Alberto Padovan

Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Education
Ph.D.; Princeton University; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; 2022
M.A.; Princeton University; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; 2019
B.S.; University at Buffalo; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; 2017
Website
https://albertopadovan.github.io/apgroup/
2026 Fall Courses
ME 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
ME 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
ME 790A - DOC DISSERTATION & RES
ME 490 - MECH ENGR PROJECT A
ME 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
ME 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
ME 311 - THERMODYNAMICS I
ME 491 - MECH ENGR PROJECT B
ME 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
ME 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
Past Courses
IE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
ME 311: THERMODYNAMICS I
ME 791: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
Research Interests
Alberto’s research focuses on developing efficient algorithms and reduced-order models to enable the computer-assisted analysis, design, and control of large-scale physical systems. His work spans several fields, including high- and low-speed fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, applied dynamical systems theory, optimal control, and machine learning/data science for dynamical systems.
Journal Article
Alberto Padovan, Blaine Vollmer, Daniel J. Bodony. 2024. "Data-Driven Model Reduction via Non-intrusive Optimization of Projection Operators and Reduced-Order Dynamics." SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 3052-3076.
Alberto Padovan, Clarence W. Rowley. 2024. "Continuous-time balanced truncation for time-periodic fluid flows using frequential Gramians." Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 496, pp. 112597.
Wen Wu, Charles Meneveau, Rajat Mittal, Alberto Padovan, Clarence W. Rowley, Louis Cattafesta. 2022. "Response of a turbulent separation bubble to zero-net-mass-flux jet perturbations." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 7, no. 8.
Alberto Padovan, Clarence W. Rowley. 2022. "Analysis of the dynamics of subharmonic flow structures via the harmonic resolvent: Application to vortex pairing in an axisymmetric jet." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 7, no. 7.
Samuel E. Otto, Alberto Padovan, Clarence W. Rowley. 2022. "Optimizing Oblique Projections for Nonlinear Systems using Trajectories." SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. A1681-A1702.
Alberto Padovan, Samuel E. Otto, Clarence W. Rowley. 2020. "Analysis of amplification mechanisms and cross-frequency interactions in nonlinear flows via the harmonic resolvent." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 900.