Curriculum vitae of Roberto Paoli - cerfacs

Curriculum vitae of
Roberto Paoli
Nationality: Italian
Position: Research Scientist
European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation
Address: CERFACS
42 Avenue Gaspard Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse Cedex 1, France
US Address: c/o Marta García, 211 East Ohio St., Apt. 725, Chicago, IL 60611
Phone/Fax: +33 (0)5 61193133 / +33 (0)5 61193000
E-mail: paoli@cerfacs.fr
URL:
http://www.cerfacs.fr/~paoli
Professional background
2004–present:
Research Scientist, CERFACS
Deputy scientific director of the Aviation and Environment Team.
- Supervising the development of new modules and validation of a reactive
two-phase flow solver for turbulent and atmospheric flow simulations.
- Managing, reporting and supervising of European and National research
projects and bilateral projects with industrial partners.
- Advisor of several Master, Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows.
- Taught classes in engineering schools: applied mathematics and fluid
mechanics.
- Published papers in peer-reviewed journals in the area of theoretical and
computational fluid mechanics and atmospheric/environmental science.
2010–2013 Part-time Associate Professor, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
École de Sciences industrielles et technologies de l'information.
- teaching advanced fluid mechanics (turbulence, reactive flows) and CFD
2003–2004: Post-doctoral fellow, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford
University and NASA Ames Research Center.Supervisor: KarimShariff.
Project: Modeling and simulation of turbulence/cloud physics interaction.
- Direct numerical simulation and development of a stochastic model.
- Published in refereed journals and presented in international conferences.
2001–2003: Post-doctoral fellow, CERFACS. Supervisor: Thierry Poinsot.
Project: Modeling and simulation of the dispersion of aircraft emissions.
- Implementation of a microphysics module into a Navier-Stokes solver.
- Large-eddy simulation of aircraft trailing vortices and contrail formation.
- Published in refereed journals and presented in international conferences.
1998–2001: Ph.D. student, University of Rome La Sapienza, School of Aerospace
Engineering. Advisor: Francesco Grasso
Thesis title: Shock wave reflections in nonequilibrium steady flows:
theoretical and numerical analysis.
- Development and validation of a thermochemical nonequilibrim module for
hypersonic flows.
- Application to shock-wake reflections and shock-shock interactions.
- Published in refereed journals and presented in international conferences.

Education
2010: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) 1
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse.
2001: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
University of Rome La Sapienza.
1998: Laurea in Aerospace Engineering (cum Laude), Master Degree equivalent
University of Rome La Sapienza.
1996: Laurea in Aeronautical Engineering, Master Degree equivalent
University of Rome La Sapienza.
Awards and fellowships
November 2012: 2013 Innovative & Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment
(INCITE)computational award.Principal Investigator of the project:
“Evaluation of Mesoscale Atmospheric Model for Contrail Cirrus Simulations”
(http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/)
November 2011: 2012 Innovative & Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment
(INCITE)computational award.Principal Investigator of the project:
“Large-eddy simulations of contrail-to-cirrus transition”
(http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/)
October 2011: 2012 Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe(PRACE)computational
award.Principal Investigatorof the project:
“Large-eddy simulations of stratified atmospheric turbulent flows: application to
meteorological hazard and environmental impact”
(http://www.prace-project.eu/PRACE-3rd-Regular-Call?lang=en)
2003-2004: Post-doctoral fellowship, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University.
Summer 2006: Visiting Fellowship, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University.
Summer 2002: Visiting Fellowship, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University.
Invited presentations
November 2013: ECATS workshop: Technical challenges for aviation in a changing environment,
Berlin, Germany.
November 2012: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Virginia Beach, VA, USA.
June 2012:
École Normale Supérieure, LMD, Paris, France.
March 2012: Chinese Aeronautical Establishment, Beijing, China.
February 2011: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Atlanta, GA, USA.
October 2010: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA.
June 2010:
Airbus S.A.S., Toulouse, France.
July 2009:
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
April 2009:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
September 2007: Quantify Summer School, Athens, Greece.
February 2006: Dassault Aviation, Paris, France.
Research interests and expertise
• Modeling and simulation of the environmental impact of aircraft and rocket emissions.
• Modeling and simulation of atmospheric and environmental flows.
• Direct and large-eddy simulations of turbulent reactive two-phase flows.
• Computational fluid dynamics: numerical methods, unsteady solvers.
• High-performance computing for CFD and multiphysics, massively parallel computing.
• Modeling and simulation of high-speed nonequilibrium flows, high-temperature gas dynamics.
1 The HDR is the title requested in France to pursue an academic career and to officially advise Ph.D. students.

Research projects
• Projects with R. Paoli as Principal Investigator
- ITAAC (Impact du Trafic Aérien sur l’Atmosphère et le Climat), 1 M€, funded by National
Foundation STAE (Sciences et Technologies pour l’Aéronautique et l’Espace), 2009-2013.
- MOSEAW (Modeling and Simulation of Emissions in Aircraft Wakes), 150 K€, funded by
Airbus France 2006-2008.
• European, National and Industrial projects (contribution, managing and reporting)
- TC2 (Traînées des Condensation et Climat), National Project, funded by National Network
CORAC (COnseil pour la Recherche Aéronautique Civile), 2011-2015.
- GRAIN (Greener Aeronautics International Networking), EU FP7, 2010-2012.
- SWAFEA (Sustainable Way for Alternative Fuels and Energy for Aviation), EU FP7 2009-
2011.
- QUANTIFY (Quantifying the Climate Impact of Global and European Transport System),
EU FP6, 2005-2009.
- FAR-Wake (Fundamental Research on Aircraft Wake Phenomena), EU FP6, 2005-2007.
- FLOWnet (Flow Library on the Net), EU FP5, 1999-2001.
• US Projects (contribution and reporting)
- ACCRI (Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative), Federal Aviation Administration,
2011-2013, invited as external member.
Teaching experience in Engineering Schools
• 2010-2013: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, graduate courses: Applied fluid
mechanics; Turbulence theory and simulation, 96 hours, 20 students each.
• 2007, 2008: Institut Supérieur de Aéronautique et Espace (ISAE), Toulouse, undergraduate course:
Numerical methods for partial differential equations, 40 hours, 25 students.
Student advising
• Ph.D students
- Advisor: Adèle Poubeau, University of Toulouse, 2011-2014.
- Co-advisor: Joris Picot, University of Toulouse, 2009-2012; Ronan Paugam, Ecole Centrale
Paris, 2005–2008; Laurent Nybelen, University of Toulouse, 2005-2008.
• Post-doctoral fellows:
- D. Kolomenskiy, 2011-2012; Odile Thouron, 2010-2012; Simon Unterstrasser, 2010-2011;
Laurent Nybelen, 2008-2010; Fréderic Chosson, 2006-2008.
• Several master students from University of Toulouse, Ecole Centrale Lyon.
Computer skills
• Scientific programming: Fortran 90, C++ (basic); parallel programming tools (MPI, OpenMP)
• Development, implementation and porting of scientific codes on high-performance computing
architectures based on massively parallel platforms (IBM BlueGene)
• Systems: UNIX, Linux, Mac OSX, Windows.
• Software: Latex, Office package, visualization tools (Tecplot, Ensight, Paraview).
Languages
• Italian: mother tongue.
• English, French and Spanish: fluent speaking, reading and writing.
Affiliations
• Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
• Member o the American Physical Society (APS).
• Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

Service
• Referee for Journal of Fluid Mechanics, AIAA Journal, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
Atmospheric Environment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Session conference chairman: “Fluid Mechanics of aircraft and rocket emissions and their
environmental impact”, 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Meeting, Chicago, August 2014.
List of publications
Peer-reviewed publications
Journals
1. R. Paoli, O. Thouron, J. Escobar, J. Picot and D. Cariolle, 2013: High-resolution large-eddy
simulations of sub-kilometer-scale turbulence in the upper troposphere lower stratosphere,
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, Vol.13, pp. 31891-31932.
2. S. Unterstrasser, R. Paoli, I. Sölch, C. Kühnlein, and T. Gerz, 2013: Dimension of aircraft
exhaust plumes at cruise conditions: effect of wake vortices, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Discussions, Vol.13, pp. 30039-30096, 2013
3. R. Paoli, L. Nybelen, J. Picot and D. Cariolle, 2013: Effects of jet/vortex interaction on contrail
formation in supersaturated conditions, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 25, 053305.
4. Rochoux, M., B. Cuenot, S. Ricci, A. Trouvé, B. Delmotte, S. Massart, R. Paoli, and R. Paugam,
2013: Data assimilation applied to combustion, Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Vol. 34, pp. 266-
276.
5. R. Paoli, D. Cariolle, and R. Sausen, 2011: Review of Effective Emissions modeling and
computation, Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 4, 643-667.
6. R. Paugam, R. Paoli, and D. Cariolle, 2010: Influence of vortex dynamics and atmospheric
turbulence on the early evolution of a contrail, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 9, pp
3933- 3952.
7. P. Huszar, D. Cariolle, R. Paoli, T. Halenka, M. Belda, H. Schlager, J. Miksovsky, and P. Pisoft,
2010: Modeling the regional impact of ship emissions on NOx and ozone levels over the Eastern
Atlantic and Western Europe using ship plume parameterization, Atmospheric Chemistry and
Physics, Vol. 10, pp. 6645-6660.
8. D. Cariolle, D. Caro, R. Paoli, D. Hauglustaine, B. Cuenot, A. Cozic, and R. Paugam, 2009:
Introduction of non-linear plume chemistry into large scale atmospheric models: application to
aircraft emissions, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 118, D19302.
9. R. Paoli and K. Shariff, 2009: Turbulent condensation of droplets: direct simulation and a
stochastic model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 66, pp. 723-740.
10. L. Nybelen and R. Paoli, 2009: Direct and large-eddy simulations of merging in co-rotating
vortex system, AIAA Journal, Vol. 47, pp. 157-167.
11. F. Chosson, R. Paoli, and B. Cuenot, 2008: Ship plume dispersion rates in convective boundary
layers for chemistry models, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 8, pp. 4841-4853.
12. R. Paoli, X. Vancassel, F. Garnier, and P. Mirabel, 2008: Large-eddy simulation of a turbulent jet
and a vortex sheet interaction: particle formation and evolution in the near-field of an aircraft
wake, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 17, pp. 131-144.
13. R. Paoli and F. Garnier, 2005: Interaction of exhaust jets and aircraft wake vortices: small-scale
dynamics and potential microphysical-chemical transformations, Comptes Rendus Physique, Vol.
6, pp. 525-547.
14. R. Paoli, J. Hélie, and T. Poinsot, 2004: Contrail formation in aircraft wakes, Journal of Fluid
Mechanics, Vol. 502, pp. 361-373.
15. R. Paoli, F. Laporte, B. Cuenot, and T. Poinsot, 2003: Dynamics and mixing in jet-vortex
interactions, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 15, pp. 1843-1860.
16. M. Marini, R. Paoli, F. Grasso, J. Periaux, and J.-A. Desideri, 2002: Verification and validation
in computational fluid dynamics: the FLOWnet database experience, JSME International Journal
Series B, Vol. 45, pp. 15-22.
17. F. Grasso and R. Paoli, 2000: Stability of shock wave reflections in nonequilibrium steady flows

and hysteresis, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 12, pp. 3265-3279.
18. F. Grasso and R. Paoli, 2000: Simulations of shock wave reflections in nonequilibrium steady
flows, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 37, pp. 224-234.
19. F. Grasso and R. Paoli, 1999: An analytical study of Mach reflection in nonequilibrium steady
flows, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 11, pp. 3150-3167.
20. R. Paoli: Modeling and simulation of contrails. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, invited
author, [in prep]
21. A. Poubeau, R. Paoli, A. Dauptain, F. Duchaine, and G. Wang: Large Eddy Simulation of a solid
rocket booster jet: towards a better prediction of the impact of solid-fuel launchers on the
atmosphere, [submitted to AIAA Journal]
22. J. Picot, R. Paoli, O. Thouron, and D. Cariolle: Large-eddy simulations of contrails during the
vortex phase in atmospheric turbulence [in prep].
23. R. Paoli, O. Thouron, and D. Cariolle: Large-eddy simulations of contrail-to-cirrus transition [in
prep].
24. D. Kolomenskiy, R. Paoli, and J.-F. Boussuge: Hybrid RANS-LES Simulation of Wingtip
Vortex Dynamics [in prep].
25. D. Kolomenskiy and R. Paoli, 2013: Large-eddy simulations of the near-field wake of an airliner.
[in prep].
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
26. R. Paoli, O. Thouron, and D. Cariolle, 2013: Study of microphysical and radiative properties of
contrail cirrus using large-eddy simulations, 66th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid
Dynamics, The American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2013.
27. Poubeau, A., R. Paoli, A. Dauptain, G. Wang, D. Cariolle, and E. Champesting, 2013: Largeeddy
simulation of a rocket booster jet: towards a better prediction of the impact of solid-fuel
launchers on the atmosphere. 6th IAASS International Space Safety Conference, Montreal,
Canda, 2013.
28. R. Paoli, O. Thouron, J. Picot, and D. Cariolle, 2012: Large-eddy simulations of contrail-tocirrus
transition in atmospheric turbulence, 65th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid
Dynamics, The American Physical Society, San Diego, CA, November 2012.
29. J. Picot, R. Paoli, O. Thouron, D. Cariolle, 2012: Effects of atmospheric turbulence on the
structure of a contrail in the vortex phase, 3rd Conference on Transport, Atmosphere and
Climate, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany, June 2012.
30. Rochoux, M., A. Trouvé, S. Ricci, S. Massart, R. Paoli, and B. Cuenot, 2011: Wildfire
Propagation using Data Assimilation, 10th International Symposium of the International
Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), University of Maryland, June 2011.
31. R. Paoli, R. Paugam, L. Nybelen, C. Sarrat, and D. Cariolle: High-resolution numerical
simulations of physicochemical processes in aircraft wakes, 2nd on Conference Transport,
Atmosphere and Climate, Aachen, Germany, June 2009.
32. R. Paoli, F. Garnier, P. Mirabel and B. Cuenot: Large-eddy simulation of a turbulent jet and
wake vortex interaction: particle formation and evolution in the near field of an aircraft, 2nd
Conference on Transport, Atmosphere and Climate, Oxford, UK, June 2006.
33. R. Paugam, R. Paoli, D. Cariolle and B. Cuenot: Numerical simulation of aircraft plume
evolution using a mesoscale code, 2nd Conference on Transport, Atmosphere and Climate,
Oxford, UK, June 2006.
34. L. Nybelen, H. Moet, and R. Paoli: Simulations of merging in a two co-rotating vortex system,
European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering ECCOMAS
- CFD, Egmondaan Zee, The Netherlands, September 2006.
35. R. Paoli, K. Shariff, and N. Mansour: Contrail evolution in the atmosphere, 56th Annual Meeting
of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, The American Physical Society, East Rutherford, NJ,
November 2003.
36. F. Garnier, C. Ferreira Gago, A. Brasseur, R. Paoli, and B. Cuenot: Dispersion and growing of
ice particles in a turbulent exhaust plume, European Conference on Aviation Atmosphere and
Climate, Friedrichshafen, Germany, June 2003.
37. F. Grasso and R. Paoli: Shock reflections in nonequilibrium flows: theoretical and numerical

considerations, European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and
Engineering, ECCOMAS, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000.
38. F. Grasso and R. Paoli: Steady shock wave reflection in nonequilibrium flows: thermodynamic
stability and regular-to-Mach reflection transition, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid
Dynamics, The American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, November 1999.
39. F. Grasso and R. Paoli: Nonequilibrium Effects on Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena, 3rd
European Symposium on Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijkaan
Zee, The Netherlands, November 1998.
Chapters in books
40. R. Paoli, T. Poinsot, and K. Shariff: Testing Semi-Lagrangian schemes for two-phase flow
applications, Proceedings of the 2006 Summer Program, Center for Turbulence Research, NASA
Ames/Stanford Univ.
41. R. Paoli, K. Shariff, and A. Shirgaonkar: Analysis of a subgrid-scale model for turbulent
condensation Proceedings of the 2006 Summer Program, Center for Turbulence Research, NASA
Ames/Stanford Univ.
42. R. Paoli and K. Shariff: Direct Numerical Simulation of turbulent condensation in clouds,
Annual Research Briefs 2004, pp. 305–316, Center for Turbulence Research, NASA
Ames/Stanford Univ.
43. R. Paoli and K. Shariff: Particle size distributions in atmospheric clouds, Annual Research Briefs
2003, pp. 39–47, Center for Turbulence Research, NASA Ames/Stanford Univ.
44. R. Paoli, J. Hélie, T. Poinsot, and S. Ghosal: Contrails formation in aircraft wakes using largeeddy
simulations, Proceedings of the 2002 Summer Program, pp. 229–241, Center for Turbulence
Research, NASA Ames/Stanford Univ.
Dissertations
45. R. Paoli: Modeling and simulation of the environmental impact of aircraft emissions, HDR
dissertation, Institut National Politechnique de Toulouse, 2010.
46. R. Paoli: Shock wave reflections in nonequilibrium steady flows: theoretical and numerical
analysis, Ph.D. thesis in Aerospace Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza, 1998.
47. R. Paoli: Thermochemical nonequilibrium effects in high Mach number flows, Thesis
dissertation in Aerospace Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza, 1998 (in Italian).
48. R. Paoli: Dynamics and control of a thermally forced tethered satellite system, Thesis
dissertation in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza, 1996 (in Italian).