Dr. Mariachiara Gallia

Dr. Mariachiara Gallia

Mariachiara Gallia
Dr. Mariachiara Gallia
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Hermann-Blenk-Str. 37, 38108 Braunschweig
Tel: +49 (0)531 391 94231
Fax: +49 (0)531 391 94254

Room: 113

Bio

Mariachiara Gallia is a senior scientist at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics, with a research focus on in-flight ice accretion. She obtained her Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano, with her Ph.D. research focusing on developing a numerical framework for the robust design and optimization of electro-thermal ice protection systems (ETIPS) for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. During her Ph.D., she contributed to the development of PoliMIce, an in-house software for ice accretion, and participated in the European project ICE-GENESIS to develop next-generation 3D simulation tools for icing. She currently supports the MSCA DN-JD TRACES project, co-supervising Ph.D. students and managing the design and certification exercise. Nowadays her main research interests include ice accretion, numerical simulation and optimization of ETIPS, icing wind tunnel testing measurement techniques, roughness characterization of ice shapes and their effect on convective heat transfer, uncertainty quantification, robust optimization, computational fluid dynamics, and machine learning for fluid dynamics.

Publications

  • Gallia, M., Arizmendi Gutiérrez, B., Gori, G., Guardone, A. and Congedo, P.M., 2024. Robust Optimization of a Thermal Anti-Ice Protection System in Uncertain Cloud Conditions. Journal of Aircraft, 61(1), pp.43-57. DOI: 10.2514/1.C037223
  • Sotomayor-Zakharov, D., Radenac, E., Gallia, M., Guardone, A. and Knop, I., 2024. Statistical analysis of the surface roughness on aircraft icing. Journal of Aircraft, 61(1), pp.245-256. DOI: 10.2514/1.C037403 
  • Gallia, M., Gori, G. and Guardone, A., 2023. Numerical Optimization of Electrothermal Ice Protection Systems. In Handbook of Numerical Simulation of In-Flight Icing (pp. 1123-1157). Cham: Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33845-8_37 
  • Gallia, M., Bellosta, T. and Guardone, A., 2023. Automatic roughness characterization of simulated ice shapes. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 427, p.115114. DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2023.115114 
  • Gutiérrez, B.A., Della Noce, A., Gallia, M., Bellosta, T. and Guardone, A., 2021. Numerical simulation of a thermal Ice Protection System including state-of-the-art liquid film model. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 391, p.113454. DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2021.113454
  • Gallia, M., Rausa, A., Martuffo, A. and Guardone, A., 2023. A comprehensive numerical model for numerical simulation of ice accretion and electro-thermal ice protection system in anti-icing and de-icing mode, with an ice shedding analysis (No. 2023-01-1463). SAE Technical Paper. DOI:  10.4271/2023-01-1463
  • Gallia, M., Caccia, F. and Guardone, A., 2024, June. Design and optimization of a modular Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System for a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2767, No. 5, p. 052035). IOP Publishing. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/5/052035
  • Bora, V.R., Gallia, M., Knop, I. and Guardone, A., 2023. Investigation of the Influence of Aero-Thermal Non-equilibrium Conditions of an SLD Cloud on Airfoil Icing (No. 2023-01-1406). SAE Technical Paper. DOI: 10.4271/2023-01-1406