Mauro Morelli

Ing Mauro Morelli is a research group leader at the CSIR Aeronautic Systems research group.

Expertise:

Morelli’s expertise stretch from aeronautical engineering, supersonic and transonic wind tunnel testing, to experimental aerodynamics group and wind tunnel facility suite management as well as project management.

Career background:

Morelli graduated at the University of Pisa with a degree in Aerospace Engineering. Morelli is employed at the CSIR as a wind tunnel engineer in the CSIR’s Medium Speed Wind Tunnel (MSWT). He became the MSWT facility manager and later experimental aerodynamics Research Group Leader and manager of the complete suite of CSIR aeronautical wind tunnels (4 production tunnels and 2 academic tunnels).

Detailed qualifications:

Dott. Ing. Aerospace Engineering (University of Pisa)

Professional memberships:

Royal Aeronautical Society, South African Chapter

Published research:

Research Space profile

[1] –            Buresti G., Lombardi G., Morelli M. –

Pressure Measurements on Different Canard-Wing Configurations in Subsonic Compressible Flow.

Atti del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, ADIA 91-4, ETS Editrice,Pisa, Sett. 1991.

[2a] –          Lombardi G., Morelli M. –

Pressure Measurements on a Forward-Swept Wing-Canard Configuration.

Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 31, No.2, Mar./Apr. 1994, pp. 469-472.

[2b] –         Lombardi G., Morelli M. –

Aerodynamic Experimental Analysis of Canard Configurations With a Forward Swept Wing.

in “La Ricerca e i Ricercatori della Facoltà di Ingegneria“,Pisa, 1995, pp. 403-422.

[3a] –          Lombardi G., Morelli M. –

Wind Tunnel Blockage Effects on the Agard B Model in Transonic Flow.

Proc. 19th I.C.A.S. Congress,Anaheim, Sept. 1994, pp. 2754-2764.

[3b] –         Lombardi G., Morelli M. –

Analysis of Some Interference Effects in a Transonic Wind Tunnel.

Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 32, No.3, May/June 1995, pp. 501-509.

[4] –            Lombardi G., Morelli M., Waller D. –

Flow Visualization with Shear Sensitive Liquid Crystal – Some Examples and Problems.

Proc. 7th International Symposium of Flow Visualization, (Ed.: J. Crowder),Seattle, Sept. 1995, pp. 526-531.

[5a] –          Lombardi G., Morelli M., Salvetti M.V. –

Appraisal of Numerical Methods in Predicting the Aerodynamics of Forward Sweep Wings.

AIAA Paper 96-0289, Jan. 1996.

                    Presentato al 34th AIAA Aerospaces Sciences Meeting, Reno, Jan. 1996.

[5b] –         Lombardi G., Morelli M., Salvetti M.V. –

Appraisal of Numerical Methods in Predicting the Aerodynamics of Forward Sweep Wings.

Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 35, No. 4, July/Aug. 1998.

[6a] –          Lombardi G., Morelli M., Waller D. –

Canard Influence on the Boundary Layer of a Forward Swept Wing.

Proc. of the 20th I.C.A.S. Congress, Sept. 1996, pp. 2754-2764.

[6b] –         Lombardi G., Morelli M., Waller D. –

Boundary Layer Transition on a Forward Swept Wing in Canard Configuration.

Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 33, No.6, Nov./Dec. 1996, pp. 1202-1204.

[7] –            Lombardi G., Morelli M., Waller D. –

Shear Sensitive Liquid Crystals in Subsonic and Transonic Wind Tunnel Testing.

81st AGARD Fluid Dynamics Panel Symposium on Advanced Aerodynamic Measurement Technology, Paper 27, Seattle, Sept. 1997.

[8] –            Lombardi G., Salvetti M Vittoria, Morelli M. –

Correction of the Wall Interference effects in Wind Tunnel Experiments.

10th International Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurments, 4-6 June 2001, Alicante, Spain.