GIACOMO VALERIO IUNGO

valerio.iungo@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4621
Mailstop: WT10
Office: WSTC 2.208
ECSW 4.150F
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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

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

Khedr, A., Panthi, K., Ahmed, W.U., Castellani, F. and Iungo, G.V., 2025. Riblets and scales on 3D-printed wind turbine blades: Influence of surface micro-patterning properties on enhancing aerodynamic performance.Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 266, p.106188.
Moss, C., Maulik, R. and Iungo, G.V., 2024. Augmenting insights from wind turbine data through data-driven approaches.Applied Energy, 376, p.124116.
Ehsani, R., Heisel, M., Puccioni, M., Hong, J., Iungo, V., Voller, V. and Guala, M., 2024. Stochastic modal velocity field in rough-wall turbulence.Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 999, p.A56.
Ahmed, W.U. and Iungo, G.V., 2024. Effects of wind shear and thrust coefficient on the induction zone of a porous disk: A wind tunnel study.Wind Energy, 27(8), pp.749-766.
Iungo, G.V., Guala, M., Hong, J., Bristow, N., Puccioni, M., Hartford, P., Ehsani, R., Letizia, S., Li, J. and Moss, C., 2024. Grand-scale atmospheric imaging apparatus (GAIA) and wind lidar multiscale measurements in the atmospheric surface layer.Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(1), pp. E121-E143.

2025 NSF Mid-Career Advancement Award, Geosciences Directorate, title: “Inhomogeneous Non-equilibrium Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer in Coastal Region: A Call for Data-driven Modeling to Interconnect Turbulence, Oceanography, and MEteorology”.
2020 NSF CAREER Award, CBET Fluid Dynamics Program, Program Manager: Ron Joslin, title: “CAREER: Scalar Transport in High Reynolds Number Boundary Layer with Heterogeneous Roughness and Source Flux: Modeling Marine Aerosol in Coastal Regions”.
2010 Special mention for the prize “Best Italian junior researcher in Wind Engineering”, ANIV 2010 for the biennium 2008− 2010, 2nd July 2010, Spoleto, Italy.