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Overview

Piero Colonna is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with significant focus on Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics as subfields. The main topics covered in their work include Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies, Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization, Combustion and Flame Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics, Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory, Advanced Thermodynamic Systems and Engines, and Heat Transfer and Optimization.

Their recent publications reflect a consistent engagement with fluid dynamics, turbomachinery, and thermal systems. Notable papers include:

  • "Nonideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics of Dense Vapors and Supercritical Fluids" (2024), published in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Multistage Turbomachinery Design Using the Discrete Adjoint Method Within the Open-Source Software SU2" (2020), published in Journal of Propulsion and Power
  • "The Effect of Size and Working Fluid on the Multi-Objective Design of High-Speed Centrifugal Compressors" (2022), published in International Journal of Refrigeration
  • "Fully-turbulent adjoint method for the unsteady shape optimization of multi-row turbomachinery" (2020), published in Aerospace Science and Technology
  • "Influence of build angles on thin-wall geometry and surface texture in laser powder directed energy deposition" (2023), published in Materials & Design

Piero Colonna has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Carlo De Servi, Matteo Pini, Andrea Giuffre', Nitish B. Chandrasekaran, and B. Mercier. The number of joint publications with these coauthors indicates ongoing research partnerships across related topics.

Their work has appeared in a variety of scholarly venues, with multiple contributions to the:

  • Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Experiments in Fluids
  • Proceedings

This profile illustrates a research career with a strong interdisciplinary approach, combining fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and optimization techniques. Their publication record indicates engagement with both theoretical developments and applied technologies relevant to propulsion, refrigeration, and advanced engineering systems.

Best Publications

  • Organic Rankine Cycle Power Systems: From the Concept to Current Technology, Applications, and an Outlook to the Future

    Piero Colonna;Emiliano Casati;Carsten Trapp;Tiemo Mathijssen

  • Industrial trigeneration using ammonia–water absorption refrigeration systems (AAR)

    Piero Colonna;Sandro Gabrielli

  • Multiparameter equations of state for selected siloxanes

    P. Colonna;N.R. Nannan;A. Guardone;E.W. Lemmon

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics of a Radial Compressor Operating With Supercritical CO2

    Rene Pecnik;Enrico Rinaldi;Piero Colonna

  • Real-gas effects in Organic Rankine Cycle turbine nozzles

    Piero Colonna;John Harinck;Stefano Rebay;Alberto Guardone

  • Dynamic modeling of steam power cycles. Part I-Modeling paradigm and validation

    P. Colonna;H. van Putten

  • Dynamic modeling of steam power cycles. Part II -Simulation of a small simple Rankine cycle system

    H. van Putten;P. Colonna

  • Computational Study of a High-Expansion Ratio Radial Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine Stator

    John Harinck;Teemu Turunen-Saaresti;Piero Colonna;Stefano Rebay

  • Multiparameter equations of state for siloxanes: [(CH3)3-Si-O1/2]2-[O-Si-(CH3)2]i=1,…,3, and [O-Si-(CH3)2]6

    P. Colonna;N.R. Nannan;A. Guardone

  • Molecular interpretation of nonclassical gas dynamics of dense vapors under the van der Waals model

    P. Colonna;A. Guardone

  • Dynamic Modeling of Organic Rankine Cycle Power Systems

    Francesco Casella;Tiemo Mathijssen;Piero Colonna;Jos van Buijtenen

  • Thermal energy storage for solar-powered organic Rankine cycle engines

    E. Casati;E. Casati;A. Galli;P. Colonna

  • Centrifugal Turbines for Mini-Organic Rankine Cycle Power Systems

    Emiliano Casati;Emiliano Casati;Salvatore Vitale;Matteo Pini;Giacomo Persico

  • Performance improvement of a radial organic Rankine cycle turbine by means of automated computational fluid dynamic design

    John Harinck;David Pasquale;Rene Pecnik;Jos van Buijtenen

  • Siloxanes : A new class of candidate Bethe-Zel’dovich-Thompson fluids

    P. Colonna;A. Guardone;N. R. Nannan

  • Dense Gas Thermodynamic Properties of Single and Multicomponent Fluids for Fluid Dynamics Simulations

    Piero Colonna;Paolo Silva

  • Dynamic modeling of IGCC power plants

    F. Casella;P. Colonna

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics of a Radial Compressor Operating With Supercritical CO2

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  • Numerical simulation of dense gas flows on unstructured grids with an implicit high resolution upwind Euler solver

    P. Colonna;S. Rebay

  • Assessment of Waste Heat Recovery From a Heavy-Duty Truck Engine by Means of an ORC Turbogenerator

    Wolfgang Lang;Piero Colonna;Raimund Almbauer

  • The influence of molecular complexity on expanding flows of ideal and dense gases

    J. Harinck;A. Guardone;P. Colonna

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Guardone
Alberto Guardone Polytechnic University of Milan
André Bardow
André Bardow ETH Zurich
Juan J. Alonso
Juan J. Alonso Stanford University
Bendiks Jan Boersma
Bendiks Jan Boersma Delft University of Technology
Gianluca Iaccarino
Gianluca Iaccarino Stanford University
Joachim Gross
Joachim Gross University of Münster
Fredrik Haglind
Fredrik Haglind Technical University of Denmark
Ricardo Martinez-Botas
Ricardo Martinez-Botas Imperial College London
Eric W. Lemmon
Eric W. Lemmon National Institute of Standards and Technology

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