Dr Sergio Campobasso

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

Dr Campobasso took up a Senior Lectureship in Renewable Energy Engineering at Lancaster University in January 2013. He gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Turbomachinery from the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (Belgium) in 1996, and a PhD in Numerical Analysis from Oxford University in 2004. He worked as aerodynamicist and stress engineer with the German aircraft engine manufacturer BMW-Rolls Royce, and in this period he participated to the development of the Trent 500 turbofan engine. He spent six years at the Rolls-Royce Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) University Technology Centre within the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he developed crucial parts of the linear and adjoint solvers of the main CFD code of the Rolls-Royce aerodynamic aeroelastic and aeroacoustic turbomachinery design system. At Cranfield University, Dr. Campobasso worked on uncertainty propagation for robust conceptual aircraft design, and at Glasgow University he started a new research programme focusing on wind turbine aerodynamic, aeroelastic and structural design based on nonlinear frequency-domain Navier-Stokes CFD.

The research activities of Dr Campobasso focus on the design, implementation and demonstration of CFD technologies aimed at improving wind and gas turbine design, taking into account stochastic uncertainty sources arising from manufacturing and assembly tolerances, and also the environment variability. His main objectives are to develop accurate and ultra-fast high-fidelity analysis and design methods based on the Navier-Stokes equations. His present research activities include: the development of a harmonic balance NS solver for the rapid analysis of unsteady flows and general fluid/structure interaction problems; the development of low-speed preconditioning methods for the analysis of flows featuring simultaneously high and very-low speeds; the development of novel, more accurate boundary conditions for the analysis of the flow field in complex turbomachinery geometries; and the investigation of hybrid parallelization technologies based on the combination of shared and distributed parallel computing.

Development of a Compact Hydro Energy Device for Agricultural and Horticultural Sectors
01/10/2023 → 30/11/2024
Research

Opensource machine learning metamodels for assessing wind turbine energy losses due to blade erosion and support turbine predictive maintenance
01/05/2023 → 30/06/2024
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Streamlined parallel I/O and fluid/structure interaction functionalities in Navier-Stokes ARCTIC and COSA codes for renewable energy and propulsion applications
01/07/2022 → 31/12/2023
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Green multi-rotor systems: a pre-exascale mulit-code framework for rotor-resolved analysis and design of floating wind farm and multi-propeller electrical aircraft propulsion
04/10/2021 → 03/10/2022
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Development and validation of a high-fidelity Computational Flid Dynamics framework for analysing and reducing emissions of industrial gas burners
04/01/2021 → 30/12/2023
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Extreme Loading on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) under Complex Environmental Conditions
02/03/2020 → 01/03/2023
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Parametric modelling of complex erosion damage patterns of wind turbine blade leading edges
01/01/2020 → 31/03/2021
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Aerodynamic design of commercial wind turbines based on unsteady Navier-Stokes computational fluid dynamics
18/09/2017 → 28/12/2018
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Three-dimensional unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelasticity of wind turbine rotors based on the COSA time-domain and harmonic balance Navier-Stokes code. from
07/04/2015 → 26/06/2015
Other

Reducing the runtime and improving the ease-of-use and portability of the COSA 3D harmonic balance Navier-Stokes solver for open rotor unsteady aerodynamics
19/01/2015 → 18/01/2016
Other

CFD-based assessment of hydrokinetic and wind turbine power production in real flow conditions
01/05/2014 → 28/02/2015
Other

Variable-fidelity robust aerodynamic design of wind turbine rotors
01/09/2011 → 31/03/2015
Research

Advancing a simulation-based framework for estimating offshore wind turbine energy losses due to blade surface damage towards real-life applicability.
01/01/1900 → …
Research

  • Energy
  • Energy Lancaster
  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Fundamentals
  • Renewables