Postdoctoral researchers
Simone Siriano
Simone Siriano is a post-doc researcher at Sapienza University of Rome, who received a BEng in Energy Engineering in 2014, a MEng in Energy and Nuclear Engineering in 2018 and a PhD in Energy and Environment in 2022 from Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on liquid metal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), MHD code development, multiphase and free surface modelling, heat transfer modelling and nuclear fusion reactor engineering of blanket and plasma-facing components. He was awarded with the EUROfusion “Bernard Bigot” Researcher Grants in 2022 and he has been enrolled in the Professional Register of Industrial Engineers of Rome section A – ID 39606 since 2021.
Cristiano Ciurluini
Cristiano Ciurluini is a post-doc researcher at Sapienza University of Rome, who received a BEng in Energy Engineering in 2015, a MEng in Energy and Nuclear Engineering in 2018 and a PhD in Energy and Environment in 2022 from Sapienza University of Rome. From 2018, his research activity focuses on the study of the thermal-hydraulic performances of nuclear fusion reactor primary cooling systems. Such analysis has been carried out within the framework of EUROfusion Consortium Work Packages Balance of Plant and Breeding Blanket. As a PhD student and post-doc belonging to the DIAEE Sapienza University of Rome, he is part of the design team of the ITER WCLL TBM ancillary systems, in particular the Water Cooling System (WCS), and the DEMO WCLL PHTS. Design activity consists in the sizing of the system main components and in the verification of their thermal-hydraulic behaviour during both operational states and accidental scenarios. Transient analyses have been performed with the best-estimate system code RELAP5/Mod3.3. A modified version of the code was developed at DIAEE by implementing new features (new fluids, new heat transfer correlations, etc.) that enhance the code modelling capability with respect to fusion reactors.