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Alessandro Talamelli

PhD, Associate Prof.
Phone: +46 8 790 76 24
Fax: +46 8 790 76 54
E-mail: talamelli@mech.kth.se
WWW: Personal homepage


Education

M.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, Università di PISA, 1990. Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di MILANO, 1994.

Professional history

Researcher in Fluid Mechanics, Università di PISA, 1995-2001, Associate Professor in Aerodynamics, Università di BOLOGNA, 2001-, Guest Lecturer in Vehicle Aerodynamics, KTH 2003-

Research and Professional Activities

Research in fluid mechanics, in particular experimental studies of transition and turbulence in jets and confined flows

Teaching activity

Leader for the following list of courses.
For the complete list of courses at mechanics, see the course page

CourseProg. TitleStudiehandbok
SG2211  All  Vehicle Aerodynamics [swe] [eng]

Publications

Please note that this list might not be complete. Follow each article link for additional authors.
Year Title
2013 A note on the effect of the separation wall in the initial mixing of coaxial jets
Exp. Fluids 54 1483
2013 Correcting hot-wire spatial resolution effects in third and fourth-order velocity moments in wall-bounded turbulence
Exp. Fluids 54 1496
2012 Effect of the separation wall in the mixing properties of coaxial jets
Proc 9th Int. ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modeling and Measurements (ETMM9), Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun. 6-8 (2012)  1-6
2012 Revival of Classical Vortex Generators Now for Transition Delay
Physical Review Letters 109 
2011 A method to estimate turbulence intensity and transverse Taylor microscale in turbulent flows from spatially averaged hot-wire data
Exp. Fluids 51 693-700
2011 High amplitude streaks in boundary layers: a new passive mechanism for transition delay
4th European Conference for Aerospace Sciences Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 4, 2011 – July 8, 2011 2 1-10
2011 Transition delay by means of base flow modulations
Svenska mekanikdagarna, Göteborg, June 13-15 2011 1 36
2011 A method to correct third and fourth order moments in turbulent flows
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 042023
2011 Effect of the spatial filtering and alignment error of hot-wire probes in a wall-bounded turbulent flow
Meas. Sci. Technol. 22 105408
2011 Experimental analysis of dominant instabilities of coaxial jets
Phys. Fluids 23 024103
2011 “Lock-in” phenomenon in coaxial jets
Journal of Visualization  
2011 Advanced Fluid Research On Drag reduction In Turbulence Experiments - AFRODITE
Proc. of 13th European Turbulence Conference (ETC 13), Poland (Journal of Physics: Conference Series) 318 032007
2011 Base flow modulations for skin-friction drag reduction
Proc. of 13th European Turbulence Conference (ETC 13), Poland (Journal of Physics: Conference Series) 318 032008
2011 Transition delay by means of base flow modulations
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, November 20-22 2011  
2011 On the generation of steady streamwise streaks in flat plate boundary layers
J. Fluid Mech.  
2010 Effect of oblique waves on jet turbulence
Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, IUTAM Bookseries 18 541-544
2010 Experimental study on the use of the wake instability as a passive control in coaxial jet flows
Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, IUTAM Bookseries 18 361-366
2010 CICLoPE - A Large Pipe Facility for Detailed Turbulence Measurements at High Reynolds Number
Progress in Turbulence III, Proc. iTi Conference in Turbulence 2008   
2010 High amplitude steady streaks in flat plate boundary layers
40th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 28 June - 1 July 2010 15 1-14
2010 Main instabilities of coaxial jets
Proc. iTi Conference on Turbulence IV, Bertinoro, Italy, 2010  
2009 CICLoPE - a response to the need for high Reynolds number experiments
Fluid Dynamics Research 41  021407
2009 Turbulence enhancement in coaxial jet flows by means of vortex shedding
Progress in Turbulence III, Springer Proceedings in Physics 131 235-238
2009 The effect of oblique waves on jet turbulence
Progress in Turbulence III, Springer Proceedings in Physics 131 231-234
2009 Challenges in Hot Wire Measurements in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Volume 54, Number 19, Sunday–Tuesday, November 22–24, 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota  54 20
2009 Transition to turbulence delay by means of a passive mechanism
CEAS/KATnet II Conference on Key Aerodynamic Technologies, 12-15 May 2009, Bremen 1 
2009 The diagnostic plot - a new way to appraise turbulent boundary layer data
Advances in Turbulence XII, Springer Proceedings in Physics 132 609-612
2008 Passive control of mixing in a coaxial jet
Proc. of 7th Int. ERCOFTAC Symp. on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements (ETMM7) 2 450-455
2008 On the passive control of the near-field of coaxial jets by means of vortex shedding
2nd Int. Conf. on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Sept 16-19, 2008, Berlin, Germany  1-7
2008 Scaling of mixed structure function in turbulent boundary layers.
Physics of Fluids 20 045101
2008 CICLoPE - A new high Reynolds number pipe flow facility for detailed turbulence measurements.
Proc. XXII ICTAM, 25--29 August 2008, Adelaide, Australia  
2008 The new high Reynolds number pipe flow facility at CICLoPE.
38th Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, 23-26 June 2008, Seattle, Washington AIAA-paper 2008-3966 
2007 A study of swirling turbulent pipe and jet flows
Phys. Fluids 19 035105
2007 The role of vortex shedding in the mixing of coaxial jets
Proc. 19th AIDAA 2007   
2006 Delaying transition to turbulence by a passive mechanism
Physical Review Letters 96 064501
2006 Experimental study of the stabilization of Tollmien-Schlichting waves by finite amplitude streaks
Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Proc. IUTAM Symp., Bangalore, Dec. 13-17. 2004. Ed. Rama Govindarajan, Springer,   p. 299-304
2006 Experimental analysis of transition delay by means of roughness elements
AIAA-06-3528, 36th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, June 5-8, San Francisco  
2006 Using non-normality for passive laminar flow control
Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry, Leganés, Madrid, Spain, July 10-14.  
2006 Transition delay by roughness elements
Whither Turbulence Prediction and Control. March 26-29, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.   
2006 Delaying transition to turbulence by a passive mechanism
6th Euromech Fluid Mech. Conf., June 26-30, 2006. 2 360
2005 Experimental study of the stabilization of Tollmien-Schlichting waves by finite amplitude streaks
Phys. Fluids 17 (5) 054110
2005 Stabilization of Tollmien Schlichting waves by means of roughness generated streaks
Proc. 18th AIDAA 2005  
2005 A heated swirling jet emanating from a fully developed turbulent pipe flow
6th ExHFT  
2005 Transition delay by means of a passive mechanism
58th Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Nov. 20-22, Chicago (IL), USA. Abstract in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 50 
2004 Experimental and theoretical investigation of the non-modal growth of steady streaks in a flat plate boundary layer
Phys. Fluids 16 3627-3638
2004 An active grid for the simulation of atmospheric boundary layers in a wind tunnel
Wind & Structures - An International Journal 7 131-144
2003 Experimental investigation of jets produced by rotating fully developed pipe flow
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 3 3 1217-1222
2003 Experimental analysis of the evolution of steady disturbances in a flat plate boundary layer
Proc. 17th AIDAA 2003  
2003 Experimental analysis of the evolution of steady disturbances in a flat plate boundary layer
In Atti del XVII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica. Rome, Italy, Sept. 15-19.  
2003 Stabilisation of Tollmien-Schlichting waves by streaky base flow
56th Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Nov. 23-25, East Rutherford (NJ), USA. Abstract in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 48 
2002 Experimental investigation of streaky structures in a relaminarizing boundary layer
J. Turbulence 3 1-13
2000 An experimental investigation of the response of hot-wire X-probes in shear flows
Exp. in Fluids 28 425-435

Projects

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Period Title Area
2003- Laminar-Turbulent transition delay by means of passive control Fluid mechanics
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