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Claudio Lettieri, PhD

Projects

• Cavitation Instabilities in Rocket Engine Turbopumps
• Supercritical Fuel Injection
• Non-classical Gas Dynamics Effects in Power Generation Applications

Expertise

• Internal flows
• Turbomachinery
• Numerical Methods
• Non Ideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics

Selected Publications

Lettieri C.,Wang V., Spakovszky Z. “Characterization of Rotating Cavitation in a Four Bladed Inducer”, 2016, 2014, AIAA Propulsion and Energy Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah,USA.

Lettieri C., Paxson D., Spakovszky Z., Bryanston-Cross P.,“Characterization of Non-Equilibrium Condensation of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in a De Laval Nozzle”, 2017, Journal of Turbomachinery. Accepted

Lettieri C., Baltadjiev N., Casey M., Spakovszky Z. “Low-flow-coefficient centrifugal compressor design for supercritical CO2”, 2014, Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol.136(8).

Lettieri C., Yang D., Spakovszky Z., “An Investigation of Condensation Effects in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Compressors”, 2015, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol 137(8).

Lettieri C., Defoe J., Spakovszky Z., “An investigation of non-Linear flow oscillations in a high-pressure centrifugal pump”, 2015, Journal of Turbomachinery, 137 (11).

Jones W. P., Lettieri C., Marquis A., and Navarro-Martinez S. “Large Eddy Simulation of the two-phase flow in an experimental swirl-stabilized burner”, 2012, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 38,145-158.

Jones W.P., and Lettieri C. “Large Eddy Simulation of spray atomization with stochastic modeling of breakup”, 2010, Physics of Fluids 22, 1-12.

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Biography

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology

Degrees

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2010 
• M. Sc. Aerospace Engineering, University of Naples, 2006 

• Research Engineer, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-2015.
• Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011-2012.

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