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  1. A Strategy to Account for the Hub Blockage Effect in the Blade-Element/Momentum Theory

    Article • International Journal of Turbomachinery Propulsion and Power, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  2. Performance analysis of diffuser-augmented wind turbines through a CFD-based actuator disk method coupled with a Blade-Element approach

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  3. A hub blockage model for small and micro horizontal axis wind turbines

    Article • Energy, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  4. A numerical proof of the Betz–Joukowsky limit

    Article • Renewable Energy, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  5. Coupled and uncoupled CFD-based design strategies for diffuser-augmented wind turbines: A comparative study

    Article • Energy, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  6. Optimum design of contra-rotating wind turbines with adjacent rotors

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  7. Diffuser augmented wind turbines: A critical analysis of the design practice based on the ducting of an existing open rotor

    Article • Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  8. Three dimensional unsteady analysis of a miniaturized pressure probe for turbocharger applications

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, December 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  9. Optimal Distribution of the Disk Load: Validity of the Betz–Joukowsky Limit

    Article • AIAA Journal, April 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  10. The Joukowsky rotor for diffuser augmented wind turbines: design and analysis

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  11. A design of experiment approach as applied to the analysis of diffuser-augmented wind turbines

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  12. 3-D blade resolved CFD performance analysis of a Ducted Wind Turbine

    Article • January 2021, European Turbomachinery Society

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  13. Diffuser augmented wind turbines: Review and assessment of theoretical models

    Article • Applied Energy, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  14. On the potential of the ideal diffuser augmented wind turbine: an investigation by means of a momentum theory approach and of a free-wake ring-vortex actuator disk model

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  15. Ring-Vortex Panel Method for the Uniformly Loaded Propeller with Axisymmetric Hub

    Article • AIAA Journal, January 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  16. Efficiency optimisation of advanced gas turbine recuperative-cycles

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and Energy, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  17. A ring-vortex actuator disk method for wind turbines including hub effects

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  18. Work and efficiency optimization of advanced gas turbine cycles

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  19. Verification of the Axial Momentum Theory for Propellers with a Uniform Load Distribution

    Article • International Journal of Turbomachinery Propulsion and Power, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  20. Three-Dimensional/One-Dimensional Combined Simulation of Deep Surge Loop in a Turbocharger Compressor With Vaned Diffuser

    Article • Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, March 2019, ASME International

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  21. A ring-vortex free-wake model for uniformly loaded propellers. Part I-Model description.

    Article • Energy Procedia, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  22. A ring-vortex free-wake model for uniformly loaded propellers. Part II - Solution procedure and analysis of the results

    Article • Energy Procedia, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  23. Performance analysis of ducted marine propellers. Part II – Accelerating duct

    Article • Applied Ocean Research, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  24. Experimental investigation on the effect of the duct geometrical parameters on the performance of a ducted wind turbine

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, June 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  25. Development and validation of a 1D model for turbocharger compressors under deep-surge operation

    Article • Energy, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  26. The axial momentum theory as applied to wind turbines: some exact solutions of the flow through a rotor with radially variable load

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  27. Effects of the Approximations Embodied in the Momentum Theory as Applied to the NREL PHASE VI Wind Turbine

    Article • International Journal of Turbomachinery Propulsion and Power, June 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  28. A statistical approach to the analysis of the surge phenomenon

    Article • Energy, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  29. Highly accurate error estimate of the momentum theory as applied to wind turbines

    Article • Wind Energy, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  30. Analysis and Evaluation of the Momentum Theory Errors as Applied to Propellers

    Article • AIAA Journal, December 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  31. Actuator disc methods for open propellers: assessments of numerical methods

    Article • Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  32. Performance analysis of ducted marine propellers. Part I – Decelerating duct

    Article • Applied Ocean Research, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  33. A nonlinear and semi-analytical actuator disk method accounting for general hub shapes. Part 1. Open rotor

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  34. Effects of the duct thrust on the performance of ducted wind turbines

    Article • Energy, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  35. Effects of Duct Cross Section Camber and Thickness on the Performance of Ducted Propulsion Systems for Aeronautical Applications

    Article • International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, January 2016, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  36. Steady and unsteady experimental analysis of a turbocharger for automotive applications

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  37. A comparison of nonlinear actuator disk methods for the performance analysis of ducted marine propellers

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and Energy, June 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  38. Performance analysis of open and ducted wind turbines

    Article • Applied Energy, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  39. Ducted Propeller Flow Analysis by Means of a Generalized Actuator Disk Model

    Article • Energy Procedia, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  40. Highly Flexible Hot Gas Generation System for Turbocharger Testing

    Article • Energy Procedia, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo

  41. Solution of the flow over a non-uniform heavily loaded ducted actuator disk

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rodolfo Bontempo