My main interest is the computational modeling of the cardiovascular system. Several challenges have to be faced in this research activity:
- devise mathematical models effectively describing specific biomechanics features;
- find strategies to reduce the computational cost of large-scale computations;
- collaborate with scholars in other fields (medicine, engineering) to gather pieces of knowledge in a single pipeline.
Specific research project in which I have been involved include:
- the study of cerebral circulation and cerebral aneurysms;
- multiscale modeling of blood flow problems;
- reduced modeling of the pressure pulse wave propagation in the cardiovascular system;
- computational modeling of the bicuspid aortic valve disease;
- study of the role of hemodynamic forces in the onset of atherosclerosis and aneurysms;
- development of LifeV, a software library for the numerical solution of partial differential equations.