talks

2023
Numerical analysis in biofluid dynamics: eye, nose and blood vessels
Seminar at DIMA, Università di Genova, Italia, November 30th, 2022
[pdf]

2015
Optimal control of complex flows: versus real applications
Seminar at LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France, October 29th, 2015
[pdf]

Fluid Mechanics in the anterior- and vitreous chamber of the eye
Seminar at Ladhyx, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, October 20th, 2015
[pdf] [movie retinal break] [movie retinal hole]

Fluid-Structure Interaction in the case of filaments: applications to passive control and retinal detachment in the human eye.
Seminar at ONERA, Paris, France, October 19th, 2015
[part1.pdf] [part2.pdf] [movie retinal break] [movie retinal hole]

Computer-based analysis of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Talk at AIMETA 2015, Genova, Italy, (September 17th)
[pdf] [movie_break.mov] [movie_hole.mov]

Fluid Mechanics of the eye: recent progress at the University of Genoa
Seminar at IMFT, Toulouse, France, (June 17th)
[pdf]

2014
Fluid Mechanics of the eye: linear stability analysis of a two-liquid interface in the vitreous chamber and flow of aqueous humour with an intraocular lens
Invited: Lecture at Rencontre Niçoise de Mécanique des Fluides, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, University of Nice, France, (December 9th)
[pdf]

Adjoint equations: theory and applications
Invited: Lecture at Politecnico di Milano, (January 14th)
[pdf 1] [pdf 2] [movie]

2013
Optimal control of complex flows
Invited: Seminar at IMFT, Toulouse, France (October 22th)
[pdf]

Dynamics of the vitreous humour induced by eye rotations:
implications for retinal detachment and intra-vitreal drug delivery

Invited: Seminar at LadHyx, Ecole polytechnique, France (October 18th)
[pdf]

2012
Transition to turbulence at the bottom of a solitary wave
ICCE 2012, Santander, Spain (July 2nd)
[pdf] [movie 1] [movie 2] [movie 3] [movie 4]

Dynamics of the vitreous humour induced by eye rotations:
implications for retinal detachment and intra-vitreal drug delivery

Work shop, Sandhamn, Stockholm (May 24th)
[pdf] [movie 1] [movie 2] [movie 3]

Three-dimensional stability of the flow past a rotating cylinder
EFMC 9, Rome, Italy (Sep. 10th)
[pdf]

2010
Optimal control of complex flows
Invited: International Forum of Flow Control (IFFC-2), Poitiers, France (Dec 6th)
[pdf] [movie 1] [movie 2] [movie 3]

Sensitivity Analysis of the Finite-Amplitude Vortex Shedding
behind a Cylinder

8th SIG 33 Workshop, Nice (June 30th)
[pdf]

Optimal control of a thin-airfoil wake using a Riccati-less approach
EFMC 8, Bad Reichenhall, Germany (Sept 13th)
[pdf]

2009
Riccati-less optimal control of bluff-body wakes
IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm (June 25th)

2008
Feedback stabilization of the wake behind a cylinder
7th SIG 33 Workshop, S. Margherita Ligure, Italy (Oct. 17th)
[pdf] [movie 1] [movie 2]

Algebraic versus exponential spatial growth in swept-wing flow
EFMC 7, Manchester, England (Sept. 14th)

More on the low frequency mode of a rotating cylinder
EFMC 7, Manchester, England (Sept. 14th)

2007
Optimal spatial growth of swept-wing instabilities through multiple-scale analysis
6th SIG 33 Workshop, Kleinwalsertal, Austria (June 18th)

2006
Leaky waves in supersonic boundary layer flow
EFMC 6, Stockholm, Sweden (June 26th)

2005
Leaky Waves in Spatial Stability Analysis
17th AIMeTA Congress of Theor. and Appl. Mechanics, Firenze (Sept. 11th)
[pdf]

Leaky waves in boundary layer flow
58th Annual Meeting of the APS, Chicago (Nov. 20th)

2004
Optimal Suction Design For Hybrid Laminar Flow Control
IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Bangalore (Dec 13th)
[pdf]

2003
Optimal Suction Design for HLFC Applications
33rd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando, Florida (June 24th)

Optimal Design of Natural and Hybrid Laminar Flow Control on Wings.
PhD defence, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

2002
Optimization of Steady Suction for Disturbance Control on Infinite Swept Wings.
ASME 2002 (FEDSM2002), Quebec, Canada (July 14th)

2001
Towards optimal design of vehicles with low drag: Applications to sensitivity analysis and optimal control.
Licenciate defence, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

2000
Sensitivity Analysis Using Adjoint Parabolized Stability Equations for Compressible Flows
ETC 8, Barcelona, Spain

1999
Sensitivity Analysis Using Adjoint Parabolized Stability Equations for Compressible Flows
1st SIG 33 Workshop, Toulouse, France