Angelantonio Tafuni
Associate Professor, School of Applied Engineering & Technology
- angelantonio.tafuni@njit.edu
- 973-596-6187
- 206 Faculty Memorial Hall (FMH)
About Me
Angelo Tafuni graduated from Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy) in 2009, and received two Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering, one from New York University in January 2012 and one from Polytechnic University of Bari in December 2014. In January 2016 he received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from New York University with a main focus on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he teaches Thermodynamics. He is the director of the Heat and Fluid Transport Engineering Research (HaFTER) Laboratory. He is a member of ASME, APS, ASEE, SPHERIC and ISSNAF. His work has been published on peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of several technical conferences.
Education
Ph.D.; NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; 2016
M.S.; Polytechnic of Bari; Mechanical Engineering; 2014
M.S.; NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; 2012
B.S.; Polytechnic of Bari; Mechanical Engineering; 2009
Office Hours
By appointment
2026 Fall Courses
ME 490 - MECH ENGR PROJECT A
ME 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
ME 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
ME 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
ME 790A - DOC DISSERTATION & RES
ME 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
MET 304 - APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS
ME 491 - MECH ENGR PROJECT B
ME 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
ME 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
MET 303 - APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS
Teaching Interests
Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Applied Math, Numerical Methods
Past Courses
MET 303: APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS
MET 304: APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS
Research Interests
My research focuses on the modeling and experimental investigation of complex fluid systems across a range of engineering applications. I work on multiphase and free-surface flows, fluid–structure interaction, and cryogenic fluid behavior in reduced-gravity environments, with relevance to spacecraft propellant management, coastal hydrodynamics, and automotive drainage systems. A core aspect of my work involves the development and use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), particularly Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), to model nonlinear, transient, and multi-scale flow phenomena. These computational efforts are complemented by experimental studies conducted in my laboratory, which features advanced infrastructure for investigating dynamic fluid motions, including a six-degree-of-freedom Stewart Platform and setups for free-surface, wave–structure, and multiphase flow experiments. Together, these approaches aim to deepen the understanding of fluid behavior around complex mechanical systems and to support the development of next-generation predictive models for applied fluid dynamics.
Journal Article
Francesco Ricci, Renato Vacondio, José M. Domínguez, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2025. "Three-dimensional variable resolution for multi-scale modeling in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics." Computer Physics Communications, vol. 313, pp. 109609.
Corrado Altomare, Yuzhu Pearl Li, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2025. "Exploring Dissipation Terms in the SPH Momentum Equation for Wave Breaking on a Vertical Pile." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1005.
Allen Prasad Varghese, Jason W Hartwig, Samuel C. Lieber, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2024. "Numerical Design of a Flow Restrictor for Tanked Liquid Nitrogen Undergoing Reduced-Gravity Flights." Aerospace Science and Technology, vol. 154, pp. 109539.
Mashy D Green, Richard Foster-Turner, Andrew Hunt, Alejandro M Ramirez-Mancebo, Samuel C. Lieber, Jason W Hartwig, David Moxey, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2024. "Flight-ready Electrical Capacitance Tomography SMARTTS tank for use with cryogenics." Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, vol. 154, pp. 111144.
Francesco Ricci, Renato Vacondio, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2024. "Multiscale Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics based on a domain-decomposition strategy." Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 418, no. A, pp. 116500.
Jason W Hartwig, Narottama Esser, Shreykumar Jain, David Souders, Allen Prasad Varghese, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2023. "CFD Modeling of Bidirectional PMDs Inside Cryogenic Propellant Tanks Onboard Parabolic Flights." Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 296-312.
Francesco Ricci, Renato Vacondio, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2023. "Direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional isotropic turbulence with smoothed particle hydrodynamics." Physics of Fluids, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 065148.
Samuel C. Lieber, Allen Prasad Varghese, Robert Tarantino, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2023. "Additive manufacturing for plastic extrusion die tooling: A numerical investigation." CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, vol. 41, pp. 401-412.
Justin Suriano, Angelantonio Tafuni, Lewis Mullen, Joseph Racanelli, Robert Tarantino, Samuel C. Lieber. 2023. "Medical Device Hybrid Manufacturing: Translating the Coordinate System From Metal Additive Manufacturing to Subtractive Post-Processing." ASME Open Journal of Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 021021.
Konstantinos Kotsarinis, Mashy D Green, Alessia Simonini, Oscar Debarre, Thierry Magin, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2023. "Modeling sloshing damping for spacecraft: A smoothed particle hydrodynamics application." Aerospace Science and Technology, vol. 133, pp. 102090.
Gorazd Novak, Polona Pengal, Ana T Silva, José M. Domínguez, Angelantonio Tafuni, Matjaž Četina, Dušan Žagar. 2023. "Interdisciplinary design of a fish ramp using migration routes analysis." Ecological Modelling, vol. 475, pp. 110189.
Angelantonio Tafuni, Maria Grazia De Giorgi, Alessandro De Rosis. 2022. "Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics vs Lattice Boltzmann for the solution of steady and unsteady fluid flows." Computational Particle Mechanics, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1049-1071.
KC Ng, W C Low, H Chen, Angelantonio Tafuni, A Nakayama. 2022. "A three-dimensional fluid-structure interaction model based on SPH and lattice-spring method for simulating complex hydroelastic problems." Ocean Engineering, vol. 260, pp. 112026.
Alessandro De Rosis, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2022. "A phase‐field lattice Boltzmann method for the solution of water‐entry and water‐exit problems." Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 832-847.
Shane Carberry Mogan, Orenthal J. Tucker, Robert E. Johnson, Audrey Vorburger, Andre Galli, Benoit Marchand, Angelantonio Tafuni, Sunil Kumar, Iskender Sahin, Katepalli Sreenivasan. 2021. "A tenuous, collisional atmosphere on Callisto." Icarus, vol. 368.
Gorazd Novak, José M. Domínguez, Angelantonio Tafuni, Ana T Silva, Polona Pengal, Matjaž Četina, Dušan Žagar. 2021. "3-D Numerical Study of a Bottom Ramp Fish Passage Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics." Water (Switzerland), vol. 13, no. 11.
Jose Dominguez, Georgios Fourtakas, Corrado Altomare, Ricardo Canelas, Angelantonio Tafuni, Orlando Garcia Feal, Ivan Martinez Estevez, Athanasios Mokos, Renato Vacondio, Alejandro Crespo, Benedict Rogers, Peter Stansby, Moncho Gomez Gesteira. 2021. "DualSPHysics: from fluid dynamics to multiphysics problems." Computational Particle Mechanics, pp. 44.
Corrado Altomare, Angelantonio Tafuni, José M. Domínguez, Alejandro J.C. Crespo, Xavi Gironella, Joaquim Sospedra. 2020. "SPH simulations of real sea waves impacting a large-scale structure." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 826.
Gorazd Novak, José M. Domínguez, Angelantonio Tafuni, Matjaž Četina, Dušan Žagar. 2019. "Evaluation of the drag coefficient of a fully submerged body using SPH." Acta Hydrotechnica, vol. 32, no. 57, pp. 107-119.
Gorazd Novak, Angelantonio Tafuni, José M. Domínguez, Matjaž Četina, Dušan Žagar. 2019. "A numerical study of fluid flow in a vertical slot fishway with the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method." Water (Switzerland), vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1928.
Tim Verbrugghe, J.M. Domínguez, Corrado Altomare, Angelantonio Tafuni, Renato Vacondio, Peter Troch, Andreas Kortenhaus. 2019. "Non-linear wave generation and absorption using open boundaries within DualSPHysics." Computer Physics Communications, vol. 240, pp. 46-59.
Tim Verbrugghe, José Manuel Dominguez, Corrado Altomare, Angelantonio Tafuni, Peter Troch, Andreas Kortenhaus. 2018. "Application Of Open Boundaries Within A Two-way Coupled Sph Model To Simulate Non-linear Wave-structure Interactions." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 36, pp. 14.
Angelantonio Tafuni, J. M. Domínguez, R. Vacondio, A. J.C. Crespo. 2018. "A versatile algorithm for the treatment of open boundary conditions in Smoothed particle hydrodynamics GPU models." Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 342, pp. 604-624.
S. R.Carberry Mogan, D. Chen, J. W. Hartwig, I. Sahin, Angelantonio Tafuni. 2018. "Hydrodynamic analysis and optimization of the Titan submarine via the SPH and Finite–Volume methods." Computers and Fluids, vol. 174, pp. 271-282.
Angelantonio Tafuni, Iskender Sahin, Mark Hyman. 2016. "Numerical investigation of wave elevation and bottom pressure generated by a planing hull in finite-depth water." Applied Ocean Research, vol. 58, pp. 281-291.
Angelantonio Tafuni, Iskender Sahin. 2015. "Non-linear hydrodynamics of thin laminae undergoing large harmonic oscillations in a viscous fluid." Journal of Fluids and Structures, vol. 52, pp. 101-117.
Conference Proceeding
"3D validation of a multi-resolution SPH scheme based on domain-decomposition"
18th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2024.
18th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2024.
"A variable resolution SPH scheme based on independent domains coupling"
17th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2023.
17th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2023.
"Characterization of free-surface damping in horizontally excited tanks"
17th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2023.
17th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2023.
"CFD Design and Analysis of a Perforated Plate for the Control of Cryogenic Flow under Reduced Gravity"
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2023.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2023.
"High-Order SPH Schemes for DNS of Turbulent Flows"
16th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2022.
16th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2022.
"Composite modelling of the Pont del Petroli pier failure due to extreme sea waves during the winter storm "Gloria""
39th IAHR World Congress, June, 2022.
39th IAHR World Congress, June, 2022.
"Restoring and rehabilitation of historical coastal asset with SPH"
16th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2022.
16th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2022.
"Numerical Model of Eco-Hydraulics Flow: Designing a Nature-Like Fish Pass"
SPHERIC, June, 2021.
SPHERIC, June, 2021.
"DNS Simulations of Three-Dimensional Isotropic Turbulence with Different SPH Schemes"
SPHERIC, June, 2021.
SPHERIC, June, 2021.
"Numerical Model of Eco-Hydraulics Flow: Towards Designing a Nature-Like Fish Pass"
SPHERIC, June, 2021.
SPHERIC, June, 2021.
"Simulation of a High Energy Finishing Process with SPH"
SPHERIC, June, 2021.
SPHERIC, June, 2021.
"Obtekanje potopljene kocke in krogle z uporabo metode SPH / Flow past a submerged cube and a sphere using SPH"
KD 2020 (Kuhljevi dnevi 2020), September, 2020.
KD 2020 (Kuhljevi dnevi 2020), September, 2020.
"Using SPH to evaluate the hydrodynamics of different bodies in free surface flow"
6th IAHR Europe Congress, June 30th – July 2nd, 2020, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2020.
6th IAHR Europe Congress, June 30th – July 2nd, 2020, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2020.
"DualSPHysics: an open-source code for engineering purposes"
Harbin Engineerng University, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2020.
Harbin Engineerng University, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2020.
"Wave generation and absorption via SPH inlet/outlet conditions"
14th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2019.
14th SPHERIC International Workshop, June, 2019.
"Application of open boundaries within a two-way coupled SPH model to simulate non-linear wave-structure interactions"
January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2018.
January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2018.
"Numerical simulations of flow past a submarine in extraterrestrial, cryogenic seas"
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, September, 2017.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, September, 2017.
"CFD study of an autonomous submarine in extraterrestrial seas"
January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2017.
January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2017.
"Unsteady Stokes Flow for a Vibrating Cantilever Under a Free-Surface"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, November, 2014.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, November, 2014.
"Seafloor pressure signatures of a high-speed boat in shallow water with SPH"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, June, 2014.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, June, 2014.
"Hydrodynamic loads on vibrating cantilevers under a free surface in viscous fluids with SPH"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, November, 2013.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, November, 2013.
Conference Abstract
"What Can the Spatial Distribution of the H Corona at Callisto Tell Us about the Nature of Its Sublimated H2O Atmosphere?"
AAS Division of Planetary Science, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2021.
AAS Division of Planetary Science, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2021.
"Atmospheres on Callisto composed of sublimated water vapor and its photochemical products"
Europlanet Science Congress, September, 2021.
Europlanet Science Congress, September, 2021.
"Thermal Evolution of Sublimated Water Vapor and Radiolytic Products in Callisto’s Atmosphere"
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2020.
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2020.
"Hydrodynamic Study of an Extraterrestrial Ship Design with SPH"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, November, 2019.
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, November, 2019.
Instructor's Manual
"DualSPHysics_v5.0_GUIDE"
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2020.
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2020.
Professional
19th SPHERIC World Conference
Session Chair, 2025
APS 2020 DFD Meeting - Keynote Lecture
Session Chair, 2020
APS 2019 DFD Meeting - SPH Focus Session
Session Chair, 2019
APS 2019 DFD Meeting - SPH Focus Session
Track Organizer, 2019
SPHERIC 2019 Workshop
Session Chair, 2019