengine Fuel Control Unit Model, 2021, Aerospace
  • A Modeling Approach for the Effect of Battery Aging on the Performance of a Hybrid Electric Rotorcraft for Urban Air-Mobility, 2020, Aerospace
  • A Methodology for the Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Electric and All-Electric Power Systems for Urban Air Mobility, 2022, Energies
  • Digital Twins of smart energy systems: a systematic literature review on enablers, design, management and computational challenges, 2024, Energy Informatics

Best Publications

  • Error analysis of short term wind power prediction models

    Maria Grazia De Giorgi;Antonio Ficarella;Marco Tarantino

  • Assessment of the benefits of numerical weather predictions in wind power forecasting based on statistical methods

    Maria Grazia De Giorgi;Antonio Ficarella;Marco Tarantino

  • A new approach to calculating endurance in electric flight and comparing fuel cells and batteries

    Teresa Donateo;Antonio Ficarella;Luigi Spedicato;Alessandro Arista

  • Comparison Between Wind Power Prediction Models Based on Wavelet Decomposition with Least-Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

    Maria Grazia De Giorgi;Stefano Campilongo;Antonio Ficarella;Paolo Maria Congedo

  • Comparison between synthetic jets and continuous jets for active flow control: Application on a NACA 0015 and a compressor stator cascade

    M.G. De Giorgi;C.G. De Luca;A. Ficarella;F. Marra

  • Evaluating cavitation regimes in an internal orifice at different temperatures using frequency analysis and visualization

    M.G. De Giorgi;A. Ficarella;M. Tarantino

  • Effects of Pilot Injection Parameters on Combustion for Common Rail Diesel Engines

    Paolo Carlucci;Antonio Ficarella;Domenico Laforgia

  • Numerical analysis of a cross-flow compact heat exchanger for vehicle applications

    E. Carluccio;G. Starace;A. Ficarella;D. Laforgia

  • Automotive application of sol–gel TiO2 thin film-based sensor for lambda measurement

    L. Francioso;D.S. Presicce;A.M. Taurino;R. Rella

  • Effects on combustion and emissions of early and pilot fuel injections in diesel engines

    P Carlucci;A Ficarella;D Laforgia

  • Supercharging system behavior for high altitude operation of an aircraft 2-stroke Diesel engine

    Antonio Paolo Carlucci;Antonio Ficarella;Domenico Laforgia;Alessandro Renna

  • Control of the combustion behaviour in a diesel engine using early injection and gas addition

    A.P. Carlucci;A. Ficarella;D. Laforgia

  • Influence of convective heat transfer modeling on the estimation of thermal effects in cryogenic cavitating flows

    M.G. Rodio;M.G. De Giorgi;A. Ficarella

  • Combustion conditions discrimination properties of Pt-doped TiO2 thin film oxygen sensor

    L. Francioso;D.S. Presicce;P. Siciliano;A. Ficarella

  • Off-line and on-line optimization of the energy management strategy in a Hybrid Electric Helicopter for urban air-mobility

    Teresa Donateo;Claudia Lucia De Pascalis;Luciano Strafella;Antonio Ficarella

  • Image processing for the characterization of flame stability in a non-premixed liquid fuel burner near lean blowout

    Maria Grazia De Giorgi;Aldebara Sciolti;Stefano Campilongo;Antonio Ficarella

  • A diagnostics tool for aero-engines health monitoring using machine learning technique

    Maria Grazia De Giorgi;Stefano Campilongo;Antonio Ficarella

  • Characterization of unsteady cavitating flow regimes around a hydrofoil, based on an extended Schnerr–Sauer model coupled with a nucleation model

    M.G. De Giorgi;D. Fontanarosa;A. Ficarella

  • Investigation of the boundary layer characteristics for assessing the DBD plasma actuator control of the separated flow at low Reynolds numbers

    E. Pescini;F. Marra;M.G. De Giorgi;L. Francioso

  • Improvement of dual-fuel biodiesel-producer gas engine performance acting on biodiesel injection parameters and strategy

    A.P. Carlucci;A. Ficarella;D. Laforgia;L. Strafella

  • Improvement of lean flame stability of inverse methane/air diffusion flame by using coaxial dielectric plasma discharge actuators

    Maria Grazia De Giorgi;Antonio Ficarella;Aldebara Sciolti;Elisa Pescini

  • Optimization of micro single dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator models based on experimental velocity and body force fields

    E. Pescini;D.S. Martínez;M.G. De Giorgi;A. Ficarella

Frequent Co-Authors

Domenico Laforgia
Domenico Laforgia University of Salento
Pietro Siciliano
Pietro Siciliano National Research Council (CNR)
Roberto Rella
Roberto Rella National Research Council (CNR)
Barat Ghobadian
Barat Ghobadian Tarbiat Modares University
Paolo Maria Congedo
Paolo Maria Congedo University of Salento
Gholamhassan Najafi
Gholamhassan Najafi Tarbiat Modares University
Marcello Mastrorilli
Marcello Mastrorilli The Canadian Real Estate Association
Alessandro Sannino
Alessandro Sannino University of Salento
Alfonso Maffezzoli
Alfonso Maffezzoli University of Salento
Mauro Coltelli
Mauro Coltelli National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

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