Davide Picchi

Background

About Davide Picchi

My background is in theoretical thermal-fluid sciences and my research integrates theory development and experiments to investigate transport phenomena in multiphase flow and complex fluids in confined environments. One of my priorities is to delineate the fundamental multi-scale and multi-phase dynamics of flow in porous materials and to deploy such knowledge for obtaining guiding principles for the design of relevant problems. For achieving this goal, I focus the most on the understanding of the small-scale physics (i.e, the pore-scale) and in the development of upscaling approaches that I apply to different scenarios, such as geothermal, carbon sequestration, and the recovery of natural resources. I am also interested in fluid mechanics problems to support the energy transition. I have experience with (i) modeling techniques including discrete- and continuum-scale models of flow and transport processes in confined environments, upscaling, uncertainty quantification, and (ii) experimental techniques for investigating multiphase flow and non-Newtonian fluids in complex geometries.