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Putzu Roberto

Putzu Roberto

Professeur HES associé

Compétences principales

Mécanique des fluides

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Aérodynamique

Microgravity fluid mechanics

Aéroacoustique

Hydrogène

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Bureau: I208b

Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève
Rue de la Prairie 4, 1202 Genève, CH
hepia
Domaine
Technique et IT
Filière principale
Génie mécanique
BSc HES-SO en Génie mécanique - Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève
  • Mécanique des Fluides
  • Machines thermiques et énergétiques
  • Techniques de mesure
  • Energie
  • Mécanique des écoulements compressibles
MSc HES-SO en Engineering - HES-SO Master
  • Simulation CFD

2017

Development and preliminary evaluation of PCM thermal energy storage for air cooling in buildings
Article scientifique ArODES

Piero Pontelandolfo, Patrick Haas, Ricardo Lima, Roberto Putzu, Osmann Sari, Petri Nikkola

International Journal of Energy Production and Management,  2017, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 153-164

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Résumé:

This study presents the development of a real-scale latent heat thermal energy storage (TES) device based on an air-PCM (phase change material) heat exchanger. The device uses the outdoor ambient temperature difference between night and day to refresh the indoor air and shift or completely avoid the use of air-conditioning in air-cooling in the building sector. The design is based on an extensive set of numerical simulations, performed by the commercial software ANSYS Fluent, focused on a parametric study allowing to identify the optimum value of different design parameters in order to have 10 hours of temperature shift. The numerical simulations were supported by experimental measurements done with a small-scale test rig. Additionally, the thermal response of the PCM to cooling and heating was also studied in a controlled temperature and humidity environment.

2016

Computational fluid dynamics as a tool to predict the air pollution dispersion in a neighborhood :
Article scientifique ArODES
a research project to improve the quality of life in cities

Gilles Triscone, Nabil Abdennadher, Christophe Balistreri, Olivier Donzé, D. Greco, Patrick Haas, H. Haas-Pekoz, T. Mohamed-Nour, Pierre Munier, Piero Pontelandolfo, Roberto Putzu, Jacques Richard, H. Sthioul, Nicolas Delley, D. Choffat, Elena-Lavinia Niederhäuser, Roger Schaer, Henning Müller, Jean Decaix, Sylvain Richard, Cécile Münch-Alligné, P. Kunz, F. Despot

International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning,  2016, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 546-557

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Résumé:

In large cities, pollution composed of many different chemical components and small particles is an important public health problem that affects especially children and people presenting breathing difficulties. One challenge for public authorities is to respect the norms given by the central state, but how? Today, concrete methods for reducing pollution are perceived by the majority of citizens as constraints. However, the authorities have the possibility of modifying the wind’s action by imposing architectural constraints, such as building emplacement and roof structure. This is the main objective of the Geneva ‘Clean City’ project financed by the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland. ‘Clean City’ focuses its research on one of Geneva’s polluted neighborhood called Pâquis, which is situated directly on the Geneva lake front. The project attempts to understand the dispersion of pollution from an experimental and a numerical point of view. After validation of the technique for a simple case, we compare environmental measurements on a 1/500 3D scale model of the Pâquis installed in an instrumented wind tunnel with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation obtained with the help of cloud computing.

2020

Aeroacoustic measurements on a free-flying drone in a WindShaper wind tunnel
Conférence ArODES

Roberto Putzu, Romain Boulandet, Benjamin Rutschmann, Thierry Bujard, Flavio Noca, Catry Guillaume, Nicolas Bosson

Proceedings of Quiet drones 2020 - International e-Symposium on Noise of UAV and UAS, 19-21st October 2020, Paris, France

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Résumé:

In the near future, drone usage in inhabited areas is expected to grow exponentially. The inherent noise generated is one of the concerns for this kind of vehicle. Conventional aeroacoustic wind tunnels can be used to investigate uniform-flow generated noise. Flyers are generally solidly tethered to a sting in these wind tunnels. However, the interaction of complex environmental flows with the drone fans is expected to generate different harmonic content, especially during unsteady maneuvers. Being able to probe the aeroacoustic signature of a free-flying drone in a realistic urban and wind environment is a necessity, in particular for future certification procedures. We have developed a new family of wind tunnels, the “WindShaper” (Noca et al. 2019 Wind and Weather Facility for Testing Free-Flying Drones, AIAA Aviation Forum), able to generate complex unsteady flows reproducing environmental gusts and shear flows. The WindShaper consists of an array of a large number of fans (wind-pixels) that may be arranged in various patterns on demand. It is in some ways a digital wind facility that can be programmed to generate arbitrary winds of variable intensity and direction. Various weather conditions (such as rain, snow, hail, fog etc.) that reflect real world situations can be introduced. Drones are in a free-flight configuration (untethered) as in their natural state. These tests can rate drones according to their capacity in maintaining a proper flight attitude and tackling flight perturbations, especially in an urban environment. A WindShaper was modified in order to allow aeroacoustic measurements around a freeflying drone in a turbulent flow. Particular attention was given to a design that allows the drone aeroacoustic signature to be segregated from the aeroacoustic signature of the multi-fan facility. Details on the results achieved in this new infrastructure will be presented and discussed.

2019

REXUS Program outcomes for the University of Applied Science of Western Switzerland
Conférence ArODES

Roberto Putzu, Luca Jacopo Bardazzi, Mathias Widmer, Eric Zumbrunnen, Marco Mazza, Jonathan Hendriks

Proceedings 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA), 16-18 September 2019, Leicester, United Kingdom

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Résumé:

Since 2012, the University of Applied Science and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO) is participating in REXUS (Rocket Experiment for University Students) educational space programs on regular basis. Two teams affiliated to this institution (CAESAR, ARES II) have already flown their experiment, investigating capillary dominated flows. The two teams have been collecting relevant scientific data that were published in scientific conferences and symposia. HADES, the latest HES-SO team selected to fly its experiment on REXUS 27, is investigating space capsule reentry dynamics, and is scheduled to fly in the beginning of 2020. The most amazing outcome of these programs was the achievement of a deep sense of belonging between the team members all across the university bachelor and master degrees. A detailed description of the REXUS program outcomes for the HES-SO will be given, including scientific, educational and outreach results.

ARES II :
Conférence ArODES
axial retention experiment for propellant management devices sponges

Luca Jacopo Bardazzi, Jonathan James Hendriks, Roberto Putzu, Marco Mazza, Timothée Frei, Anthony Schluchin, Kenji Tanaka

Proceedings of 24th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, 16-20 June 2019, Essen, Germany

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Résumé:

In this paper, the authors present the scientific results of the ARES II experiment, launched on the REXUS 23 sounding rocket in March 2019 [1]. The ARES II experiment was conceived to investigate the behaviour of liquids in “sponge” type PMDs (Propellant Management Device). These devices (Figure 7), composed of radial panels tapering towards their centre to collect liquid at a certain desired position by capillarity, are used in the space propulsion community to guarantee the delivery of bubble-free propellant to the liquid propulsion engines when high reliability is needed. Sponge devices rely on surface tensions to control and deliver fluid to a desired location in microgravity environments. The capillary force is generally negligible with respect to hydrostatic one in gravitational environments. On the contrary in microgravity, where hydrostatic forces related to accelerations are much smaller than on earth, the surface tensions cannot be neglected any more. The behaviour of liquids in sponges subjected to accelerations perpendicular to their axis was investigated in the past by several authors [2][3][4]. The purpose of the ARES II experiment instead is to investigate the behaviour of liquids in sponges subjected to accelerations acting on the axis of the sponge itself. From the beginning of the 1960s surface tension PMDs were known and used in space vehicles. Though, limited general public documentation is available on this subject. In particular, about the liquid behaviour in sponges under axial acceleration, no information is available in the public domain. The purpose of this experiment is to fill this void by putting sponges in microgravity and acquiring images of the fluid distribution.

2017

Design and preliminary tests of a thermal storage device based on phase-change materials for passive air-cooling in the building sector
Conférence

Pontelandolfo Piero, Haas Patrick, Lima Ricardo, Putzu Roberto, O. Sari, N. Petri

7th International conference on Energy and Sustainability, 20.04.2017 - 22.03.2017, Seville, Spain

2015

Microgravity PMD investigations by miniaturization of the test sample
Conférence ArODES

Piero Pontelandolfo, Roberto Putzu, Alejandro De Quero

Proceedings of the 51st AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, 27-29 July 2015, Orlando, FL, USA

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Résumé:

The main objective of the presented work was to recreate the effect of a microgravity environment in conventional ground-based laboratories by decreasing the scale of the test sample. In order to assess the viability of such a technique, an experimental study of a sponge-type control PMD (Propellant management Device) was carried out. For the purpose of the study, a dedicated test rig was developed and built to perform tests at different sponge's scales at the research laboratory of fluid mechanics CMEFE of HEPIA in Geneva. The miniaturization of the sponges was performed by Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) which allowed to manufacture the miniaturized sponges. For steady state investigations, experimental tests were performed and compared with theoretical data, based on the dimensionless number analysis. In order to reproduce physical similarity of the microgravity behavior, a known Bond Number was imposed in the experimental campaigns.

Propellant management in microgravity :
Conférence ArODES
further analysis of an experiment flown on REXUS-14

David Strobino, Eric Zumbrunnen, Roberto Putzu, Piero Pontelandolfo

Proceedings of the 22nd ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, 7-12 June 2015, Tromso, Norway

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Résumé:

This paper is about the further analysis of an experiment named CAESAR (stands for Capillarity-based Experiment for Spatial Advanced Research): a sounding rocket experiment carried out by students of hepia within the REXUS program. The authors have launched on REXUS-14 a propellant management experiment based on capillarity to reliably confirm other ground-based experiments. In the framework of the present work, the authors present the comparison of CAESAR experimental data with theoretical profiles provided in literature. The objective of this flight was to place several Propellant Management Devices (PMD) in a microgravity environment and acquire images of the fluid distribution around them. The main element of the experiment, called a sponge, is a PMD for space vehicles, often used in satellites. This radial panel shaped device can be used at the bottom of a satellite tank to keep the propellant near the outlet. It is designed to work even if the vehicle undergoes small accelerations, for example during station-keeping maneuvers. The fluid is eccentric but stays on the sponge and near the outlet, so the injection system of the motor is continuously supplied with the propellant. As previously published, the authors have created a buoyancy test bench and have designed another system by magnetic levitation to perform the same experiment on earth. These systems are easier to use and less expensive than a sounding rocket, a parabolic flight or a drop tower (i.e. other system to obtain microgravity on earth), so they will be very useful to make progress in this particular domain of science. They will also allow universities with small funds to work within this spatial field. A previous publication showed, from a qualitative point of view, a good agreement between experiments and theory; however in this paper quantitative comparisons are given. With this demonstrated, hepia can validate its buoyancy test facility with real flight tests.

2014

Computational fluid dynamics as a tool to predict the air pollution dispersio in a neighborhood :
Conférence ArODES
a research project to improve the quality of life in cities

Gilles Triscone, Nabil Abdennadher, Christophe Balistreri, Olivier Donzé, Davide Greco, Patrick Haas, Hasret Haas-Peköz, Tamer Mohamed-Nour, Pierre Munier, Piero Pontelandolfo, Roberto Putzu, Hervé Sthioul, Nicolas Delley, David Choffat, Elena-Lavinia Niederhäuser, Roger Schaer, Henning Müller, Jean Decaix, Sylvain Richard, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Pierre Kunz, Fabienne Despot

Proceedings of Smart city expo world congress 2014

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Résumé:

In large cities, pollution composed of many different chemical components and small particles is an important public health problem that affects especially children and people presenting breathing difficulties. One challenge for public authorities is to respect the norms given by the central state, but how? Today, concrete methods for reducing pollution are perceived by the majority of citizens as constraints. However, the authorities have the possibility of modifying the wind's action by imposing architectural constraints, such as building emplacement and roof structure. This is the main objective of the Geneva "Clean City" project financed by the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland. "Clean City" focuses its research on one of Geneva’s polluted neighborhoods called Pâquis which is situated directly on the Geneva lake front. The project attempts to understand the dispersion of pollution from an experimental and a numerical point of view. After validation of the technique for a simple case, we compare environmental measurements on a 1/500 3D scale model of the Pâquis installed in an instrumented wind tunnel with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation obtained with the help of cloud computing. In Barcelona, we will show the first experimental measurements and simulated “Clean City” results.

Wind tunnel investigations of pollution dispersion in a scale model of a large area of the city of Geneva
Conférence ArODES

Davide Greco, Piero Pontelandolfo, Tamer Nour, Roberto Putzu

Proceedings of Air Pollution XXII, 22nd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, 7-9 July 2014, Optija, Croatia

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Résumé:

Air quality is a growing concern for the health of the global population living in large urban centres. The goal of this paper is to present methods and experiences concerning wind tunnel investigations carried out on a 1:500 scale model of a large neighbourhood of Geneva for a typical wind condition. Gas dispersion phenomena were reproduced in the wind tunnel by a mixture of air and SF6 released from 150 continuous point sources on the model building rooftops. Measurements of the 3D aerodynamic field and pollutant concentration were performed in order to validate a CFD open-source code. This experimental campaign is part of the long-term research project called Clean City and was undertaken at CMEFE laboratory of hepia (Haute Ecole du Paysage, d’Ingénierie et d’Architecture de Genève), University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland.

ARC fault in a closed container :
Conférence ArODES
CFD simulations and experimental tests on representative simple geometries

Piero Pontelandolfo, Davide Greco, Laurent Felberbaum, Ghalib Twapiah, Roberto Putzu

Proceedings of 20th international conference on gas discharges and their applications, 6-11 July 2014, Orléans, France

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Résumé:

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculations of electrical arc fault in a closed encapsulation are here compared with experimental data. The scope of the work is to understand the aerodynamic phenomena occurring when an electrical arc appears between two electrodes. The investigation focuses on both fixed and moving arc. The CFD analysis is used to identify the aerodynamic characteristics inside the encapsulation. A dedicated apparatus is designed and built to perform experimental tests.

2013

Design and construction of a silent wind tunnel for aeroacoustic research
Conférence ArODES

Roberto Putzu, Davide Greco, David Craquelin, Fabien Crisinel

Proceedings of 4th CEAS Air Space Conference, FTF Confress, Flygteknik 2013, 16-20 September 2013, Linköping, Sweden

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Résumé:

The anechoic chamber of "hepia - Genève" was modified with the purpouse to host a removable wind tunnel for aeroacoustic research. This paper describes in detail the design and construction of this small scale, low Mach number, silent wind tunnel. Special attention is given to a detailed description of the technical challanges faced.

2010

Experimental investigation of windmills aerodynamics, torque regulation by use of elastic bindings
Conférence ArODES

Roberto Putzu, Pierre-Louis Schmitt, Anthony Haroutunian

Proceedings of AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 28 June - 1 July 2010, Chicago, USA

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Résumé:

In the framework of the Patmos windmills Restoration, an experimental investigation of the rotor aerodynamics was considered necessary for the windmill regulation. Historically, at high wind speed, the windmill’s shaft torque was regulated by manually rolling the triangular sails around their own spoke to reduce the lifting surface and decrease the aerodynamic loads. Continuous changes in wind speed could demand frequent human interventions on the rolled surface. In order to reduce these interventions, a self regulation mechanism involving the use of an elastic binding instead of a classical rope to tighten the sail was investigated. The analysis, performed in Reynolds similarity considering a constant real rotor speed of ! = 1.57 rad/s and a maximum real wind speed of 15.4 m/s, was conducted on the statical model of a single windmill blade in reduced scale. Tests were performed for several sail rolling conditions: with a rigid rope and with elastic stripes binding the sail to the blade frame. Results show that the increase in aerodynamic torque due to wind rise can be reduced by using elastic bindings.

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