Theory and methods of hydrodynamic stability

• Interfacial instability of two rotating viscous immiscible fluids in a cylinder, G. Coppola and O. Semeraro, 2011, Physics of Fluids, Vol 23, 064105
• Non-modal instability of core-annular flow, Coppola, G., Orazzo, A., de Luca, L., 2012, Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, 13 (6), pp. 405-415
• Surface tension effects on the motion of a free-falling liquid sheet, Coppola, G., De Rosa, F., de Luca, L.,  2013, Physics of Fluids, 25 (6), 062103
• Disturbance energy growth in core-annular flow, Orazzo, A., Coppola, G., de Luca, L., 2014, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 747, pp. 44-72
• Global dynamics analysis of nappe oscillation, De Rosa, F., Girfoglio, M., de Luca, L.,  2014,  Physics of Fluids, 26 (12), 1.4904752

Synthetic jets and plasma actuators

• Modeling and experimental validation of the frequency response of synthetic jet actuators, de Luca, L., Girfoglio, M., Coppola, G.,  2014,  AIAA Journal, 52 (8), pp. 1733-1748
• Characterization of Synthetic Jet Resonant Cavities. L. de Luca, M. Girfoglio, M. Chiatto, G. Coppola, 2015, Flinovia - Flow Induced Noise and Vibration Issues and Aspects, E. Ciappi et al. eds., 101-118, Springer International Publishing Switzerland 

Numerical simulation: Volume of Fluid (VOF); High order numerical schemes for turbulent simulations

• Insights on the impact of a plane drop on a thin liquid film,  Coppola, G., Rocco, G., de Luca, L., 2011, Physics of Fluids, 23 (2), 022105
• Single-wave Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in nonparallel channel flow. Orazzo, A., Coppola, G., de Luca, L., 2011, Atomization and Sprays, 21 (9), pp. 775-785
• The evolution of a localized nonlinear wave of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability with gravity. A. Orazzo and J. Hoepffner. Physics of Fluids, Vol 24, issue 11, 112106 (2012).
• An efficient time advancing strategy for energy-preserving simulations, F. Capuano, G. Coppola, L. de Luca. Journal of Computational Physics, to appear.
• Energy preserving turbulent simulations at a reduced computational cost, F. Capuano, G. Coppola, G. Balarac, L. de Luca. Journal of Computational Physics, under review.
• A low-cost time-advancing strategy for energy-preserving turbulent simulations, F. Capuano, G. Coppola, G. Balarac, H. J. Bae and L. de Luca. Center for Turbulence Research (CTR), Stanford University. Proceedings of the Summer Program 2014.