Fabrizio Fontaneto
Associate Professor
Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Waterloosesteenweg 72
1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode
Phone: +32 2 359 96 30
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Biography
Education
10/2003 – 04/2009: Mechanical Engineering (M.S. with honours), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
10/2011 – 06/2012: Research Master in Fluid Dynamics (postgraduate with honours), von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium.
01/2010 – 04/2014: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Turbomachinery, Università degli Studi di Bergamo (Italy) and the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (Belgium)
Career
2020 – present: Associate Professor, Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
2015 – 2019: Assistant Professor, Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
2014 – 2015: Research Engineer, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Service to Society
Member of 2 PhD committees since 2015
Organizing committees:
- Biennial Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery
Reviewer for:
- Journal of Turbomachinery
- Measurements Science and Technology
- International Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power
- ASME TurboExpo
- European Turbomachinery Conference
- GPPS Conference
Review Chair:
- ASME TurboExpo
- GPPS conference
- European Turbomachinery Conference
Session Chair:
- ASME TurboExpo
Awards and Memberships
- 2019 Safran Challenge with project on statistical inference for turbomachinery components performance measurements
- Best paper award, 18th Biennial Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery, 2018
Teaching
Teaching at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
- Advanced Axial Compressors course:
- Academic Year 2015: co-taught
- Academic Year 2016: independently taught
- Academic Year 2017: course updated at 50%
- Academic Year 2018: course updated at 50% + 50% update of design exercise
- Academic Year 2019: course fully updated + design exercise fully updated
- Course of AY 2019 received very good feedback from students
- TU Lab course:
- Academic Year 2015 to present
- Co-taught with Prof. S. Lavagnoli
- Fully updated and extended with new supporting material
- Introduction to Measurement Techniques Lecture Series:
- Hot Wire anemometry part (2 hours) fully updated as of 2016
- Responsible for demos to externals and internals for: 1) Temperature measurements, 2) Pressure measurements
- Currently leading with Miguel Mendez the update of IMT notes and lecture series structure
Teaching in Hosting Institutions
- Periodic symposia (yearly)
- Politecnico di Milano, within the Turbomachinery course, Master degree, 3 hours
- Periodic crash courses (yearly, since 2018):
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Gas Turbines Technology, Master degree, 6 hours
- Invited lectures:
- 2016, École Centrale de Lyon, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique - UMR 5509
- 2015, Imperial College, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics
- Visiting professor:
- École Centrale de Lyon, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique - UMR 5509, 1 month
Supervision of students
PhD Students
- Graduated first PhD student in 2016: Giulia Dell’Era. Replacing former
- 1 FRIA grant PhD student (end 2020): Elissavet Boufidi
- 1 CIFRE grant PhD student (end 2021): Cedric Babin
- 1 VKI grant PhD student (end 2024): Riccardo Toracchio
- 2 CIFRE grant PhD projects starting in 2020: Safran Aircraft Engines and Safran Tech
Research Master Programme
- 2 to 3 students every academic year
- 2015 – von Karman Prize: Elissavet Boufidi
- 2017 – Belgian Government Prize: Davide Scandella (co-tutored with Prof. Lavagnoli)
- 2019 – Belgian Government Prize: Marco Manfredi
- 2020 – Excellence in Experimental Research: Goncalo Granjal Cruz
Short Training programme
- 4 to 6 students every academic year
Research
Research partnerships created since 2015
- École Centrale de Lyon, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique - UMR 5509: very tight link strongly enforced during the last 5 years. Cotutoring different PhD students and partners in different industrial and EU-funded projects
- École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace, ISAE-Supaero: recently developed in the frame of CIFRE thesis
- CENAERO - Université de Liège: developed in the frame of an ongoing EU project, was strongly boosted in the last year through a winning EU project proposal and in the frame of a co-tutored PhD project
Public funded research: Principal Investigator / VKI PI of:
Probes Calibration activity in C4: lasting since 2014
- IT measurement campaign
- Ipanema (EU)
- Fast Taps (EU)
- Astoria (EU)
- Catana (EU)
- Lemcotec and Post-Lemcotec: in charge of processing and data exploitation (EU)
Publications
Publications
Journal Publications (10 last years)
[9] E. Boufidi, S. Lavagnoli, F. Fontaneto: A probabilitistic uncertainty estimation method for turbulence parameters measured by hot wire anemometry in short duration wind tunnels. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, March 2020, Vol. 142, Issue 3, Paper 03107 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044780 (JCR Impact Factor 2019-2020: 1.804)
[8] E. Boufidi, M. Alati, F. Fontaneto, S. Lavagnoli: Design and testing of a miniaturized five-hole fast response pressure probe with large frequency bandwidth and high angular sensitivity. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, October 2019, Vol. 141, Issue 10, Paper 101010, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044660 (JCR Impact Factor 2019-2020: 1.804)
[7] R. Hadavandi, F. Fontaneto, J. Desset: Complete characterization of a highly loaded low pressure compressor at different Reynolds numbers for computational fluid dynamics simulations. Journal of Turbomachinery, June 2018, Vol. 140, Issue 6, Paper 061008 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4039727 (JCR Impact Factor 2019-2020: 2.713)
[6] F. Fontaneto, T. Arts, M. Simon, P. Picot: Aerodynamic performance of an ultra-low aspect ratio centripetal turbine stator International. Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power, 2016, Vol. 1, Issue 3, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijtpp1010003 (JCR Impact Factor 2019-2020: -)
[5] F. Bassi, F. Fontaneto, N. Franchina, A. Ghidoni, M. Savini: Turbine vane film cooling: heat transfer evaluation using high-order discontinuous Galerkin RANS computations. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, October 2016, Vol. 61, pp 610-625, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2016.07.007 (JCR Impact Factor 2019-2020: 2.073)
[4] G. Barigozzi, F. Fontaneto, G. Franchini, A. Perdichizzi, M. Maritano, R. Abram: Influence of Coolant Flow Rate on Aero-Thermal Performance of a Rotor Blade Cascade With Endwall Film Cooling. Journal of Turbomachinery, September 2012, Vol. 134, Issue 5, Paper 051038, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4004858 (JCR Impact Factor 2019-2020: 2.713)
[3] G. Barigozzi, F. Fontaneto, G. Franchini, A. Perdichizzi, M. Maritano, R. Abram: Influence of hole diameter and fan shaping on film cooling of a rotor blade endwall.
[2] S Köberl, F Fontaneto, F Giuliani, J Woisetschläger: Frequency-resolved interferometric measurement of local density fluctuations for turbulent combustion analysis. Measurement Science and Technology, February 2010, Vol. 21, Issue 3, Paper 035302., https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/21/3/035302 (JCR Impact Factor 2019-2020: 1.857)
[1] S Köberl, F Giuliani, F Fontaneto, J Woisetschläger: Power spectra measurements for the density fluctuation in a jet flame using dual laser vibrometry.
Conference Proceedings (10 last years)
[1] S. Köberl, M. Heimel, F. Giuliani, J. Woisetschläger, F. Fontaneto: Measurement of Local Density Fluctuations for Combustion Diagnostics of Different Flames Using Dual Laser Vibrometry. 46th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit; July 2010, eISBN: 978-1-60086-958-7, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2010-6670
[2] G. Barigozzi, F. Fontaneto, G. Franchini, A. Perdichizzi, M. Maritano, R. Abram: Influence of Coolant Flow Rate on Aero-Thermal Performance of a Rotor Blade Cascade With Endwall Film Cooling. ASME 2011 Turbo Expo: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition; June 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7918-5465-5, https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2011-45899
[3] G. Barigozzi, F. Fontaneto, G. Franchini, A. Perdichizzi, M. Maritano, R. Abram: Aero-Thermal Performance of a Rotor Blade Cascade With Stator-Rotor Seal Purge Flow. ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition; June 2012, ISBN: 978-0-7918-4470-0, https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2012-69552
[4] F. Fontaneto, T. Arts, T. Regert, M. Simon:Experimental methodology for the performance assessment of a transonic ultra-low aspect ratio centripetal turbine stator. XXII Biannual Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery, September 4-5, 2014, Lyon, France
[5] F. Fontaneto, T. Arts, M. Simon, P. Picot: Aerodynamic performance of an ultra-low aspect ratio centripetal turbine stator. ETC 2015, 11th European Turbomachinery Conference, March 23-27, 2015, Madrid, Spain
[6] F. Fontaneto & A. Lahalle: Highly reliable aerodynamic calibration for ground and flight testing total temperature probes. XXIII Biannual Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery, September 1-2, 2016, Stuttgart, Germany
[7] E. Boufidi & F. Fontaneto: Towards a more reliable application of hot wire anemometry in complex compressible flows. XXIII Biannual Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery, September 1-2, 2016, Stuttgart, Germany
[8] R. Hadavandi, F. Fontaneto, J. Desset: Complete characterization of a highly loaded low pressure compressor at different Reynolds numbers for computational fluid dynamics simulations.ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, June 26-30, 2017, Charlotte, USA, ASME GT2017-63673, https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2017-63673
[9] A. Lahalle, F. Fontaneto, T. Arts: CFD driven analysis of a multi-port pressure probe for real engine testing. ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, June 26-30, 2017, Charlotte, USA, ASME GT2017-64166, https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2017-64166
[10] E. Boufidi, M. Cottes, F. Fontaneto: CTHWA dynamic response effects on turbulence measurements in turbomachinery flows. XXIV Biannual Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery Transonic and Supersonic Flow in Cascades and Turbomachines, August 29-31, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic, Paper No MTT2418B41
[11] E. Boufidi, M. Alati, F. Fontaneto, S. Lavagnoli: Design and testing of a miniaturized five-hole fast response pressure probe with large frequency bandwidth and high angular sensitivity. ASME Turbo Expo 2019: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, June 17-21, 2019, Phoenix, USA, ASME GT2019-90470, https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2019-90470
[12] E. Boufidi, S. Lavagnoli, F. Fontaneto: A probabilitistic uncertainty estimation method for turbulence parameters measured by hot wire anemometry in short duration wind tunnels. ASME Turbo Expo 2019: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, June 17-21, 2019, Phoenix, USA, ASME GT2019-90461, https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2019-90461
