Hermes Scandelli

Working across a spectrum of altitudes, ranging from high altitude (Sparta) to low altitude (TAU), I conduct detailed examinations of heat flux and shear

Numerous technologies in development rely on porous materials: heat exchangers for solar concentrators, biofuel production processes, new generation energy storage as fuel cells and supercapacitors, space vehicle heat shields, etc. Chemical engineers and researchers at the forefront of their own fields and leading 21st century innovation would greatly benefit from fundamental developments in heat and mass transfer to reinforce application-specific phenomenological models. The objective of this work is to contribute to the development of a generic theoretical and numerical framework for high temperature applications. The primary applications targeted are the thermal

International internship with the purpose to prepare the master thesis. The work has been mainly focused on the development of an ablation model for atmospheric entry flows in the framework of a particle based solver. In particular, the attention has been paid on space debris entering in the atmosphere, and analysis were conducted with two particle based solvers: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics software in order to solve the Navier Stokes equations, and a DSMC code to face the Boltzmann equation.