CURRICULUM 2 - Fluid Machinery, Energy Systems, Mechanics of Machines and Industrial Mechanical Plants

 The curriculum encompasses various cultural areas, ranging from Fluid Machinery and Energy Systems to Mechanics of Machine, and Mechanical Industrial Plants. 

For the cultural area of Fluid Machinery and Energy Systems, the curriculum studies machines and systems for energy conversion, addressing thermodynamic, fluid dynamics, energy, ecological, and technological issues through modeling, control, and experimentation. The main research topics are:

• Numerical and experimental analysis of advanced stationary energy machines and systems, including gas turbines, combined cycles, steam plants, heat recovery cycles, and integrated systems for energy conversion and storage from renewable sources, also based on the use of hydrogen as a vector;
• Thermo-fluid dynamics modeling of fluid machinery, control, and experimentation of combustion engines, and applications to hybrid vehicles and fluid power transmissions.

For the cultural areas of Mechanics of Machine and Mechanical Industrial Plants, the curriculum includes scientific and professional aspects related to the analysis, design, and management of machines and their components, processes, industrial plants, and mechanical plants, using a systemic approach and methodologies of theoretical, applied, and experimental mechanics, plant engineering, and production. The main research topics are:

• Automation, robotics, mechatronics;
• Biomechanics;
• Vehicles and transport and lifting systems;
• Dynamics and vibrations of machines;
• Monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics of mechanical systems;
• Mechanical plants and production systems;
• Maintenance and industrial safety;
• Instrumentation;
• Logistics and production management.