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Professor Alfredo Pinelli

Professor of Fluid Simulation

School of Science & Technology Department of Engineering

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Professor Alfredo Pinelli CG27, Tait Building [C]
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Professor Pinelli holds a BSc degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Milan Polytechnic, a postgraduate diploma course from the von Karman Institute of fluid dynamics and a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne obtained in 1994. In 1995 he moved to the laboratory of numerical fluid mechanics of the School of Aeronautics of Madrid Polytechnic (ETSIA) having been granted a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. During his period at the ETSIA he has collaborated with Prof. Jiménez in the study of wall turbulence using Direct Numerical Simulation. In 1999 he became an associate professor of applied mathematics at University Carlos III in Madrid.

Since 2001 he has led the Modeling and Computational Lab at CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, Madrid) widening his research interests to the simulation of environmental flows, fluid structure interaction, lattice Boltzmann methods and immersed boundary techniques. Since 2004 he was also appointed as associate professor of applied mathematics at the faculty of mathematics of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. In June 2013, Alfredo Pinelli was appointed as professor of fluid simulation at City University. Prof. Pinelli has participated in several National and European research projects and has extensive collaborations with other researchers in EU, Canada, Japan and US.

Qualifications

  • PhD, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, May 1991 – Dec 1994
  • Diploma Course, Master in Fluid Mechanics, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium, 1989
  • Ingeniere Aeronautico, Graduate studies in aeronautical engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 1988

Postgraduate training

  • Senior Researcher (Marie Curie Fellow), Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Feb 1995 – Jul 2000

Administrative role

  • Associate Dean for Research, School of Science and Technology (City University of London), Jan 2022 – Dec 2025

Employment

  • Professor of Fluid Simulation, City, University of London, 2013 – present
  • Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Complutense University of Madrid, 2004 – 2013
  • Head of the Numerical Simulation Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, 2000 – 2013
  • Associate Professor, Carlos III University of Madrid, 1999 – 2004
  • Senior Researcher (Marie Curie Fellow), Technical University of Madrid, Feb 1995 – Jul 2000

Memberships of committees

  • Reviewer, EPSRC Peer Review College, Apr 2016 – present
  • Member, Projects Evaluation Panel of the Spanish Ministry of Science, 2005 – 2013

Research

Research interests

- Direct numerical simulations
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Solid gas transport modeling
- High performance computing
- Immersed-boundary methods
- Fluid structure interaction
- Aerodynamics

Publications

Publications by category

Book

  • Pinelli, A. (1994). Preconditioned Parallel Algorithms and Spectral Solutions for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Chapters (14)

  • Suardi, C.A., Pinelli, A. and Omidyeganeh, M. (2020). The Effect of the Sweep Angle to the Turbulent Flow Past an Infinite Wing. ERCOFTAC Series (pp. 321–327). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-42821-1.
  • Monti, A., Omidyeganeh, M. and Pinelli, A. (2019). Large-Eddy Simulation of an Open Channel Flow with Submerged Rigid Vegetation. Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation XI (pp. 571–577). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-04914-0.
  • Shahab, M.F., Omidyeganeh, M. and Pinelli, A. (2019). DNS of Separated Low-Re Flow Around a Cambered Aerofoil. Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation XI (pp. 373–380). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-04914-0.
  • Valero-Lara, P., Paz-Gallardo, A., Foster, E.L., Prieto-Matías, M., Pinelli, A. and Jansson, J. (2016). Multicore and Manycore. Innovative Research and Applications in Next-Generation High Performance Computing (pp. 107–158). IGI Global.
  • Valero-Lara, P., Pinelli, A., Favier, J. and Prieto-Matías, M. (2012). Block Tridiagonal Solvers on Heterogeneous Architectures. 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, ISPA 2012, Leganes, Madrid, Spain, July 10-13, 2012 (pp. 609–616). IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 978-1-4673-1631-6.
  • Uhlmann, M. and Pinelli, A. (2010). Direct numerical simulation of vertical particulate channel flow in the turbulent regime. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion (pp. 83–96). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 3-642-02681-8.
  • Uhlmann, M., Kawahara, G. and Pinelli, A. (2009). Travelling waves in a straight square duct. Advances in Turbulence XII (pp. 585–588). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 3-642-03084-X.
  • Sekimoto, A., Pinelli, A., Uhlmann, M. and Kawahara, G. (2009). The effect of coherent structures on the secondary flow in a square duct. Advances in Turbulence XII (pp. 329–332). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 3-642-03084-X.
  • Uhlmann, M., Pinelli, A., Sekimoto, A. and Kawahara, G. (2008). Coherent Structures in Marginally Turbulent Square Duct Flow. IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence (pp. 137–142). Springer Netherlands. ISBN 1-4020-6471-3.
  • Uhlmann, M., Pinelli, A., Sekimoto, A. and Kawahara, G. (2007). Characterisation of Marginally Turbulent Square Duct Flow. Advances in Turbulence XI (pp. 41–43). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 3-540-72603-9.
  • Uhlmann, M. and Pinelli, A. (2006). Performance of various fluid-solid coupling methods for DNS of particulate flow. IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches to Multiphase Flow (pp. 215–223). Springer Netherlands. ISBN 1-4020-4976-5.
  • Jimenez, J. and Pinelli, A. (1999). Dynamics of the Structures of Near Wall Turbulence. IUTAM Symposium on Simulation and Identification of Organized Structures in Flows (pp. 41–49). Springer Netherlands. ISBN 94-010-5944-6.
  • Jiménez, J. and Pinelli, A. (1998). The role of coherent structure interactions in the regeneration of wall turbulence. Advances in Turbulence VII (pp. 155–158). Springer Netherlands. ISBN 94-010-6151-3.
  • Pinelli, A. and Vacca, A. (1994). A new multi-domain algorithm for the spectral solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Numerical methods for the Navier-Stokes equations (pp. 199–206). Vieweg+ Teubner Verlag. ISBN 3-528-07647-X.

Conference papers and proceedings (14)

  • Kim, J.H., Choi, K.S., Lacagnina, G., Joseph, P., Hasheminejad, S.M., Chong, T.P. … Pinelli, A. (2019). Optimization of leading-edge undulation of a NACA 65(12)-10 aerofoil for noise reduction and aerodynamic enhancement.
  • Omidyeganeh, M. and Pinelli, A. (2015). Interaction of flexible filaments with the wake of cylinder at low Reynolds numbers.
  • Omidyeganeh, M. and Pinelli, A. (2015). Interaction of flexible filaments with the wake of cylinder at low Reynolds numbers.
  • Skillen, A., Revell, A., Favier, J., Pinelli, A. and Piomelli, U. (2013). Investigation of wing stall delay effect due to an undulating leading edge: An les study.
  • Otsuki, T., Kawahara, G., Uhlmann, M. and Pinelli, A. (2012). Turbulent puffs in a horizontal square duct under stable temperature stratification.
  • Wu, M., Favier, J. and Pinelli, A. (2011). A fast Lagrangian tracking method capturing finite-size effects in particulate flows.
  • Sekimoto, A., Pinelli, A., Uhlmann, M. and Kawahara, G. (2009). The effect of coherent structures on the secondary flow in a square duct.
  • Uhlmann, M., Kawahara, G. and Pinelli, A. (2009). Travelling waves in a straight square duct.
  • Jiménez, J., Uhlmann, M., Kawahara, G. and Pinelli, A. (1999). Turbulent flow above a porous surface.
  • Jimenez, J. and Pinelli, A. (1998). Turbulence near walls.
  • Jiménez, J. and Pinelli, A. (1998). The autonomous near-wall turbulent region.
  • Jiménez, J. and Pinelli, A. (1997). The near-wall turbulence regeneration cycle.
  • De Pietro, G., Pinelli, A. and Vacca, A. (1996). A parallel implementation of a spectral multi-domain solver for incompressibile Navier-Stokes equations.
  • Pinelli, A., Benocci, C. and Deville, M. (1992). A preconditioning technique for Chebyshev collocated advection diffusion operators.

Journal articles (67)