Annafederica Urbano

Annafederica Urbano serves as a professor in the Space Advanced Concept Laboratory at ISAE SUPAERO's Department of Control and Design of Aerospace Vehicles (DCAS) since 2019. Her expertise spans space propulsion and transportation systems, with a Ph.D. from La Sapienza University of Rome focused on methane liquid rocket engines' regenerative cooling systems. Her research specializes in numerical simulation of reactive and two-phase flows in liquid rocket engines, encompassing supercritical combustion, thermoacoustic instabilities, nucleate boiling in micro-gravity, two-phase compressible flows, transcritical fluids, and heat transfer deterioration. Her significant contributions to the field are evidenced by her authorship of over 40 journal and conference papers, including 16 ranked-A publications, establishing her as a leading authority in aerospace engineering and rocket propulsion systems.