Norberto Nigro's Home-Page

• Ordinary mail
  • CIMEC, Predio Conicet “Dr Alberto Cassano”
    Colectora Ruta Nac 168 s/n - Paraje El Pozo
    (3000) Santa Fe, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina (work)
  • +54 - 342 - 4511594 (ext. 7050) (work)
• Mail: norberto.nigro at cimec dot santafe-conicet dot gov dot ar
• Home-Page: https://www.cimec.org.ar/nnigro

• Development of some stabilization techniques for CFD compressible and incompressible codes. A unified approach to solve compressible and incompressible flows using finite element.
• Development of a coupled thermal and turbulent fluid flow code for solidification problems using finite element method, a computational code to predict segregation for binary alloys in continuous casting processes. A turbulent two-phase flow (gas-liquid) application to predict emulsification in the ladle furnace for the steel production
• Development of a thermodynamics and gas dynamics based model to simulate the performance of spark ignition internal combustion engines, in particular oriented to engine tuning. Optimal cam design for racing cars using multi-body system.
• Study of numerical simulation for coastal hydrodynamic problems and shallow water.
• PETSc-FEM, a code for large scale CFD simulation on a Beowulf cluster. (https://cimec.org.ar/petscfem)
• Development of an application for turbulent compressible and incompressible flow using LES and k-epsilon model in PETSc-FEM code.
• Development of moving domain CFD applications using ALE strategy. Applications to several fluid-structure interactions, flutter and vortex induced vibrations. Design of novel strategies to solve the mesh dynamics.
• Development of vehicle aerodynamics CFD application using LES turbulence model
• Development of a multiphase flow code in PETSc-FEM using a multifluid and an algebraic slip mixture model for bubbly and annular flow in gas liquid systems.
• Experience in granular flow in gas-solid systems applied to oil refining and piping erosion using CFX and Fluent. Solution of industrial problems.
• Development of thermo-mechanical models for valves of internal combustion engines. In-cylinder flow simulation of internal combustion engines using ALE to predict tumble, swirl and squish fluid dynamics patterns.
• Development of vehicle aerodynamics and dynamics interactions using CFD and Bond Graphs.
• Experience in solving VOF multiphase models using Fluent applied to ship hydrodynamics design.
• Experience in solving single phase and multiphase flows using openFOAM (pimpleFoam, rhoPimpleFoam, interFoam, interDyMFoam, twoPhaseEulerFoam and many others)
• Developer and Contributor of Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) (see CIMNE site for details)
• Developer of ICESym internal combustion engine simulator (http://code.google.com/icesym)

• vonKarman_Re1000_modV.avi: Von Karman streets mod velocity Re=100 PFEM 2

• vonKarman_Re_1000_completo_comp.avi: Streak lines for Von Karman streets - Re = 100 - PFEM 2

• CVEuropass-NORBERTO_NIGRO.pdf: Vitae of Norberto Marcelo Nigro (European version)

• Norberto_Nigro_2008_Pompidou:
  

• CV_Norberto_M_Nigro.pdf: CV_January_2024