Enrico Anfuso

Enrico Anfuso is a doctoral student and external employee at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, specializing in Applied Mechanics and Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. His research focuses on aerothermodynamic phenomena in plasma wind tunnels, particularly for hypersonic atmospheric entry applications.

Research Areas: Plasma jets, plasmatrons, traveling waves, atmospheric entry, hydrodynamics, decomposition, jet flow, and high-speed camera analysis. His work integrates chemical models into enthalpy rebuilding procedures and explores uncertainty analysis in hypersonic aerodynamics.

Publications: Recent articles address free-stream characterization techniques for plasma jets, enthalpy rebuilding methodologies, and multiscale modal analysis of coherent structures in plasma flows. These studies highlight advancements in plasma wind tunnel diagnostics and computational modeling.

Scientific Awards:

• FWO scholarship (FWOSB128), 2022

Professional Activities: Delivered presentations at conferences and workshops on topics such as thermochemical state analysis via optical emission spectroscopy, Bayesian frameworks for plasma wind tunnel modeling, and Sobol' indices analysis for chemical model evaluation.