C. (Claudio) Lettieri
C. (Claudio) Lettieri
Profiel
Personal Website
Projecten
- 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.
Biografie
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.
Expertise
Publicaties
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2021
Dense-vapor effects in compressible internal flows
Francesco Tosto / Claudio Lettieri / Matteo Pini / Piero Colonna
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2019
Inducer design optimization to improve its suction performance
Yushi Nakamura / Kentarou Hayashi / Masahiro Miyabe / Marek Lubieniecki / Yutaka Kawata / Claudio Lettieri
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2019-6-1
Source term based modeling of rotating cavitation in turbopumps
A. G. Vermes / C. Lettieri
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2018-4-1
Characterization of Nonequilibrium Condensation of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in a de Laval Nozzle
Claudio Lettieri / Derek Paxson / Zoltan Spakovszky / Peter Bryanston-Cross
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2018
Design optimization of splitter blades for rocket engine turbopump
Francesco Torre / Shinichi Konno / Matteo Pini / Y. Kawata / Claudio Lettieri
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