STEFANO LEONARDI

stefano.leonardi@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-3564
Mailstop: ECW 31
ECSW 4.150E
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

PROFESSOR

PhD, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Sapienza University of Rome.

MS, Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

Turbulence, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Wind Energy, Drag Reduction, Super Hydrophobic surfaces, cardiovascular flows, Heat transfer

F Manganelli, C Bernardi, S Leonardi, S Cherubini, P De Palma (2025) Assessing the Effect of Coriolis Acceleration on the Coherent Structures in the Wake of a Wind Turbine Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition, Journal of Fluids Engineering 147 (3)
Bruno, F., Leonardi S. & De Marchis M. (2024) Towards a new roughness parametrization through the Effective Distribution function. of Fluid Mechanics 999, A26
Bernardoni F., Rotea M.R. & Leonardi S. (2024) Impact of yaw misalignment on turbine loads in the presence of wind farm blockage, Wind Energy, Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 535-548
G Della Posta, S Leonardi, M Bernardini (2023) Large eddy simulations of a utility‐scale horizontal axis wind turbine including unsteady aerodynamics and fluid‐structure interaction modelling. Wind Energy 26 (1), 98-125
J Sundin, U Ciri, S Leonardi, M Hultmark, S Bagheri (2022) Heat transfer increase by convection in liquid-infused surfaces for laminar and turbulent flows, J. Fluid Mech. 941, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.279

Research featured on the NSF web site and on NSF-Science360 (New control strategy helps reap maximum power from wind farms).
Research featured on the Teragrid Science Highlights 2008, NSF.
Research featured on the Multimedia Gallery of National Science Foundation.
Distinguished Professor Award, 2006,2007,2011,2012, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Best Professor Award October 2011, given by the students’ Associations University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.