Fabrizio Tessicini

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Fabrizio Tessicini

Cfd Formula one engineer

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  • oxforf
  • United Kingdom

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Personal information

  • Wants
    cfd, formula one, wind energy, siting, optimization, fluid dynamics, turbulence
  • Haves
    cfd
  • Interests
    sailing, formula one
  • Organizations
    aidaa, euromech

Professional experience (9 years, 3 months)

  • Jan 2008 - present

    (4 years, 5 months)

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  • Jan 2010 - present

    (2 years, 5 months)

    senior cfd engineer

    scuderia toro rosso, http://www.redbullf1.com

    Industry: Automotive

  • Jan 2003 - Oct 2007

    (4 years, 10 months)

    Industrial Research Engineer

    Imperial College, http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/tfms/people/f.tessicini

    Industry: Academia

  • Employment status
    Employee

Educational background

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
    La sapienza

    Meccanica, Phd,Dottorato

    Computational Fluid Dynamics • Featured Coursework: Numerical Analysis, Experimental Fluid Dynamics (Hot wire anem.,PIV and LDV). • Concentrations in: Computational Fluid Mechanics. • Ph.D. thesis title: “Wall models for large eddy simulation using immersed boundaries method.” • Supervisor: Rober

  • Sep 1993 - Sep 1999
    La sapienza

    Ingegneria Aeronautica, Laurea

    • Featured Coursework: propulsion, composite materials. • Concentrations in: Aerodynamics. • Master Thesis on CAD interface for Immersed Boundaries. Supervisor: Paolo Orlandi.

  • Languages
    Italian (First language), English (Fluent), French (Basic knowledge), Spanish (Basic knowledge)

About me

Fabrizio Tessicini
Address: Contacts:
Cleveley Lakeside Cottage 0044 7902700176
OX7 4DX fabriziotessicini@gmail.com
Oxfordshire
 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

2008 – present ING Renault Formula one Team. Oxford,UK
CFD Engineer.

 
I am Project leader for the development of an innovative automatic optimisation system for the aerodynamic design of 2009 formula one car. Based on the new 38 TeraFlops Cluster machine, the virtual wind tunnel is able to find the optimal shape of the car using a modified version of Navier Stokes equations.
I am an expert in turbulence modelling (see publications at the end) and I have done a substantial work in the development of the new in-house code that the company is using. I am a daily user of ANSA,CATIA V5 and StarCCM+. I also established a strong cooperation with Cd-Adapco for the implementation of the new transition model that Adapco is going to commercialize.
 
2003 – 2007 Imperial College Of Science Technology And Medicine London, UK
Research Associate, department of Aeronautics.
Turbulent flow simulation and modelling group (Prof. Michael Leschziner)
 
Imperial College is one among the top ranked engineering college in UK. It is established with various centers of excellences with high-end computational facilities utilized for R&D activities. Established CAD/CAM division supports industrial and Formula One consultancy activities.
I worked on the following projects:
 
PROJECT: Cadwie
CLIENT: AIRBUS UK
SCOPE: Aircraft noise reduction during the landing. CFD simulation of landing gear
The project focuses around a core of research projects in five strands: Airframe, Engines, Integration, Operations and UK Economy. The work carried out at Imperial and at Airbus has included the implementation of high fidelity CFD models able to predict the noise levels produced by different parts of conventional aircraft. Together with Airbus UK, we are looking at ways to reduce noise at take-off and landing.
I am involved in the aerodynamic design and simulation of the landing gear . The main tasks include:
• Modify an existing CFD code (DLR-TAU ) to be able to perform unsteady hybrid LES/RANS simulation, maintaining the technical CFD leadership of Airbus.
• Analysis and design of new landing gear using semi-structured CFD meshes.
• Industrialisation, support and expertise on high fidelity CFD models developed by the Imperial College.
 
PROJECT: Flaviir
CLIENT: BAE system. EPSRC
SCOPE: To develop technologies for low cost UAV without conventional control surfaces
The present study applies the latest numerical simulation techniques to the flows over highly swept wings. Large-eddy simulation (LES) with hybrid RANS models have been performed to predict the flow structures (vortex separation and wake) and revealed the key physical mechanisms behind them. The computational framework of this study is based on the Navier-Stokes code originally developed during my post-doc and have been complemented with experimental data.
 
PROJECT: DESider
CLIENT: EADS (EUROPEAN AERONAUTIC DEFENSE AND SPACE COMPANY),EU
SCOPE: To develop Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) technologies for Industrial Aerodynamics
The Desider project is motivated by the increasing demand of the European aerospace industries to improve their CFD-aided design procedure and analysis on turbulent unsteady aerodynamic flows.. Thus the major aim is to overcome known weaknesses in the different approaches (mainly RANS and LES) - in order to support the European aeronautics industry by providing method(s) with increased predictive accuracy for flows exhibiting separation. My duties include:
• Provide technical support and CFD simulations to the industrial partners
• Produce best practice papers for turbulence models and mesh generation in complex geometries using commercial (Fluent) and academic solvers.
• Numerical implementation (Fortran and C), validation and improvements of DES (detached eddy simulation), LES and hybrid LES-RANS turbulence models using experimental results and numerical databases.
 
2003 – 2003 Stanford University, center for turbulence research Palo Alto, CA
DARPA Fellowship researcher (5 months).
CLIENT: DARPA
SCOPE: Hydrodynamic noise reduction and shape optimisation of hydrofoils
The objective of this project was to improve the efficiency and noise reduction for the sailplane of SSN688 submarine by doing various studies over the existing design. The studies include a detailed analysis of the unsteady separation at the trailing edge of the hydrofoil using hybrid LES/RANS strategies and Cartesian grid methods (also known as immersed boundaries technique) . Results are found to be in good agreement with the experimental results.

2001 – 2003 INSEAN, Italian Ship Model Basin research laboratory. Rome, Italy
External Contractor. R&D propulsion group. CFD simulations of Naval Propellers
• Successfully optimised the shape of DT4119 propeller using an innovative wall model for large eddy simulation in complex rotating geometries.
• Developed an open source CAD and wrote an interface that was able to take the geometry of naval propellers and automatically compute the metrics needed by the solver using a ray-tracing technique.
• Developed an automatic software able to detect cavitation in an experimental laboratory, using high speed camera and image processing.
 
1999 – 2001 Universita’ La Sapienza. Dipartimento di Meccanica. Rome, Italy
ISPESL-Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention External contractor
• I was involved in several consulting activities related to air pollution.
• Focused on environmental impact analysis and siting of new factories.
• This research was based on simulations performed with the Advanced Regional Prediction System
(ARPS) and supported by the European Union R&D program.
• Worked with national and international institution to further develop the model.
EDUCATION:
2000 – 2003 Universita’ La Sapienza, Ph.D. In applied mechanics. Rome, Italy
• Featured Coursework: Numerical Analysis, Experimental Fluid Dynamics (Hot wire anem.,PIV and LDV).
• Concentrations in: Computational Fluid Mechanics.
• Ph.D. thesis title: “Wall models for large eddy simulation using immersed boundaries method.”
• Supervisor: Roberto Verzicco (universita’ di Roma) and Gianluca Iaccarino (Stanford University)
 
1993 – 1999 Universita’ La Sapienza, Master degree in Aerospace engineering Rome, Italy
• Featured Coursework: propulsion, composite materials.
• Concentrations in: Aerodynamics.
• Master Thesis on CAD interface for Immersed Boundaries. Supervisor: Paolo Orlandi.
 

LANGUAGES: Italian: Native
English: Fluent
COMPUTER SKILLS:
• Fluent, StarCD, Gambit, Icem. Gridgen, Matlab, Tecplot,ANSA,CATIA V5,Fieldview
• Windows, Linux and Linux Clusters (parallel computing).
• Fortran77/90, MPI, C.
FELLOWSHIPS:
• DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency)
• ICL (Imperial College of London)
 
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Nationality: Italian
Hobbies: kart-racing, sailing, hiking, skiing, travelling and reading.
 
PUBBLICATIONS:
 
F. Tessicini, N. LI, M. Leschziner
Hybrid LES/RANS modelling of separated flow around a three-dimensional hill
International journal of heat and fluid flow 2007
 
M. Leschziner, N. Li, F. Tessicini
Computational methods combining large eddy simulation with approximate wall layer models for predicting separated turbulent near wall flows, Frontiers of computational science, Springer 2007
 
F. Tessicini, N. Li, M.A. Leschziner
Simulation of Separation from Curved Surfaces with Combined LES and RANS Schemes.
Complex Effects in Large Eddy Simulations , Springer 2007

F. Tessicini, S. Lardeau, N. Li and M.A. Leschziner
Analysis of three-dimensional separation by LES and subsequent POD reconstruction.
5th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, 2007
 
G.M. Fishpool, N. Li, F. Tessicini, and M.A. Leschziner
Simulation of Turbulent Flow Around Two Cylinders in Tandem
5th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena,2007
 
F. Tessicini, N. LI, M. Leschziner
Simulation of fluid-flow separation from continuous surfaces
Capability computing HPcX,2007
 
F. Tessicini, N.Li, M. Leschziner Zonal LES/RANS modelling of separated flow around a three-dimensional hill ,
in Direct and Large Eddy Simulation VI, 2007
 
F. Tessicini, L. Temmerman and M. A. Leschziner
Approximate near-wall treatments based on zonal hybrid RANS-LES methods for LES at high Reynolds numbers
International journal of heat and fluid flow 2006
 
S. Leonardi, P. Orlandi, F. Tessicini, R. Antonia.
DNS and LES of turbulent flows over rough surfaces
AIAA Journal 2006
 
F. Tessicini, N. Li and M.A. Leschziner,
Simulation of three-dimensional separation with a zonal near-wall approximation, European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECCOMAS CFD 2006, TU Delft, Netherland, 2006

F. Tessicini, M.A. Leschziner
Approximate near-wall treatments based on zonal RANS-LES hybrid methods at high Reynolds numbers
Symposium on Hybrid RANS -LES Methods Rica City Hotel, Stockholm, 14-15 July, 2005
 
F. Tessicini, N. LI, M. Leschziner
Hybrid LES/RANS modelling of separated flow ar ound a three-dimensional hill
Proceedings of Ercoftac 2005 DLES
 
F. Tessicini, N. Li and M.A. Leschziner,
"Zonal LES/RANS modelling of separated flow around a three-dimensional hill", ERCOFTAC workshop on direct and large-eddy simulation, DLES6 , Poitiers, France, 2005.
 
F.Tessicini, L. Temmerman, M. Leschziner
Approximate near-wall treatments based on zonal and hybrid RANS-LES methods for LES at high Reynolds numbers Proceedings of ETMM6 Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements, 2005 etmm6
 
S. Leonardi, F. Tessicini, P. Orland i, R.A. Antonia
Direct and large eddy simulation of a turbulent channel flow with roughness on one wall
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference 2004
 
S. Leonardi, F. Tessicini, P. Orlandi, R.A. Antonia
Large eddy simulation of a turbulent channel flow with square bars on one wall
ETC10, Euromech European Turbulence Conference, 2004
 
F. Tessicini, R. Verzicco, P. Orlandi
Book Chapter:
"Nozzle Geometry Effects in the Near Field of a Round Jet"
Manipulation and Control of Jets in Crossflow
Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Number 439
Karagozian, Ann R.; Cortelezzi, Luca; Soldati, Alfredo (Eds.)
2003, 309 p.,ISBN: 3-211-00753-9
 
F. Tessicini, R. Verzicco,G. Iaccarino,M Fatica
"Wall modeling for large eddy simulation using an immersed boundary method"
CTR Center for Turbulence Research, Annual research briefs, 2002 ctr paper
 
F. Tessicini, R. Verzicco, P. Orlandi, S. Leonardi
"DNS and LES of complex flows using an immersed boundary method
WCCM Proc. of the WCCM V, ISBN 3-9501554-0-6, 2002
 
F. Tessicini, R. Verzicco, P. Orlandi, S. Leonardi
"DNS and LES of Wakes Behind Cylinders with and without Undulations"
EUROMECH Colloquium No 433 Dynamics of Trailing Vortices
March,20-22 2002
 
F. Tessicini, R. Verzicco, P. Orlandi
"Initial Condition Effects in the Near Field of a Round Jet"
AIMETA 15th AIMETA Congress in
Taormina. AIMETA, Kluwer, September-01 2001.
 
F. Tessicini,P. Orlandi
"Numerical simulation in the Terni valley by ARPS" QNET-CFD
Proceedings 1st Workshop, June 10 2001
 
R. Verzicco,P.G. Esposito, F.Tessicini, P. Orlandi, S. Leonardi
"Numerical simulation of flow around a naval propeller at low Reynolds number"
ATI Annual meeting
September,15-20 2000.
 
F. Tessicini, R. Verzicco, P. Orlandi
"Numerical Simulation of Wakes Interacting with Bluff Bodies" Applied
Mathematics for Industrial Flow Second International conference
October,12 2000.
 
F. Tessicini, R. Verzicco, P. Orlandi, S. Leonardi
"Numerical Simulation of Wakes Interacting with Bluff Bodies" In-Vento
2000 6st National Conference Wind Engineering
June,18 2000.
 

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