Daniele Massaro

Daniele Massaro is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Fluid Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under Prof. Wim van Rees. His research focuses on vortex dynamics in wall-bounded flows and transitional/turbulent shear flows using space-adaptive direct numerical simulations. He holds a PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), where he studied wall turbulence with Prof. Philipp Schlatter and Lect. Saleh Rezaeiravesh, and a MSc/BSc from Politecnico di Milano. His expertise spans computational fluid dynamics, adaptive mesh refinement, and turbulence modeling.

Education:

• Bachelor and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
• PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Fluid mechanics, vortex dynamics, turbulence, numerical methods (spectral elements, adaptive meshing), and applications to wind turbines, biological flows, and adjoint-based optimization. He employs techniques like Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and transfer entropy to analyze flow dynamics.

Teaching: Taught Classical Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Engineering Fluid Mechanics at KTH (2020–2024), supervising a Master's thesis. His work integrates computational tools like Nek5000 and modern Fortran for high-performance simulations.

Labs/Teams: Active in MIT's Mechanical Engineering research groups, focusing on turbulence and vortex dynamics. Collaborates on projects involving adaptive mesh refinement and GPU-accelerated simulations.