Professore Associato – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale | Tel.: 050 2217260 – Email: alessandro.mariotti@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"111985","unipi-persone-nome":"Alessandro","unipi-persone-cognome":"Mariotti","unipi-persone-email":"alessandro.mariotti@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"WORK EXPERIENCE
\r\n2025 - present: Associate Professor in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Pisa
\r\n2022 \u2013 2024: Senior Assistant Professor in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Pisa
\r\n2018 \u2013 2021: Junior Assistant Professor in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Pisa
\r\n2018 \u2013 2021: Research Fellow at the University of Pisa
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\r\nEDUCATION
\r\n\u2022 PhD in Engineering (Aerospace Engineering), School of Engineering \u201cLeonardo da Vinci, University of Pisa.
\r\n\u2022 Master Degree cum Laude in Aerospace Engineering, University of Pisa
\r\n\u2022 Bachelor Degree cum Laude in Aerospace Engineering, University of Pisa
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\r\nSCIENTIFIC \/ ACADEMIC POSITIONS - AFFILIATIONS
\r\nHead of the wind tunnel laboratory of the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa (Italy).
\r\nMember of the steering committee of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering, ANIV
\r\nMember of ERCOFTAC, ECCOMAS, APS-DFD
\r\nWinner of the ANIV Award 2018, Italian Association of Wind Engineering, Italy
\r\nChairman of the International Conference INVENTO-2024, 9-11\/9\/2024, Pisa, Italy.
\r\nMember of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference FrontUQ19 (Workshop on Frontiers of Uncertainty Quantification in Fluid Dynamics), 11-13\/9\/2019, Pisa Italy.
\r\nGuest editor of the Special Issue of the international journal \u201cAlgorithms\u201d entitled \u201cMethods and Applications of Uncertainty Quantification in Engineering and Science\u201d.
\r\nReviewer for some of the most important international journals in fluid dynamics (J. Fluid Mechanics, J. Wind Eng. Ind. Aerodyn., Comp. Fluids, Physics of Fluids, Flow Turb. Comb., ...)
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\r\nMAIN RESEARCH PROJECTS \/ ACTIVITIES \/ LABS
\r\nMain research activities include experimental and numerical analysis, control of complex flows, wind tunnel tests, high-fidelity simulations, and aerodynamics optimization. Additionally, the focus extends to uncertainty quantification applied to fluid dynamic problems, wind engineering, unsteady aerodynamics, microfluidics, hemodynamics, thermal management of battery electric vehicles, wind turbines, and combustion processes.
\r\n>15 years of experience in wind tunnel tests, microfluidics, and hemodynamics experiments (utilizing hot-wire anemometry, particle image velocimetry, force and pressure measurements, and flow visualizations).
\r\n>15 years of experience in numerical simulations (DNS, LES, RANS) using proprietary, open-source, and commercial codes, sometimes coupled with chemical reactions, conjugate heat transfer, and fluid-structure interaction.
\r\n> 10 years of experience in uncertainty quantification and stochastic sensitivity analysis.
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\r\nONGOING RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
\r\n- Characterization and control of separated flows, along with the development of innovative methods for drag reduction in bluff bodies.
\r\n- Study of unsteady aerodynamic flows for wind engineering applications.
\r\n- Microfluidic devices for chemical and biomedical applications, involving the design and performance evaluation of micromixers and microreactors. Investigation of devices for microdroplet generation and organs on-chip.
\r\n- Conducting numerical simulations, experiments, and uncertainty quantification studies in hemodynamics.
\r\n- Wind tunnel tests and multiphysics simulations dedicated to thermal management for the battery pack in battery electric vehicles.
\r\n- Research on the dynamic stall of airfoil profiles and the development of wind turbines.
\r\n- Characterization and studies on uncertainty quantification of combustion processes in perforated burners operating under premixed conditions.
\r\n- Application of machine learning and data assimilation techniques to CFD simulations.
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\r\nPUBLICATIONS (Scopus, 9\/2026):
\r\nDocuments (Articles): 93 (65)
\r\nCitations >1700
\r\nh-index: 28
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