Carlo Fiorina

Dr. Carlo Fiorina


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Academic Career Length

15Years (2012-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 December 2015 in Nuclear Engineering and Design
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CFCarlo Fiorina
Carlo Fiorina
ICIvor Clifford
Ivor Clifford
MAManuele Aufiero
Manuele Aufiero
KMKonstantin Mikityuk
Konstantin Mikityuk

1 March 2020 in Nuclear Engineering and Design
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ASAlessandro Scolaro
Alessandro Scolaro
ICIvor Clifford
Ivor Clifford
CFCarlo Fiorina
Carlo Fiorina
APAndreas Pautz
Andreas Pautz


4 March 2023 in Nuclear Engineering and Design
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EBEdoardo Luciano Brunetto
Edoardo Luciano Brunetto
ASAlessandro Scolaro
Alessandro Scolaro
CFCarlo Fiorina
Carlo Fiorina
APAndreas Pautz
Andreas Pautz

1 December 2020 in Nuclear Engineering and Design
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MAMuhammad Ramzy Altahhan
Muhammad Ramzy Altahhan
SBSandesh Bhaskar
Sandesh Bhaskar
DZDevshibhai Ziyad
Devshibhai Ziyad
PBPaolo Balestra
Paolo Balestra
CFCarlo Fiorina
Carlo Fiorina
MAMaria Avramova
Maria Avramova

28 July 2021 in Fluids
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PGPeter German
Peter German
MTMauricio Tano
Mauricio Tano
CFCarlo Fiorina
Carlo Fiorina
Jean C. RagusaJean C. Ragusa
Jean C. Ragusa
This work presents a data-driven Reduced-Order Model (ROM) for parametric convective heat transfer problems in porous media. The intrusive Proper Orthogonal Decomposition aided Reduced-Basis (POD-RB) technique is employed to reduce the porous medium formulation of the incompressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations coupled with heat transfer. Instead of resolving the exact flow configuration with high fidelity, the porous medium formulation solves a homogenized flow in which the fluid-structure interactions are captured via volumetric flow resistances with nonlinear, semi-empirical friction correlations. A supremizer approach is implemented for the stabilization of the reduced fluid dynamics equations. The reduced nonlinear flow resistances are treated using the Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method (DEIM), while the turbulent eddy viscosity and diffusivity are approximated by adopting a Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation-based approach. The proposed method is tested using a 2D numerical model of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR), which involves the simulation of both clean and porous medium regions in the same domain. For the steady-state example, five model parameters are considered to be uncertain: the magnitude of the pumping force, the external coolant temperature, the heat transfer coefficient, the thermal expansion coefficient, and the Prandtl number. For transient scenarios, on the other hand, the coastdown-time of the pump is the only uncertain parameter. The results indicate that the POD-RB-ROMs are suitable for the reduction of similar problems. The relative L2 errors are below 3.34% for every field of interest for all cases analyzed, while the speedup factors vary between 54 (transient) and 40,000 (steady-state).