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Massimiliano Fatica

I am now with ClearSpeed, as Senior Solutions Architect.

New contact info:

Clearspeed Technology
20 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Suite C
Los Gatos , CA 95030 USA
Tel. (408) 395-3850
Fax. (408) 395-7045

e-mail: fatica@ctr.stanford.edu
( I am still reading the old email address, the new one is spam free and I am not going to post it on the web..... )

I am a senior research associate with a joint appointment at Center for Turbulence Research
and Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulations .
I am also responsible for the computational environment of these two centers.
I am one of the instructor of CS238 (Numerical methods on parallel machines).
My current work is on the Stanford Streaming Supercomputer project.

Interest:

High performance computing
Large Eddy Simulation

Education:

Dr. Ing., Aeronautical Engineering, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 1991.
Ph. D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 1995.

Skills:

Unix guru (Irix, Linux , MacOSX and in the past AIX, Digital Unix, Nexstep and Solaris)
Fortran77 and 90, MPI, PVM and OpenMP. I can also hack C,C++, Java.
I don't do Windows (yes, it is a skill!!!)

Recent Talks :

M. Fatica, Towards a Petaflop machine: The Merrimac project .
presented at CASPUR , Rome Italy , June 15 2003.
M. Fatica, Code Performance Analysis.
presented at ASCI TST Meeting , Stanford , May 8 2003.
M. Fatica and A. Wray, Brooktran: A Fortran extension for streaming architectures .
presented at Merrimac Meeting , Stanford , April 8 2003.

Selected Publications:

R. Verzicco, M. Fatica, G. Iaccarino and P. Orlandi
Flow in an Impeller-Stirred Tank Using an Immersed-Boundary Method.
AIChE Journal, June 2004 , Vol. 50, No. 6.
A. Jameson and M. Fatica
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics for Aerodynamics.
White paper, National Research Council Workshop on "The Future of Supercomputing", Santa Fe, NM, September 24-25 2003.
M. Fatica, A. Jameson and J. J. Alonso
StreamFLO: an Euler Solver for Streaming Architectures.
AIAA Paper 2004-1090, 42nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit Conference, Reno, January 2004.
W. C. Reynolds, J. J. Alonso, M. Fatica
Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Simulation.
16th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando, FL, June 23-26, 2003.
R. Verzicco, M. Fatica, G. Iaccarino, P. Moin and B. Khalighi
Large Eddy Simulation of a Road Vehicle with Drag Reduction Devices.
AIAA Journal vol.4 Num. 12 , pp. 2447--2455, (2002).
W. C. Reynolds, M. Fatica
Stanford Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulations.
Computing in Science and Engineering vol.1 Num. 2 , pp. 22--31, (2000).
H-J. Kaltenbach, M. Fatica, R. Mittal, T.S. Lund and P. Moin
Study of flow in a planar asymmetric diffuser using large-eddy simulation .
Journal of Fluid Mechanics vol. 390, pp. 151--187, (1999).
P. Orlandi, M. Fatica
PCH05: Rotating Turbulent Pipe Flow Simulation
A selection of Test Case for the Validation of Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Flows
AGARD Advisory Report 345, April 1998.
P. Orlandi, M. Fatica
Direct simulations of a turbulent pipe rotating along the axis .
Journal of Fluid Mechanics vol. 343, pp. 43--72, (1997).
Scotti A, Meneveau C. and Fatica M.
Dynamic Smagorinsky model on anisotropic grid.
Physics of Fluids vol 9(#6),pp. 1856-1858 (1997)
Verzicco R., Iafrati A., Riccardi G. and Fatica M.
Analysis of the sound generated by the pairing of two axisymmetrical co-rotating vortex rings.
Journal of Sound and Vibration vol. 200 (#3), pp. 347-358 (1997)
M. Briscolini, M. Fatica
Direct numerical simulations of turbulent pipe flow via a portable message-passing code.
Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Algorithms and Results Using Advanced Computers,
ed. Schiano, Ecer, Periaux and Satofuka, Elsevier Science (1997)
M. Fatica, P. Orlandi & R. Verzicco
Direct and Large Eddy Simulations of Round Jets
Direct and Large Eddy Simulation I
ed. Voke, Kleiser and Chollet, Kluwer Academic Publisher (1995)