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).
- Graduated with honours from Università degli Studi di Cagliari
- MS in Mechanical Engineering from Standford University
- Diploma Course from Von Karman Institute
- PhD 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 and, together with his staff he enjoyed developing algorithms and methodologies for new problems. Among them: 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), and the P242 project, directed by Carlo Rubbia, where we coupled a NS code with a Montecarlo code for non conventional nuclear space propulsion. The entire idea as well as the Montecarlo code were Rubbia’s.
In 2005 he was the local organizer and 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 his R&D on the Immersed Boundary technique that he used to innovate the CFD software. At that time he invented the “layouts”, the CFD “appification” ante litteram, as it is now called. That work became the basis to start his new career as startupper and entrepreneur.
- 2009-2015 Founder and Chairman of KARALIT – Five tough years, challenging, intense, consuming. he raised more than 3 million € from a dozen private investors and one VC company, as well as more than 1 million € of public funding. He learnt more in these five years than in the rest of hislife, and he was not only referring to CFD and business. Then the business initiative came to an end for many reasons.
- 2016-today – Founder and CEO Vento CFD – At Vento-CFD they deeply transformed the way CFD analysis can be done. they based their software on the Immersed Boundary technique and on what they called “layouts”, the software “appification” ante litteram. It took him more than a dozen years to develop and improve his own IB technique well beyond today’s state of art to eventually reach unparalleled speed and ease-of-use.
The preparation of cases of normal and high geometrical complexity, which may take hours and days with the most popular CFD products, are done in less than 10 minutes with VENTO software.
Their latest version, IB 2.0, is capable of identifying all sub-grid geometrical scales, and treat them appropriately, without the need of spending hours and days for cleaning the geometry, reaching amazing and unbelievable levels of robustness and accuracy.
VENTO AEC product is the first CFD software exclusively developed for Architects and Constrution Engineers, capable of importing BIM-IFC files.
VENTO (with the orange interface) and VENTO AEC (with a blue interface) both integrate the “piccolo CAD” a tool that allows to import, simplify and possibly adjust IGES, BREP and STEP files. - Author of XXX+ articles