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Dr.-Ing. Davide Gatti
Senior Scientist
Raum: 605
Tel.: +49 721 608-44179
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Institut für Strömungsmechanik
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Kaiserstraße 10, Geb. 10.23
76131 Karlsruhe
Tel.: +49 721 608 42368
Fax: +49 721 608 45147

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Research interests

  • Unsteady turbulent flow

  • Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction

  • Computational fluid dynamics and parallel scientific computing

  • Flow control over wing sections

  • Smart material and structures for flow control applications

Projects

Journal Publications


2020
Aerodynamic Effects of Uniform Blowing and Suction on a NACA4412 Airfoil.
Atzori, M.; Vinuesa, R.; Fahland, G.; Stroh, A.; Gatti, D.; Frohnapfel, B.; Schlatter, P.
2020. Flow, turbulence and combustion. doi:10.1007/s10494-020-00135-z
Do riblets exhibit fully rough behaviour?.
Gatti, D.; von Deyn, L.; Forooghi, P.; Frohnapfel, B.
2020. Experiments in fluids, 61 (3), Article: 81. doi:10.1007/s00348-020-2921-0
2019
On the stages of vortex decay in an impulsively stopped, rotating cylinder.
Kaiser, F.; Frohnapfel, B.; Ostilla-Mónico, R.; Kriegseis, J.; Rival, D. E.; Gatti, D.
2019. Journal of fluid mechanics, 885, A6. doi:10.1017/jfm.2019.974
Quantification of amplitude modulation in wall-bounded turbulence.
Dogan, E.; Örlü, R.; Gatti, D.; Vinuesa, R.; Schlatter, P.
2019. Fluid dynamics research, 51 (1), Art. Nr.: 011408. doi:10.1088/1873-7005/aaca81
An efficient numerical method for the generalised Kolmogorov equation.
Gatti, D.; Remigi, A.; Chiarini, A.; Cimarelli, A.; Quadrio, M.
2019. Journal of turbulence, 20 (8), 457–480. doi:10.1080/14685248.2019.1664746
Stokes-layer formation under absence of moving parts - A novel oscillatory plasma actuator design for turbulent drag reduction.
Hehner, M. T.; Gatti, D.; Kriegseis, J.
2019. Physics of fluids, 31 (5), Art.-Nr.: 051701. doi:10.1063/1.5094388
2018
Predicting Turbulent Spectra in Drag-reduced Flows.
Gatti, D.; Stroh, A.; Frohnapfel, B.; Hasegawa, Y.
2018. Flow, turbulence and combustion, 100 (4), 1081–1099. doi:10.1007/s10494-018-9920-8
Global energy fluxes in turbulent channels with flow control.
Gatti, D.; Cimarelli, A.; Hasegawa, Y.; Frohnapfel, B.; Quadrio, M.
2018. Journal of fluid mechanics, 857, 345–373. doi:10.1017/jfm.2018.749
2017
Turbulent Duct Flow Controlled with Spanwise Wall Oscillations.
Straub, S.; Vinuesa, R.; Schlatter, P.; Frohnapfel, B.; Gatti, D.
2017. Flow, turbulence and combustion, 99 (3-4), 787–806. doi:10.1007/s10494-017-9846-6
2016
Reynolds-number dependence of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction induced by spanwise forcing.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.
2016. Journal of fluid mechanics, 802 (2), 553–582. doi:10.1017/jfm.2016.485
2014
The dielectric breakdown limit of silicone dielectric elastomer actuators.
Gatti, D.; Haus, H.; Matysek, M.; Frohnapfel, B.; Tropea, C.; Schlaak, H. F.
2014. Applied physics letters, 104 (5), 052905. doi:10.1063/1.4863816
2013
Performance losses of drag-reducing spanwise forcing at moderate values of the Reynolds number.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.
2013. Physics of fluids, 25 (12), Art.Nr.: 125109. doi:10.1063/1.4849537

Conference Contributions


2020
Virtual wall oscillations forced by a DBD plasma actuator operating under beat frequency - a concept for turbulent drag reduction.
Hehner, M. T.; Gatti, D.; Mattern, P.; Kotsonis, M.; Kriegseis, J.
2020. AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, Virginia. doi:10.2514/6.2020-2956
2019
Production, Transport and Dissipation of Turbulent Stresses Across Scales and Space.
Gatti, D.; Chiarini, A.; Cimarelli, A.; Frohnapfel, B.; Quadrio, M.
2019. Progress in Turbulence VIII – Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2018. Ed.: R. Örlü, 119–124, Springer International Publishing, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22196-6_19
RANS Untersuchungen zur Strömungskontrolle in turbulenter Grenzschicht von Flügelprofilen.
Fahland, G.; Stroh, A.; Gatti, D.; Frohnapfel, B.
2019, November 6. 19. STAB Workshop (2019), Göttingen, Deutschland, 5.–6. November 2019
Investigation of turbulent budgets in channels with secondary motions induced by streamwise-aligned ridges.
Schäfer, K.; Stroh, A.; Frohnapfel, B.; Gatti, D.
2019. 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP11), Southampton, UK, July 30 - August 2, 2019
RANS Investigation of Blowing and Suction for Turbulent Flow Control on a Wing Section.
Fahland, G.; Gatti, D.; Frohnapfel, B.; Stroh, A.; Atzori, M.; Vinuesa, R.; Schlatter, P.
2019, März 28. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting (EDRFCM 2019), Bad Herrenalb, Deutschland, 26.–29. März 2019
Plasma-induced oscillatory forces as a concept for small-scale turbulence control.
Hehner, M. T.; Gatti, D.; Kriegseis, J.
2019. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting (EDRFCM 2019), Bad Herrenalb, Deutschland, 26.–29. März 2019
Turbulent channel flows with secondary motions: a concerted DNS and experimental study.
Deyn, L. von; Örlü, R.; Stroh, A.; Gatti, D.; Kriegseis, J.; Frohnapfel, B.
2019. 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP11), Southampton, UK, July 30 - August 2, 2019
Riblets in fully developed turbulent channel flow - An experimental campaign.
Deyn, L. H. von; Coppini, L.; Hehner, M. T.; Kriegseis, J.; Gatti, D.; Forooghi, P.; Frohnapfel, B.
2019. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting (EDRFCM 2019), Bad Herrenalb, Deutschland, 26.–29. März 2019
2018
Kann homogenes Ausblasen die aerodynamische Effizienz eines Flügelprofils erhöhen?.
Reder, M.; Stroh, A.; Gatti, D.
2018, November 6. 21st DGLR-FAch-Symposium der STAB (2018), Darmstadt, Deutschland, 6.–7. November 2018
Alternative ways of looking at scale interaction in wall turbulence.
Gatti, D.
2018. FLOW Seminar (2018), Stockholm, Schweden, 17.–18. Oktober 2018
Space and scale fluxes of Reynolds stresses in turblent channel flows.
Chiarini, A.; Frohnapfel, B.; Quadrio, M.; Cimarelli, A.; Hasegawa, Y.; Gatti, D.
2018. 89. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM 2018), München, Deutschland, 19.–23. März 2018
Integral energy budgets in turbulent channels with and without drag reduction.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.; Hasegawa, Y.; Frohnapfel, B.; Cimarelli, A.
2018. 89. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM 2018), München, Deutschland, 19.–23. März 2018
Production, transport and dissipation of turbulent stresses across scales and space.
Gatti, D.; Chiarini, A.; Cimarelli, A.; Quadrio, M.
2018, September. VIII. Conference on Turbulence (iTi 2018), Bertinoro, Italien, 5.–7. September 2018
2017
Scale energy fluxes in turbulent channels with drag reduction at constant power input.
Gatti, D.; Remigi, A.; Cimarelli, A.; Hasegawa, Y.; Frohnapfel, B.; Quadrio, M.
2017. 16th European Turbulence Conference (ETC 2017), Stockholm, Schweden, 21.–24. August 2017
Boundary Layer Characterization during Impulsive Spin-up and Spin-down Motions of High-Reynolds Number Rotating Flow.
Burg, M. von der; Kaiser, F.; Gatti, D.; Schmidt, B.; Sommeria, J.; Viboud, S.; Rival, D. E.; Kriegseis, J.
2017. Experimentelle Strömungsmechanik : 25. Fachtagung, Karlsruhe, 5.-7. September 2017, Karlsruhe / Ed.: B. Ruck, 25, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Laser-Anemometrie GALA, Karlsruhe
Formation and Decay of Vorticity in Implusively Stopped Infinite Cylinders.
Kaiser, F.; Gatti, D.; Frohnapfel, B.; Kriegseis, J.
2017. 16th European Turbulence Conference (ETC 2017), Stockholm, Schweden, 21.–24. August 2017
Study of Energetics in Drag-Reduced Turbulent Channel Flows.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.; Cimarelli, A.; Hasegawa, Y.; Frohnapfel, B.
2017. Progress in Turbulence VII : Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2016 Ed.: R. Örlü, 219–225, Springer International Publishing, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57934-4_31
Mean Impulse Response in a Turbulent Channel Flow.
Codrignani, A.; Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.
2017. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting (EDRFCM), MontePorzio Catone (near Rome), Italy, 3-6 April 2017
Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction from the energetic viewpoint.
Gatti, D.
2017. Fluid Structure Interacion and Modeling, Napoli, May 22-26, 2017
Energy transfer rates in turbuelnt channels with drag reduction at constant power input.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.; Hasegawa, Y.; Frohnapfel, B.; Cimarelli, A.
2017. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, 3-6 April 2017, Monte Porzio Catone, Rome, Italy
Turbulent Superstructures in Controlled Flows.
Gatti, D.; Stroh, A.; Hasegawa, Y.; Frohnapfel, B.
2017. 88th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanic (GAMM), 06.-10.03.2017, Weimar, Germany, (2017)
Near-Wall Turbulence Damping in Wall-Bounded Flows.
Stroh, A.; Gatti, D.; Frohnapfel, B.
2017. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Rome, Italy, April 3-6, 2017
2016
Inner-outer layer interaction in drag-reduced turbulent channel flows.
Gatti, D.; Stroh, A.; Frohnapfel, B.; Hasegawa, Y.
2016. 11th European Fluid Mechanics Conference (EFMC 2016), Sevilla, Spanien, 13.–16. September 2016
Vorticity Propagation for Spin-up and Spin-down in a Rotating Tank.
Kaiser, F.; Wahl, T.; Gatti, D.; Rival, D. E.; Kriegseis, J.
2016. 18th International Symposium on the Application of Laser and Imaging Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, July, 4-7, 2016, 1–18, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Influence of drag reducing near-wall turbulence control on spectral properties of Reynolds shear stress.
Stroh, A.; Gatti, D.; Hasegawa, Y.; Frohnapfel, B.
2016. 11th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements, September 21-23, 2016, Palermo, Italy
Study of Energetics in drag-reduced turbulent channel flows.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.; Cimarelli, A.; Hasegawa, Y.; Frohnapfel, B.
2016. Interdisciplinary Turbulence Initiative, Bertinoro, Italy, September 7-9, 2016
Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction at high Reynolds numbers.
Gatti, D.
2016. High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2016: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2016. Hrsg.: Wolfgang E. Nagel, 389–398, Springer, Berlin
Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction in the constant power input framework.
Gatti, D.; Frohnapfel, B.; Cimarelli, A.; Quadrio, M.; Hasegawa, Y.
2016. Joint annual meeting of GAMM and DMV : Braunschweig, Germany, March 7-11, 2016
Inner-outer layer interaction in drag-reduced turbulent channel flows.
Gatti, D.; Stroh, A.; Frohnapfel, B.; Hasegawa, Y.
2016. 11th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Sevilla, Spain, September 12-16, 2016
Direct numerical simulation of controlled turbulent duct flows.
Straub, S.; Vinuesa, R.; Schlatter, P.; Frohnapfel, B.; Gatti, D.
2016. Joint DMV and GAMM Annual Meeting, March 7-11, 2016, Braunschweig, Germany
Turbulent duct flow with spanwise wall oscillations.
Straub, S.; Vinuesa, R.; Schlatter, P.; Frohnapfel, B.; Gatti, D.
2016. 11th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements, September 21-23, 2016, Palermo, Italy
2015
Skin-friction drag reduction by spanwise forcing: the Reynolds-number effect.
Quadrio, M.; Gatti, D.
2015. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, EDRFCM, 23-26 March 2015, Cambridge, UK
Drag-reducing wall oscillations via dielectric elastomer actuators in duct flows.
Gatti, D.; Güttler, A.; Tropea, C.; Frohnapfel, B.
2015. European drag reduction and flow control meeting, EDRFCM, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 23-26 March, 2015
Reynolds number effect on turbulent drag reduction.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.; Frohnapfel, B.
2015. 15th European Turbulence Conference, Delft, Netherlands, August 25-28th, 2015
2014
Dielectric Electroactive Polymers for drag-reducing wall oscillations in low- Reynolds turbulent channel flows.
Gatti, D.; Güttler, A.; Quadrio, M.; Schlaak, H. F.; Tropea, C.; Frohnapfel, B.
2014. 10th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14 - 18 September 2014
2013
Effectiveness of spanwise forcing for turbulent drag reduction at higher Re.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.; Tropea, C.; Frohnapfel, B.
2013. XIV Euromech Turbulence Conference, Lyon, France, 2-4 September, 2013
2012
What happens to turbulent drag reduction at higher Re.
Gatti, D.; Quadrio, M.
2012. 9th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference, Roma, Italy, 9 – 13 September, 2012

Betreute studentische Arbeiten

  1. Masterarbeit von Marion Cormier (2016): "Analyse turbulent flows via Empirical Mode Decomposition"
  2. Bachelorarbeit von Rachel See (2016) : "Measure skin-friction accurately in a new wind-tunnel facility"
  3. Masterarbeit von Steffen Straub (2015): "Direct numerical simulation of controlled turbulent duct flows"

Vorlesungen

1) Mathematical Methods in Fluid Dynamics
2) Fluid Mechanics with Matlab
3) Vortex Dynamics