Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Federica Ferraro

Research group leader: Reactive Flows in Aero Engines

E-Mail-address: federica.ferraro[at]tu-braunschweig.de

Room: 210
Phone: +49 531 391 94230

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Scopus Author-ID: 56895729000
Web of Science: ABE-2462-2021
ORCID: 0000-0002-3541-2617

Research Focus

My research focuses on combustion and reactive multi-phase flow modeling and simulations to advance the transition to sustainable aviation and energy technologies.

My research interests include:

Oxidation and pollutant formation from carbon-neutral and carbon-free fuels, including Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), hydrogen and ammonia;
Turbulence–chemistry interaction modeling using statistical methods;
Machine-learning approaches for combustion;
Flame-retardant effects on flame spread over polymeric surfaces.

I have contributed to the fundamental understanding of soot formation in a real-scale gas turbine combustor and laboratory oxymethylene ether flames, thermo-diffusive instabilities in hydrogen-enriched flames, and the numerical modeling of turbulent reactive multiphase flows using Large-Eddy Simulations and the Method of Moments.

Awards

Athene Young Investigator 2023, TU Darmstadt
Best Paper Award in the “Combustion, Fuel, and Emissions” session at the 2023 ASME Turbo Expo 2023 for the work “Large Eddy Simulation of Soot Formation in a Real Aero-Engine Combustor Using Tabulated Chemistry and a Quadrature-Based Method of Moments” (GT2023-101148). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063376