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Italy
2026
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sweden
2022

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
66
Citations
13605
World Ranking
498
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Luca Brandt is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy and specializes in engineering with a focus on computational mechanics and fluid dynamics. Their research encompasses several subfields including computational mechanics, ocean engineering, biomedical engineering, fluid flow and transfer processes, and materials chemistry.

Their work mainly addresses topics related to particle dynamics in fluid flows, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, lattice Boltzmann simulation studies, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, granular flow and fluidized beds, rheology and fluid dynamics studies, and fluid dynamics and mixing.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Luca Brandt include:

  • Particle-Laden Turbulence: Progress and Perspectives, 2021, published in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • A volume-of-fluid method for interface-resolved simulations of phase-changing two-fluid flows, 2020, published in Journal of Computational Physics
  • Effects of surface nanostructure and wettability on pool boiling: A molecular dynamics study, 2021, published in Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University)
  • Modulation of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in emulsions, 2022, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Coherent structures in the turbulent channel flow of an elastoviscoplastic fluid, 2020, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Brandt include:

  • Marco Edoardo Rosti
  • Outi Tammisola
  • Nicolò Scapin
  • Marco Crialesi-Esposito
  • Pedro Costa

Their publications appear regularly in key venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Computational Physics.

Brandt's contributions also extend to book publications, including involvement in the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where they contributed to the book "EUROMECH Colloquium 621 'Transport and Fluxes in Dispersed Turbulent Flows' - Book of Abstracts" in 2021.

Best Publications

  • On the breakdown of boundary layer streaks

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

  • Transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence

    Luca Brandt;Philipp Schlatter;Dan S. Henningson

  • Steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations by selective frequency damping

    Espen Åkervik;Luca Brandt;Dan S. Henningson;Jéro^me Hœpffner

  • Particle-Laden Turbulence: Progress and Perspectives

    Luca Brandt;Luca Brandt;Filippo Coletti

  • Turbulent channel flow of dense suspensions of neutrally buoyant spheres

    Francesco Picano;Wim-Paul Breugem;Luca Brandt

  • Delaying transition to turbulence by a passive mechanism.

    Jens H. M. Fransson;Alessandro Talamelli;Luca Brandt;Carlo Cossu

  • Self-propulsion in viscoelastic fluids: Pushers vs. pullers

    Lailai Zhu;Eric Lauga;Luca Brandt

  • Experimental study of the stabilization of Tollmien–Schlichting waves by finite amplitude streaks

    Jens H. M. Fransson;Luca Brandt;Alessandro Talamelli;Carlo Cossu

  • Experimental and theoretical investigation of the nonmodal growth of steady streaks in a flat plate boundary layer

    Jens H. M. Fransson;Luca Brandt;Alessandro Talamelli;Carlo Cossu

  • Stabilization of Tollmien–Schlichting waves by finite amplitude optimal streaks in the Blasius boundary layer

    Carlo Cossu;Luca Brandt

  • Wall accumulation and spatial localization in particle-laden wall flows

    G. Sardina;Philipp Schlatter;Luca Brandt;F. Picano

  • On streak breakdown in bypass transition

    Philipp Schlatter;Luca Brandt;H. C. de Lange;Dan S. Henningson

  • Instability and sensitivity of the flow around a rotating circular cylinder

    Jan O. Pralits;Luca Brandt;Flavio Giannetti

  • Input-output analysis, model reduction and control of the flat-plate boundary layer

    Shervin Bagheri;Luca Brandt;Dan S. Henningson

  • On Tollmien–Schlichting-like waves in streaky boundary layers

    Carlo Cossu;Luca Brandt

  • The lift-up effect : The linear mechanism behind transition and turbulence in shear flows

    Luca Brandt

  • Low-Reynolds-number swimming in a capillary tube

    Lailai Zhu;Eric Lauga;Luca Brandt

  • Analysis of Fluid Systems: Stability, Receptivity, SensitivityLecture notes from the FLOW-NORDITA Summer School on Advanced Instability Methods for Complex Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013

    Peter J. Schmid;Luca Brandt

  • Transition of streamwise streaks in zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers

    Luca Brandt;Dan Stefan Henningson

  • Global three-dimensional optimal disturbances in the Blasius boundary-layer flow using time-steppers

    Antonios Monokrousos;Espen Åkervik;Luca Brandt;Dan S. Henningson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan S. Henningson
Dan S. Henningson Royal Institute of Technology
Philipp Schlatter
Philipp Schlatter Royal Institute of Technology
Tamer A. Zaki
Tamer A. Zaki Johns Hopkins University
Eric Lauga
Eric Lauga University of Cambridge
Carlo Massimo Casciola
Carlo Massimo Casciola Sapienza University of Rome
Andrea Mazzino
Andrea Mazzino University of Genoa
Rodrigo Caballero
Rodrigo Caballero Stockholm University
Lee Karp-Boss
Lee Karp-Boss University of Maine
Daniele Iudicone
Daniele Iudicone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

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