Research axes

SIMULATIONS

DISCRETE: atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics
CONTINUUM: OpenFOAM, Fluent, COMSOL, in-house codes
Numerical methods: lattice Boltzmann and Artificial Compressibility methods

 

Collaboration network

 

 

Selected publications

M. Alberghini, M. Morciano, M. Fasano, F. Bertiglia, V. Fernicola, P. Asinari, E. Chiavazzo, Multistage and passive cooling process driven by salinity difference, Science Advances 6 (2020) 11.

 

E. Chiavazzo, M. Morciano, F. Viglino, M. Fasano, P. Asinari, Passive solar high-yield seawater desalination by modular and low-cost distillation, Nature Sustainability 1 (2018) 763-772.

 

M. Fasano, T. Humplik, A. Bevilacqua, M. Tsapatsis, E. Chiavazzo, E. N. Wang, P. Asinari, Interplay between hydrophilicity and surface barriers on water transport in zeolite membranes, Nature Communications 7 (2016) 12762.

 

E. Chiavazzo, M. Fasano, P. Asinari, P. Decuzzi, Scaling behaviour for the water transport in nanoconfined geometries, Nature Communications 5 (2014) 3565.

 

E. Chiavazzo, R. Covino, R. R. Coifman, C. W. Gear, A. S. Georgiou, G. Hummer, I. G. Kevrekidis, Intrinsic map dynamics exploration for uncharted effective free-energy landscapes, PNAS 2017 114 (28) E5494-E5503.

 

P. Asinari, T. Ohwada, E. Chiavazzo, A. F. Di Rienzo, Link-wise artificial compressibility method, Journal of Computational Physics 231:(15) (2012) 5109-5143.