About

Adriano Cerminara studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza for his BEng in Aerospace Engineering and his MSc in Aeronautical Engineering, obtaining also the Pegasus Certificate for the European Network of Excellence in Aerospace Engineering.

He carried out a PhD (awarded in 2017) in Aerospace Engineering in the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics research group of the University of Southampton. From 2017 to 2019 he was Research Fellow in Computational Aerothermodynamics at the University of Southampton, working on an EPSRC-funded project on transpiration cooling in hypersonic flows. During his time at the University of Southampton, he was also Teaching Assistant in different modules in both BEng and MSc programmes. From 2019 to 2022 he was Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton, where he also obtained his PGCert Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education.

Since 2023, he is Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University. He has been working in different international projects, including combined numerical – experimental studies in high-speed flows, in collaboration with leading aerospace agencies and companies, and has been actively involved in different NATO AVT (Applied Vehicle Technology) Task Forces focused on the study of hypersonic boundary layers. He is a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (MRAeS), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (MAIAA), and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He is also member of the UK Turbulence Consortium (UKTC), reviewer of leading journals in the field of fluid dynamics and aerospace technology, and author of over 20 scientific publications in the field of boundary-layer receptivity, stability, transition to turbulence, and hypersonic aerothermodynamics.

Teaching

Department of Engineering and Mathematics

College of Business, Technology and Engineering

Subject area 

Future Transportation

Courses taught 

Aerospace Engineering

Modules taught 

I teach in a range of modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in the Aerospace Engineering course, including "Aerospace Numerical Methods and Applications", "Aerospace Structures and Dynamics", "Astronautics and Space Propulsion".

Research

• Materials and Engineering Research Institute
• Industry and Innovation Research Institute

Current research 

Cerminara, A., 2023. Turbulence Effect on Transpiration Cooling Effectiveness Over a Flat Plate in Hypersonic Flow and Sensitivity to Injection Parameters. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 110(4), pp.945-968.

Cerminara, A., Levin, D., Theofilis, V., 2023. Shock receptivity: characteristics of shock oscillation modes and induced boundary-layer disturbances. Abstract submitted to the AIAA SciTech 2023 conference.

Featured research 

I have been actively contributing as member to the following groups:

- NATO STO AVT-240 Group on "Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition Prediction" (NATO STO AVT Panel Excellence Award for AVT-240)

- NATO STO AVT-346 Group on "Predicting Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition on Complex Geometries "

- NATO STO AVT-352 Group on "Measurement, Modelling and Prediction of Hypersonic Turbulence"

Collaborators and sponsors 

I have been collaborating with several international leading academic institutions, research centres and companies in the Aerospace Engineering field.

Publications