Alberto Padovan

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Fluid Mechanics | Flow Control | Model Reduction | Dynamical Systems Theory

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I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Professor Daniel Bodony in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, I am focusing on the development of data-driven model reduction methods for fluid flows, as well as on the development and implementation of reduced-order controllers for supersonic and hypersonic wall-bounded flows. I am also part of the Center for Hypersonics & Entry Systems Studies (CHESS), where I contribute to the analysis and modelling of high-speed fluid flows over ablating materials.

I obtained my Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of Professor Clarence Rowley, and my dissertation work focused on the development of a frequency-domain formalism for the analysis, model reduction and control of fluid flows that exhibit time-periodic dynamics.

My research is computational and theoretical in nature and, broadly speaking, I am interested in studying and modelling complex fluid flows through the lens of dynamical systems and control theory.