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Alberto Passalacqua

Title(s):

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical & Biological Engineering (Courtesy)
Associate Director Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education (CoMFRE)

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302 Lab of Mechanics
2519 Union Dr.
Ames, IA 50011

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Education

  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 2008
  • M.S., Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 2004

Interest Areas

  • Multiphase fluid dynamics
  • Fluid particle flows
  • Electrostatics in fluid-particle flows
  • Quadrature-based moment methods
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Numerical methods for computational fluid dynamics
  • Development of open-source tools for computational fluid dynamics
  • Uncertainty quantification

Applications of computational fluid dynamics investigated in the group

  • Bubble columns
  • Two- and three-phase stirred tank reactors
  • Fluidized bed reactors (bubbling beds, risers)
  • Multi-inlet vortex reactors to produce nanoparticles
  • Fermenters
  • Electrolyzers
  • Lagoon biodigesters
  • Ventilation in barns

Codes

  • OpenQBMM – An open-source implementation of quadrature-based moment methods

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ORCID (0000-0001-9368-9393)

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