Marco MULAS is our CFD Expert (VENTO)
Mechanical Engineer with six years of graduate studies in the US and Europe, in universities that literally shaped the science of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and more than 30 years of R&D in Fluid Mechanics and in CFD.
- Graduated with honours in Mechanical Engineering from Università degli Studi di Cagliari
- MS in Mechanical Engineering from Standford University
- Diploma Course from Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
- PhD in Fluids Mechanics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel
He spent almost 17 years at CRS4, the Sardianian Research centre founded by Physics Nobel Prize winner Carlo Rubbia. He was head of the CFD group for the last 9 years.
During his career he has dedicated himself to the development of algorithms and technologies for the analysis of new problems. A few examples:
- A 1D transient CFD code for the Blue Stream project, commissioned by ENI and Gazprom.
- A quasi 3D CFD code for fuel cell stacks (together with a colleague expert in membrane analytical modelling).
- The P242 project, directed by Carlo Rubbia, where a NS code was coupled with a Montecarlo code for simulating a nonconventional concept for nuclear space propulsion.
In May 2005 he was the local organizer and co-chairman, together with prof. W. Rodi of the University of Karlsruhe, of 6th International Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements, which took place in Villasimius, Sardinia.
During the final years at CRS4 he started the development of the Non-Conformal Grid technology (also known as Immersed Boundary technique) which may be considered the most disruptive technology innovation in the CFD history since its birth.
He was the author of about a dozen papers presented at international Conferences and of 4 papers published in the scientific literature.
In December 2016 he was one of the founders of Vento CFD.
