Fabrizio Ponti

Professore ordinario

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale

Settore scientifico disciplinare: ING-IND/07 PROPULSIONE AEROSPAZIALE

Didattica

Argomenti di tesi proposti dal docente.

Plasma Thrusters

Development of an interface for the coupling of the source module (fluid code) and the plume module (PIC code).
Preliminary design of an experimental set-up for electric propulsion thrusters.
Design of a code able to automatically build a mesh aligned with the magnetic field in order to reduce numerical diffusion. Such mesh shall be obtained by taking as input a specific set of parameters and shall be aligned with the magnetic field.
Design of a code able to automatically build a mesh suitable to be used by the source module in OpenFOAM.
Analysis of the radiative loss effects on the performance of a plasma thruster.
Simulation of a magnetic nozzle with opensource PIC codes (Starfish,Spis,Xoopic).
Preliminary design of a thrust balance to estimate the performance of plasma thrusters.

Solid Rocket Boosters

Simulation of the casting process of a Solid Rocket Booster (openFoam).
Evaluation of the convective heat exchange on a burning surface (openFoam).
1D-unsteady ballistic model to evaluate the combustion chamber pressure evolution of a Solid Rocket Booster (Matlab)

Aerospike

Evaluation of the thrust generated by an aerospike and its comparison with experimental measurements (openFoam).
Evaluation of the aerospike thrust under changing ambient and external flow conditions (openFoam).

Gas Turbines

Ultime tesi seguite dal docente

Analisi sugli effetti di diverse funzioni di distribuzione nelle performance di propulsori al plasma di tipo Helicon
Modellazione delle anisotropie generate in un grano di propellente composito a seguito del processo di colaggio
Ottimizzazione della topologia del campo emesso da magneti permanenti per impiego su Helicon Plasma Thruster
Progetto preliminare di una camera a vuoto per il test di propulsori al plasma
Simulazione dell'espansione di gas neutri per propulsori elettrici tramite metodi DSMC
Simulazione numerica di un sistema propulsivo ABEP tramite modelli 0D e metodi Particle in Cell
Sistemi di conversione dell’energia nucleare in propulsori elettrici per missioni spaziali
Studio della topologia magnetica di magneti permanenti per applicazioni su Helicon Plasma Thrusters
Sviluppo di un global model per propellenti alternativi
Valutazione dell’effetto del raggio di curvatura locale della superficie sulla velocità di regressione del propellente solido

Analysis of the Burning Surface Regression of a Square-Shaped Solid Propellant Sample
Bearing Degradation Dynamic Modelling and Fault Analysis for a Reusable Liquid Rocket Engine Turbopump
Design of a bang-bang pressure regulation system for cold gas and plasma engines
Development of a custom solver based on OpenFOAM library to simulate iodine-based Helicon Plasma thruster.
Development of a fluid code for the simulation of air fed Helicon Plasma Thrusters
Development of a MEMS Space Bipropellant Propulsion System based on Ethane/Nitrous Oxide
Feasibility analysis and preliminary design of an Helicon-based ABEP in VLMO
Numerical analysis of turbulent flow in an Aerospike Nozzle using dbnsTurbFoam
Numerical Derivation of the Thrust History for the "DemoP1" Aerospike Rocket Engine During the Ascension Phase.
Predicting the antenna properties of helicon plasma thrusters using machine learning techniques
Simulation of the casting process of a composite propellant in a small scale solid rocket motor.

Development of numerical tools for the simulation, design and optimization of a Helicon Plasma Thruster