Gianluca Boccardo

Gianluca Boccardo
School of Mechanical Engineering
Tel Aviv University
Email: [email protected]
Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
Phone: +972 (03) 640-5581
[email protected]
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
Tel Aviv University
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, School of Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Amir Paster
Politecnico di Torino
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Chemical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Daniele Marchisio
Tel Aviv, Israel
May 2016 - Present
Torino, Italy
January 2015 - December 2015
Politecnico di Torino
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Advisors: Profs. Daniele Marchisio, Rajandrea Sethi
Torino, Italy
Jan. 2012 - Jan. 2015
Politecnico di Torino
Laurea Specialistica (M. Sc. Equiv.) in Chemical Engineering
110/110
Torino, Italy
Oct. 2007 - Dec. 2011
Politecnico di Torino
Laurea Triennale (B. Sc. Equiv.) in Chemical Engineering
105/110
Torino, Italy
Oct. 2004 - Oct. 2007
Liceo Scientifico “Norberto Bobbio”
High School Diploma in Scientific Studies
100/100
Carignano (TO), Italy
Sep. 1997 - Jul. 2002
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Transport phenomena and reactive flows in porous media; computational fluid dynamics for disordered
media; population balance modelling for disperse multiphase flows; chemical reactor engineering; porous
media algorithmic generation (via rigid body simulations), high performance computing.
PhD DISSERTATION
Title: “An in-silico open-source approach for the investigation of multi-phase packed systems: rigid
body simulations and computational fluid dynamics”
Advisors: Profs. Daniele Marchisio, Rajandrea Sethi
Available online at http://porto.polito.it/2609771/
The dissertation focused on the development of an open-source framework for the analysis of transport
phenomena of multi-phase reacting flows in packed beds and disordered porous media, from the creation
of the geometric model of the porous medium to the computational fluid dynamics analysis.
MSc THESIS
Title: “Simulazione di trasporto e deposizione di particelle di ferro in mezzi porosi per applicazioni
ambientali. (Simulation of transport and deposition of particles for environmental applications)”
Advisors: Profs. Daniele Marchisio, Rajandrea Sethi
The thesis dealt with simulating particle transport and deposition in porous media with computational
fluid dynamics, obtaining new constitutive equations for particle deposition efficiency.
Gianluca Boccardo
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Referee Reviewing for the following journals: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Science.
• Consultancy work (2015 ) Consultancy for BASF, creation of a Python-coded package integrated with
Blender for the creation of models of porous media (random packings and packed-bed reactors) via rigid
body simulations. Project name: “Algorithmic generation of packings with rigid body simulation”.
• Other (2013-2014 ) Collaboration with Institut Français du Pétrole - Énergies Nouvelles. The project
dealt with the the CFD analysis of transport (pressure drop, mass transfer) in packed beds of a wide
selection of different catalytic elements with different shape and size distribution, in order to ascertain
the global packed bed characteristics.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Teaching Assistant.
Spring 2012 : Chemical Reactors - II, Prof. Silvio Sicardi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Spring 2013 : Chemical Reactors - II, Prof. Silvio Sicardi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Spring 2013 : Transport Phenomena - I, Prof. Italo Mazzarino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fall 2014 : Control and Instrumentation for Chemical Processes, Prof. Roberto Pisano, Politecnico di
Torino, Italy
Spring 2015 : Transport Phenomena - I, Prof. Italo Mazzarino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Student co-advisoring.
Giuliana Giunta, Master student, (April 2015 - Present). “Simulation of transport and deposition of
particles with computational fluid dynamics and population balances”, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
Luigi del Plato, Master student, (March 2013 - March 2014 ). “ Simulazioni di reattori a letto impaccato
con fisica balistica e fluidodinamica computazionale (Simulation of packed-bed reactors with ballistic
physics and computational fluid dynamics)”.
Eleonora Crevacore, Master student, (March 2013 - December 2013 ). “Microscale CFD simulations of
fluid flow and colloid transport in porous media”, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
AWARDS & HONORS
• November 2015: Winner of 2014 Prize for Quality in Research for Ph.D. students, by the Doctoral
School of Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS
1. Crevacore E., Boccardo G., Marchisio D., Sethi R., “Microscale colloidal transport simulations for
groundwater remediation”, Chemical Engineering Transactions, vol. 47, pp. 271-276, 2016 - ISSN:
22839216.
2. Icardi M., Boccardo G., Tempone R., “On the predictivity of pore-scale simulations: an Uncertainty
Quantification approach”, Advances in Water Resources, in press.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.01.004.
3. Boccardo, G., Augier F., Haroun Y., Ferré D., Marchisio D., “Validation of a novel open-source workflow for the simulation of packed-bed reactors”, Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 279, pp. 809-820,
2015 - ISSN: 1385-8947.
4. Icardi M., Boccardo G., Marchisio D., Tosco T., Sethi R., “Pore-scale simulation of fluid flow and
solute dispersion in three-dimensional porous media”, Physical Review E, Statistical, Nonlinear and
Soft Matter Physics, vol. 90, 013032, 2014 - ISSN 1539-3755.
5. Boccardo G., Marchisio D., Sethi R., “Microscale simulation of particle deposition in porous media”,
Journal of Colloid and Interface Sciences, vol. 417C, pp. 227-237, 2014 - ISSN 0021-9797.
Gianluca Boccardo
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
6. Capozzi L. C., Boccardo G., Barresi A. A., Pisano R., “Coupled bullet physics and computational fluid
dynamics as a tool for modelling the freeze-drying of microparticles”, 5th European Drying Conference,
Budapest, HUN, November 2015.
7. Boccardo G., Icardi M., Marchisio D., Sethi R., Tosco T., “Pore-scale simulation of colloid dispersion
and deposition in porous media”, International Conference on Multiphase Flows in Industrial Plants,
Sestri Levante, ITA, September 2014.
8. Boccardo G., Del Plato L., Marchisio D., Augier F., Haroun Y., Ferré D., Icardi M., “Pore-scale
simulation of fluid flow in packed bed reactors via rigid-body simulations and CFD”, 10th International
Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics In the Oil & Gas, Metallurgical and Process Industries,
Trondheim, NOR, June 2014.
9. Tosco T., Lince F., Marchisio D., Boccardo G., Sethi R., “Pore scale flow simulations for numerical
validation of Darcy-Forchheimer law for shear thinning fluids used in colloidal zerovalent iron delivery”,
1st European Symposium on Remediation Technologies and their Integration in Water Management,
Barcelona, ESP, September 2012.
CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS
PRESENTATIONS
1. Boccardo G., Sethi R., Marchisio D., “Particle dispersion and deposition in porous media: a computational perspective”, 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, US-MA,
November 2015.
2. Boccardo G., Crevacore E., Sethi R., Marchisio D., “Population balance modelling of particle deposition and aggregation in porous media”, 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, US-UT,
November 2015.
3. Boccardo G., Crevacore E., Sethi R., Marchisio D., “Simulation of particle deposition in porous
media: computational fluid dynamics and population balance modelling”, 10th European Congress of
Chemical Engineering, Nice, FRA, September 2015.
4. Boccardo G., Matteo Icardi, Daniele Marchisio , Rajandrea Sethi, Tiziana Tosco, “Pore-scale simulation of colloid dispersion and deposition in porous media”, International Conference on Multiphase
Flows in Industrial Plants, Sestri Levante, ITA, September 2014.
5. Boccardo G., Del Plato L., Marchisio D., Augier F., Haroun Y., Ferré D., Icardi M., “Pore-scale
simulation of fluid flow in packed bed reactors via rigid-body simulations and CFD”, 10th International
Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Oil & Gas, Metallurgical and Process Industries,
Trondheim, NOR, June 2014.
6. Boccardo, G., Icardi M., Marchisio D., Sethi R., “Simulation of flow and particle transport and
deposition in porous media with computational fluid dynamics”, 9th European Congress of Chemical
Engineering, The Hague, NLD, April 2013.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Coding: Python, C++, Java, Matlab.
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Fluent, GAMBIT, OpenFOAM.
Rigid-body simulations: Blender (Bullet Physics integration).
High Performance Computing experience: Principal Investigator in CINECA project IsC23-3DDEP,
collaborator in PRACE project 2010PA01076, CINECA projects IsC09-MuSiPP and IsC32-MPPM.
Other: LATEX, MS Office suite.
LANGUAGES
Italian: native.
English: professional working proficiency (CEFR - C1).
REFERENCES
FROM ACADEMIA
Prof. Rajandrea Sethi
Associate Professor
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
Politecnico di Torino
10129 Torino, Italy
Phone: +39 (011) 090-7735
[email protected]
Prof. Daniele Marchisio
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Science and Technology
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
Politecnico di Torino
10129 Torino, Italy
Phone: +39 (011) 090-4622
[email protected]
Prof. Roberto Pisano
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Science and Technology
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
Politecnico di Torino
10129 Torino, Italy
Phone: +39 (011) 090-4679
[email protected]
FROM INDUSTRY
Frédéric Augier, Ph.D., HDR
Rond-point de l’échangeur de Solaize
IFP - Énergies Nouvelles
BP 3 69360 Solaize, France
Phone: +33 478022142;
[email protected]
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