Phd in ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

email: alessandro.corsini@uniroma1.it
phone: +390644585231
building: 31
room: 27

Alessandro Corsini, Curriculum Vitae

ERC Sectors
PE8_8 Propulsion engineering, e.g. hydraulic, turbo, piston, hybrid engines
PE8_6 Energy processes engineering

PhD in Energy Engineering in 1996, Sapienza University of Rome.
Assistant Professor of Fluid Machineries since October 2000, Sapienza University of Rome.
Visiting researcher and collaborator at TASFM, Rice University Houston, TX, USA.
Associate Professor of Energy Systems since October 2011, Sapienza University of Rome.
Extraordinary Professor, Department of Mechanics and Mechatronics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, July 2018.
Full Professor of Energy Systems, September 2019, Sapienza University of Rome.
Full Professor of Fluid Machineries, October 2021, Sapienza University of Rome.
Chairman of the Board of Professors of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

Memberships
President of Associazione Termotecnica Italiana Sezione Lazio (ATI Lazio) (Italian Association of Applied Thermodynamics and Energy Systems).
Sapienza Research Center on Aerospace Engineering CRAS.
ASME IGTI Turbomachinery Committee member since 2003, Fans & Blowers Technical Committee Chair (2014- 2019)

Activity
Alessandro Corsini received his PhD from the Sapienza University of Rome in 1996, with a PhD thesis on CFD simulation of Francis turbines. Since 1997 is lecturing Thermal Machines and Energy Systems Courses at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has been involved since 1993 in the development of a CFD methods for the prediction of turbulent, incompressible internal flows, with specific emphasis on the development of stabilized formulation for turbomachinery CFD. Alessandro Corsini collaborates with the Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling TAFSM at Rice University, USA, since 2004. Alessandro Corsini is active in the field of industrial turbomachinery and energy systems working on CFD-based design concepts, noise reduction technologies, stall dynamics, control and fault monitoring.
Since 2012, Alessandro Corsini is co-Founder and President of the spin-off company SED Soluzioni per Energia e Diagnostica Srl developing biomimetic fault detection and diagnosis technologies.
Specific areas of interest are:
- Numerical methods for turbomachinery flow simulation
- Numerical methods for particle laden flows and erosion in turbomachinery
- Numerical methods for Fluid-Structure-Interaction in turbomachinery
- RES: Ocean Energy and innovative design of air turbines for OWC system
- RES: Development of large scale Wind Turbine
- Turbomachinery: Advanced design concepts in industrial fans & blowers
- Turbomachinery: Axial and radial turbines
- Rotating machinery: Diagnosis and control of stall and separation.
- Rotating machinery: Passive flow control.

Alessandro Corsini contributed to the organization of Scientific Conference in the field of computational methods and turbomachinery, joining the SAC of CMFF Conference Series in Budapest since 2003 and Turbo Expo serving since 2004 as Reviewer, Session Organizer, Vanguard Chair and Point Contact. Alessandro Corsini served also member of Organizing Committee and Track Leader of the Fan 2012 and Fan 2015 International Conferences on Fan Noise, Technology and Numerical Methods.

Alessandro Corsini is Associate Editor of the IMechE Journal of Power and Energy and member of the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Rotating Machinery, and Periodica Polytechnica.
Associate Editor, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A- Journal of Power and Energy, dal 2015.
Editor, Energy Procedia, 70th Conference of the Italian Thermal Machines Engineering Association, ATI2015.
Editor, Numerical Methods for Flows, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer, 2020.
Guest Editor, Computers & Fluids Special Issue on FEF’17.
Guest Editor, Sustainability, Special Issue on “Sustainable Industry and Innovation in the Industrial IoT Era”, 2021.

He is reviewers of international journals in Energy, Turbomachinery, and Computational Mechanics, and He served as evalutator of International Research Organisations (French-Italian University, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), National Research Foundation (NRF), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong).

Alessandro Corsini is author of more than 200 scientific publications (88 journal publications, 4 book chapters, more than 110 conference proceedings), 11 international patents.

In recognition of the research contributions, Alessandro Corsini has been invited as plenary and keynote speakers of:
Fan 2012 – International Conference on Fan Noise, Technology and Numerical Methods, Senlis, France.
Advances in Computational Mechanics (ACM 2013) — A Conference Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Thomas J.R. Hughes, San Diego, CA, USA.
9th South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics (SACAM2014), Somerset West, South Africa, 14 – 16 January 2014.
FEF 2015 - The 18th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems, Taipei, Taiwan, March 2015.
CMFF’18 – 17th Int. Conference on Modeling Fluid Flows, Budapest, Hungary, September 2018.

Prize
Winner of the 2013 Institution of Mechanical Engineering (IMechE) Donald Julius Groen Prize for best paper given at an IMechE event or published in an IMechE journal relating to the subject of Fluid Machinery during 2012.
ASME IGTI Fans and Blowers Technical Committee, Outstanding Service Award, 2016.
ASME IGTI Fans and Blowers Technical Committee, Best Paper Award, 2017, 2021.


Research Contracts (most preminent 1995-2021)
Design specification for Standard Gas Tubines power plants - FIAT AVIO S.p.A. - Dipartimento di Meccanica e Aeronautica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”.
Energy and Environmental Planning of Rome Municipality - Comune di Roma / ACEA (Energy water Multi-utility) - Istituto di Ricerche Ambiente Italia. Leader of the hydropower team.
Preliminary design of Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plant Fed by Varadero Crude, Sherrit International Corporation (Canada) – Life Srl (Italy).
Component of GSE (Italian Dept of Energy) Inspection Team for Renewable Energy Plants.
Evaluator of Dept of Finance – CSEA for Electric System Research Funds.
GE Oil&Gas Nuovo Pignone Srl supplier code NP: 103122 / GSL: K11270101.
2017, Elettra Investimenti Spa, Modello di analisi ed interpretazione dei parametri di processo per il riconoscimento di guasti e la manutenzione predittiva di impianti per la produzione di energia.
Engie Spa - contract n. 8000297451, 19/08/2019 - PoC Predictive Maintenance in CHP Engines.
Enel Green Power Spa, Wind Turbine Blade Fatigue Prediction, contract n. 1.2019
ERG Spa, 2021, AI-driven prediction of multi-MW wind turbine operations.

Research projects (peer-to-peer evaluation)
2010 - 2013, FP7 European Union- EUROPAID progetto: ICARE- Sostegno alla Costituzione di un Centro di Eccellenza all’Università HU BEI di Pechino.
2011-2013 Progetti di ricerca MATTM PON, Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare, Progetto POSEIDONE Impianto U-OWC e Turbina ad Aria per la produzione di energia elettrica da onde di mare.
2016-2018, European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 654443.
2019-2021, Piano Nazionale della Ricerca Militare (PNRM) - E.F. 2019 - Proposta n. a2018.105 dal titolo “Interfaccia Naturale e Sicura User-oriented per isoLe e Arcipelaghi Energetici - INSULAE”.
2018-2022, BEI-ELENA, Smart District a Scala Urbana Autosufficiente e Resiliente nel Comprensorio Militare del Castro Pretorio, Ministero della Difesa.
2019-2022, UPPER Urban Productive Parks For The Development Of New Related Technologies And Services, EU project on Urban Innovative Actions.


Technology transfer
Patents
1. Corsini, A., Rispoli, F., Romani, G., Piccinini, S., Faggiolati Pumps Spa., International patent application No. MC2007 A 000152, 2007.
2. Corsini A., Rispoli F. and Sheard A.G., A Meridional Fan, Flakt Woods Ltd, Patent Application No. GB 0800582.9, 2008.
3. Corsini A., Bianchi S. and Sheard A.G., Detecting stall in devices, British Pat. Appl. No. GB2468571, 2010.
4. Corsini A., Ruggeri M., Impianto generatore di energia elettrica, Pat. Appl. No. MC2013A000058, 2013.
5. Corsini A., Delibra G. and Sheard A.G., A Fan for Air Movement, Solyvent Flakt AB, Patent Application No. GB 2507493, 2014.
6. Corsini, A. et al., 2014, Joint for modular wind blade and modular wind blade comprising said joint, WO 2016006008 A1, PCT/IT2015/000160, 2014.
8. Corsini et al., Impeller for a pump, 2017, US Patent D776,166.
9. Corsini et al., Impeller for pumps, 2017,US Patent D791,841.
10. Corsini et al., Impeller assembly for centrifugal pumps, 2017, US Patent 20,170,260,992.
11. Corsini et al. M Obuchi, S Kuroiwa, D Sakihama, R Groppo, F Balbo, M Matteazzi, Impeller assembly for centrifugal pumps,US Patent 10,626,880.
Software
10. Corsini, A., Ullucci, G., SDP2 (SDP Squared), SIAE Sezione OLAF, maggio 2014.