Main research interests/activities:

Laboratory activities:

• Plasma-neutral gas flow interactions, systems for gas ionization and plasma generation, flow control and ionic propulsion, with low environmental impact applications (pat.polimi.it ↗).
• Drag reduction techniques in fluid mechanics, with aeronautical applications.
• Bluff body wakes, interaction of wakes, wind engineering applications, design of wind tunnel components.
• Measurements in rarefied gases; low pressure and vacuum systems technology.
• Long scale evolution of free hypersonic jets, with applications to the gasdynamics of astrophysical flows.
• Design and development of electronic and mechanical devices and facilities for laboratory measurements.

Theoretical studies dealing with semi-analytic methods, asymptotic and multiscale methods:

• Scaling models for ionic propulsion in atmosphere.
• Drag reduction models in fluid mechanics.
• Instabilities at low Reynolds numbers.

Further information on research, teaching, theses supervision and industrial collaborations at the "teaching profile" link on this page.