Contact Dr Davide Di Pasquale
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- Email: davide.dipasquale@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Aircraft Design
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Flight Physics
Background
Davide Di Pasquale graduated as a MEng Aeronautical from the University of Palermo, Italy in April 2004. In 2005 he obtained an MSc in Space Transportation Systems from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". After the Master, he was employed as researcher under contract with the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. Most of the research work was undertaken in the premises of ELV/AVIO S.p.A. an Italian aerospace Industry, where he performed research activity on different aspect of the Vega launcher (ESA Project) during its design phase. In March 2007 he was awarded a 33 months Marie Curie fellowship for Early Stage Researcher Training at the Department of Engineering, University of Leicester. In February 2010 he was awarded of an HPC-Europa 2 grant Transnational Access Fellowship with the project title 'CFD Transition on distributed memory' at CINECA, Italy.
In February 2015, he was appointed as Research Assistant at Cranfield University in the Centre for Propulsion Engineering. As part of this role, he worked as subcontractor at Airbus, Filton UK, for several years, mainly on developing new capability for aerodynamic optimisation. In 2017 He was appointed as Research Fellow in the Centre for Aeronautics and currently he is Lecturer in Aerodynamics and has been involved in several UK, EU and NATO research projects. Dr Davide Di Pasquale latest work has been focused on a range of multi-objective optimisation developments, and virtual test bed simulations for aircraft design. He collaborates closely with others at Cranfield on multi-disciplinary computational engineering design optimisation for minimising the impact of aviation on the environment; embracing emission studies, such as Boundary Layer Ingestion technologies. He also continues to work in cooperation with colleagues at a number of other UK institutions; currently with a main focus on aircraft/engine performance and integration, high-lift and novel configurations, aerodynamic noise, and flow control.
Additionally, he acts as reviewer for the the Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Journal and The Aeronautical Journal.
Current activities
Currently working on different Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) projects led by Airbus and on a NATO applied vehicle technology project.
Clients
- Airbus SE
- GKN Ltd
- Oxford Dynamics Ltd
- Research in Flight Co
- ACCURIS (ESDU)
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Di Pasquale D & Prince S. (2023). Passive transonic shock control on bump flow for wing buffet suppression. Aerospace, 10(6)
- Kim T, Kipouros T, Brintrup A, Farnfield J & Di Pasquale D. (2022). Optimisation of aero-manufacturing characteristics of aircraft ribs. The Aeronautical Journal, 126(1299)
- Di Pasquale D & Savill M. (2022). The importance of coupling aerodynamic and cost analysis in aircraft design. CEAS Aeronautical Journal, 13(4)
- Di Pasquale D, Gore D, Savill MA, Kipouros T & Holden C. (2019). Aircraft cost modelling, integrated in a multidisciplinary design context. Engineering and Applied Sciences, 4(6)
Conference Papers
- Prince SA, Rana ZA, Di Pasquale D, Podwojewski C & Zielinski T. (2025). CFD modelling and simulation on a lambda wing at subsonic speed
- Toprakoglu F, Ozyumruoglu I, Rana ZA & Di Pasquale D. (2025). Impact of whale tubercles on the aerodynamics characteristics of F1 front wing - adjoint optimization
- Di Pasquale D. (2024). CFD study of shock bump roughness for transonic shock control and buffet alleviation
- Di Pasquale D, Tarun T, Shubham S, Prince SA & Proenca A. (2024). COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECTS OF LEADING EDGE TUBERCLES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ROTATING PROPELLER
- Francannet A, Prince SA, Di Pasquale D & Proenca A. (2023). Feasibility of a spinning cylinder on the leading and trailing edges of a flap for high lift
- Huynh D, Di Pasquale D, Prince SA & Ahuja V. (2023). Application of a semi-empirical method to model subsonic vortex lift over sharp leading-edge delta wings
- Bourny Q, Proenca A, Di Pasquale D & Prince SA. (2023). Analysis of triangular cross-section slender bodies in supersonic regime using RANS simulations
- Di Pasquale D, Verma D & Pagliuca G. (2021). Blended wing body (BWB) planform multidisciplinary optimisation (MDO) for early stage aircraft design using model based engineering
- Di Pasquale D & Bolart C. (2021). Validating surrogate models and incorporating uncertainty quantification in multi-element airfoil design optimisation
- Prince SA, Di Pasquale D & Garry KP. (2020). Progress towards a rapid method for conceptual aerodynamic design for transonic cruise
- Garry K, Di Pasquale D, Prince SA & Lawson NJ. (2018). The influence of high-speed SPIV data processing parameters on aircraft wing vortex wake assessment
- Prince SA, Di Pasquale D, Garry K & Nuzzo C. (2018). A rapid aerodynamic prediction method for unconventional transonic aircraft configurations
- Garry K, Di Pasquale D, Prince SA & Lawson NJ. (2018). The influence of high-speed SPIV data processing parameters on aircraft wing vortex wake assessment
- Soares RF, Garry K, Holt J & Di Pasquale D. (2018). A wake analysis of four DrivAer configurations: on the experimental measurements using total pressure rake
- Di Pasquale Davide , Gore David , Savill Mark & Kipouros Timoleon . (2017). Multi-Disciplinary Integrated Aircraft Cost Suite for Optimisation Study
- Di Pasquale D, Cross M, Savill M & Kipouros T. (2017). Automated multi-objective surrogate based optimisation for high lift airfoil under kinematic constraint
- Di Pasquale Davide , Gore David , Savill Mark , Kipouros Timoleon & Holden Carren . (2016). Cost Modelling for Aircraft in a Multi-Disciplinary Design Context
- Di Pasquale D, Zhu F, Cross M, Savill MA & Kipouros T. (2016). Integrated system to perform surrogate based aerodynamic optimisation for high-lift airfoil
- Di Pasquale D, Holden C, Kipouros T & Savill M. (2014). An automatic aerodynamic design process in an industrial Multi-Disciplinary context
- Di Pasquale D & Rona A. (2010). Data assessment of two Ercoftac transition test cases for CFD validation
- Di Pasquale D, Rona A & Garrett SJ. (2009). A selective review of CFD transition models
- Rona A, Di Pasquale D & Gostelow JP. (2008). Implementing and testing a natural transition model in a multi-block finite-volume time resolved RANS scheme