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Luca Brandt

Professor
Phone: +46 8 790 68 70
Fax: +46 8 20 51 31
E-mail: luca@mech.kth.se
WWW: Personal homepage


Education

Laurea in Ingegneria Meccanica (M.Sc Mechanical Engeneering), University of Rome "La Sapienza" 1997 Teknologie Licentiate 2001, KTH Mechanics. Teknologie Doctor 2003, KTH Mechanics.

Professional history

Research Associate (sv. Forskarassistent), KTH Mechanics, 2004 Docent in Fluid Mechanics, 2008 Rådforskare, 2008, Associate Professor 2009, Professor 2012

Research and Professional Activities

Research on bio and complex flows, hydrodynamics stability, control and sensitivity

Teaching activity

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

CourseProg. TitleStudiehandbok
SG2222  All  Micro fluid flows [swe] [eng]
SG2221  Graduate  Wave Motions and Hydrodynamic Stability [swe] [eng]
SG2225  All  Strömningsmekanik fortsättningskurs [swe] [eng]

Publications

Please note that this list might not be complete. Follow each article link for additional authors.
Year Title
2013 Low-Reynolds number swimming in a capillary tube
Journal of Fluid Mechanics  
2012 Self-propulsion in viscoelastic fluids: pushers vs. pullers
Physics of Fluids 24 051902
2012 Swept wing boundarylayer receptivity to localized surface roughness
J. Fluid Mech. 711  516-544
2012 Self-similar transport of inertial particles in a turbulent boundary layer
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 706 
2012 Wall accumulation and spatial localization in particle-laden wall flows
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 699 
2012 Spatial linear disturbances in a plane wall jet
Physics of Fluids 24 054104
2012 Micropropulsion and microrheology in complex fluids via symmetry breaking
Phys. Fluids 24 103102
2011 Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the optimal path to turbulence in shear flows
Physical Review Letters 106  134502
2011 Receptivity, instability and breakdown of Görtler flow
Journal of Fluid Mechancis 682 362-396
2011 Feedback control of three-dimensional optimal disturbances using reduced-order models
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 677 63-102
2011 Locomotion by tangential deformation in a polymeric fluid
Physical Review E 83 
2011 Modal and non-modal stability of particle-laden channel flow
Phys. Fluids 23 064110
2011 Numerical study of boundary-layer receptivity on a swept wing
AIAA Paper 2011-3294 
2011 Modelling roughness and receptivity in three-dimensional boundary-layers
Proceedings of the 7th TSFP conference  
2011 Excitation of cross-flow vortices by surface roughness on a swept wing
Proceedings CASI AERO 2011, Montreal, Canada   
2011 Entropy generation in a boundary layer transitioning under the influence of freestream turbulence
J. Fluids Eng. 133 061203
2011 Large-scale accumulation patterns of intertial particles in wall-bounded turbulent flows
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 86 519-532
2011 Effect of base flow variation on non-modal stability
J. Fluid Mech. 687 503-528
2011 Secondary threshold amplitudes for sinuous streak breakdown
Phys. Fluids 23 074103
2010 Transition to turbulence in the boundary layer over a smooth and a rough swept plate exposed to free-stream turbulence
J. Fluid Mech. 646 297-325
2010 Receptivity to free-stream vorticity of flow past a flat plate with elliptic leading edge
J. Fluid Mech. 653 245-271
2010 Large-scale accumulation patterns of inertial particles in wall-bounded turbulent flows
6th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer Rome, Italy, September 14-18, 2009  
2010 Instability and sensitivity of the flow around a rotating circular cylinder
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 650 513-536
2010 Model reduction of the nonlinear complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
SIAM J. App. Dyn. Sys. 9(4) 1284-1302
2010 Minimal perturbations in transitional plane Couette flow
Physical Review E 82 026316
2010 Instability and sensitivity of the flow around a rotating circular cylinder
J. Fluid Mech. 650 513-536
2010 Feedback Control of Boundary Layer Bypass Transition: Comparison of a numerical study with experiments
AIAA Journal 48 (8) 1848-1851
2010 Global three-dimensional optimal disturbances in the Blasius boundary-layer flow using time-steppers
 650 181-214
2010 Numerical study of the stabilisation of boundary-layer disturbances by finite amplitude streaks
Int. J. Flow Control 2 259-288
2009 Receptivity mechanisms in three-dimensional boundary-layer flows
J. Fluid Mech. 618 209-241
2009 Input-output analysis, model reduction and control of the flat-plate boundary layer
J. Fluid Mech. 620 263-298
2009 Matrix-free methods for the stability and control of boundary layers
AIAA Journal 47 1057-1068
2009 DNS of a spatially developing turbulent boundary layer with passive scalar transport
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 30(5) 916-929
2009 Feedback control of boundary layer bypass transition: experimental and numerical progress
47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL  
2009 The Spectral Element Approach for Receptivity Studies of Flow Past a Flat Plate with Elliptic Leading Edge
Proceedings AERO 09 13th CASI Aeronautics Conference, Kanata, Canada  
2009 Experimental and numerical flow control of bypass transition
6th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, November 2009, Sendai, Japan  
2009 Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks
Proc. Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009  355-360
2009 Entropy generation rate in turbulent spots in a boundary layer subject to free stream turbulence
Proc. Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009  557-560
2009 Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks
Advances in Turbulence XII, Proc. 12th EUROMECH ETC, Sept. 7-10, 2009, Marburg, Germany  151-154
2009 Flow past a plate with elliptic leading edge: layer response to free-stream vorticity
Proceedings of the Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009  565-568
2009 Linear control of 3D disturbance on a flat-plate
Proceedings of the Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009 18 373-378
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 
2008 DNS and LES of estimation and control of transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 29, Issue 3 841-855
2008 Streak interactions and breakdown in boundary layer flows
Phys. Fluids 20, 024107 1-16
2008 Stochastic approach to the receptivity problem applied to bypass transition in boundary layers
Phys. Fluids 20, 024108 1-4
2008 Global optimal disturbances in the Blasius flow using time-steppers
  
2008 Input-output analysis and control of spatially developing shear flows
AIAA Paper 2008-4099  
2008 On streak breakdown in bypass transition
Phys. Fluids 20 101505
2008 DNS of three-dimensional turbulent boundary layers
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VII  
2008 DNS of a turbulent boundary layer with passive scalar transport
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VII  329-335
2007 Numerical studies of the instability and breakdown of a boundary-layer low-speed streak
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids 26 64-82
2007 Numerical study on the stabilisation of Tollmien-Schlichting waves by finite amplitude streaks
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 5 2 849-854
2007 The effect of free-stream turbulence on growth and breakdown of Tollmien-Schlichting waves
Advances in Turbulence XI, Proceedings of the eleventh European Turbulence Conference  179-181
2007 Receptivity to Roughness and Vortical Free-Stream Modes
Advances in Turbulence XI, Proceedings of the eleventh European Turbulence Conference 117 29-31
2007 The effect of the sweep angle on the turbulent separation bubble on a flat plate
Advances in Turbulence XI, Proceedings of the eleventh European Turbulence Conference  230-232
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 Steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations by selective frequency damping
Phys. Fluids 18 068102
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 Numerical studies of streak instability in boundary layers
Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Proc. IUTAM Symp., Bangalore, Dec. 13-17. 2004. Ed. Rama Govindarajan, Springer,   121-126
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 Transient growth on boundary layer streaks
J. Fluid Mech. 537 91--100
2005 Stabilization of Tollmien Schlichting waves by means of roughness generated streaks
Proc. 18th AIDAA 2005  
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 On Tollmien-Schlichting-like waves in streaky boundary layers
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids 23 815-833
2004 Transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence
J. Fluid Mech. 517 167-198
2004 Linear feedback control of perturbations developing in a boundary layer under free-stream turbulence
Advances in Turbulence X, Proceedings of the tenth European turbulence conference  767-770
2003 On the convectively unstable nature of optimal streaks in boundary layers
J. Fluid Mech. 485 221-242
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 Weakly nonlinear analysis of boundary layer receptivity to free-stream disturbances
Phys. Fluids 14 1426-1441
2002 Transition of streamwise streaks in zero presure gradient boundary layers
J. Fluid Mech. 472 229-262
2002 Stabilization of Tollmien-Schlichting waves by finite amplitude optimal streaks in the Blasius boundary layer
Phys. Fluids 14, (8) L57-L60
2002 Numerical simulations of transition in a boundary layer under free-stream turbulence
Advances in Turbulence IX, Proc. IX European Turbulence Conference, Southampton 2002  17-20
2001 On the breakdown of boundary layer streaks
J. Fluid Mech. 428 29-60
2000 Direct numerical simulations of growth and breakdown of streamwise streaks in flat-plate boundary layer
Proc. 5th Congress Italian Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics  610-613
2000 Secondary instability of streaks in boundary layers
Advances in Turbulence VIII. (2000) Proc. 8th European Turbulence Conference, Barcelona, Spain  141-144

Internal reports

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Year Title Type
2003 Numerical studies of bypass transition in the Blasius boundary layer Doctoral thesis
2001 Study of generation, growth and breakdown of streamwise streaks in a Blasius boundary layer Licentiate thesis

Projects

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Period Title Area
2003- Laminar-Turbulent transition delay by means of passive control Fluid mechanics
1994- Boundary layer transition - Theory and DNS Fluid mechanics
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