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GIACOMO VALERIO IUNGO

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Education

2007 – Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, the University of Pisa, Italy
2003 – M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering, the University of Pisa, Italy

Research Interests

Experimental fluid mechanics with applications to power harvesting from turbulent flows.

Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books

  • G. Valerio Iungo, “Experimental characterization of wind turbine wakes: wind tunnel tests and wind LiDAR measurements,” Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 149 (2016): 35-39
  • Ryan Ashton, Francesco Viola, Simone Camarri, Francois Gallaire and G. Valerio Iungo, “Hub vortex instability within wind turbine wakes: Effects of wind turbulence, loading conditions and blade aerodynamics,” Physical Review Fluids, 1, 073603
  • G. Valerio Iungo and Fernando Porté-Agel, “Volumetric lidar scanning of wind turbine wakes under convective and neutral atmospheric stability regimes,” Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 31(10) (2014): 2035-2048
  • Francesco Viola, G. Valerio Iungo, Simone Camarri, Fernando Porté-Agel and Francois Gallaire, “Prediction of the hub vortex instability in a wind turbine wake: stability analysis with eddy-viscosity models calibrated on wind tunnel data,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 750 (2014): R1
  • G. Valerio Iungo, Francesco Viola, Simone Camarri, Fernando Porté-Agel and Francois Gallaire, “Linear stability analysis of wind turbine wakes performed on wind tunnel measurements,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 737 (2013): 499-526

Major Honors and Awards

  • 2010 Special mention for the prize “Best Italian junior researcher in Wind Engineering for the biennium 2008 – 2010”, ANIV, Italian board for the International Association for Wind Engineering, 2nd July 2010, Spoleto, Italy.
  • 2007 Fellowship for an international collaboration to carry out the master thesis, funded by the University of Pisa, Italy.