Annafederica Urbano

Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE) • Full Professor

Annafederica Urbano (ORCID: 0000-0002-7576-8685) is a professor in Launchers and Space Systems at ISAE-Supaero. She carries out her research activities in the Advanced Space Concepts team at the Department of Design and Control of Aerospace Vehicles (DCAS). A. Urbano is an expert in space propulsion and space transportation systems. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2012 from La Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on the regenerative cooling system of methane liquid rocket engines. Her research areas of expertise are related with the numerical simulation of reactive and two-phase flows in liquid rocket engines: supercritical combustion, thermoacoustic instabilities, nucleate boiling in micro-gravity, two phase compressible flows, transcritical fluids and heat transfer deterioration. Part of her activity is also devoted to space system analysis (rocket engines and launchers): multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization, surrogate models from CFD and artificial intelligence. She is the coordinator of the ESA Topical team “Propellant management physics”. She has been member of the Space Propulsion Committee of the International Astronautical Federation since 2022. She is a reviewer for several scientific journals, including International Journal of Heat and mass Transfer, Journal of Multi-phase flows and Combustion and Flame. In the Advanced Space Concepts team, A. Urbano is responsible for the SaCLaB2 chair funded by Ariane Group and Airbus Defense and Space and she leads the research activities devoted to liquid propulsion and launchers.

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