Dr. Federico Scarpa
University of Genoa, Italy
Email: fscarpa@ditec.unige.it
Qualifications
1994 Ph.D., Applied Thermodynamics, University of Genoa, Italy
1990 M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy
Publications (Selected)
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Tagliafico, G., Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, L.A.(2013),A dimensionless
description of active magnetic regenerators to compare their performance and to
simplify their optimization, International Journal of Refrigeration, 36 (3),
pp. 941-949.
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Tagliafico, L.A., Scarpa, F., Valsuani, F., Tagliafico,
G.(2013), Preliminary experimental results from a linear reciprocating magnetic
refrigerator prototype, Applied Thermal Engineering, 52 (2), pp. 492-497.
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Tagliafico, L.A., Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, G., Valsuani, F.(2012), An approach to energy saving assessment of solar assisted heat pumps for
swimming pool water heating, Energy and Buildings, 55, pp. 833-840.
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Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, G., Tagliafico, L.A.(2012), Control
optimization in experiments for the heat transfer assessment of saturated
packed bed regenerators, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55
(23-24), pp. 6944-6950.
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Tagliafico, L.A., Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, G.(2012), A compact
dynamic model for household vapor compression refrigerated systems, Applied
Thermal Engineering, 35 (1), pp. 1-8.
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Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, G., Tagliafico, L.A.(2012), Classification
proposal for room temperature magnetic refrigerators, International Journal of
Refrigeration, 35 (2), pp. 453-458.
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Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, L.A., Tagliafico, G.(2011), Integrated
solar-assisted heat pumps for water heating coupled to gas burners; Control
criteria for dynamic operation, Applied Thermal Engineering, 31 (1), pp. 59-68.
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Tagliafico, G., Scarpa, F., Canepa, F.(2010), A dynamic 1-D model
for a reciprocating active magnetic regenerator; influence of the main working
parameters, International Journal of Refrigeration, 33 (2), pp. 286-293.
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Canepa, F., Cirafici, S., Napoletano, M., Cimberle, M.R.,
Tagliafico, L., Scarpa, F.(2008), Ageing effect on the magnetocaloric
properties of Gd, Gd5Si 1.9Ge2.1 and on the eutectic composition Gd
75Cd25, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 41 (15), art. no. 155004.
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Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, L.A.(2008), A new procedure to measure
water adsorption isotherms of porous fibrous materials, Journal of Porous
Materials, 15 (4), pp. 451-456.
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Tagliafico, L.A., Scarpa, F., Canepa, F., Cirafici, S.(2006),
Performance analysis of a room temperature rotary magnetic refrigerator for two
different gadolinium compounds, International Journal of Refrigeration, 29 (8),
pp. 1307-1317.
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Scarpa, F., Milano, G.(2002), The Role of Adsorption and Phase
Change Phenomena in the Thermophysical Characterization of Moist Porous
Materials, International Journal of Thermophysics, 23 (4), pp. 1033-1046.
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Milano, G., Scarpa, F., Righini, F., Bussolino, G.C. (2001), Ten
years of parameter estimation applied to dynamic thermophysical property
measurements, International Journal of Thermophysics, 22 (4), pp. 1227-1240.
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Milano, G., Scarpa, F., Cartesegna, M. (2000), Adaptive correction
of dynamic temperature measurements to improve estimation of thermophysical
properties, High Temperatures - High Pressures, 32 (3), pp. 293-303.
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Scarpa, F., Milano, G.(1999), Influence of sensor calibration
uncertainty in the inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP), Numerical Heat
Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, 36 (4), pp. 457-474.
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Scarpa, F.(1998), Evaluation of reliable confidence bounds for
sensor calibration curves, Metrologia, 35 (1), pp. 1-5.
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Righini, F., Spišiak, J., Bussolino, G.C., Scarpa, F.(1997),
Computational methods for the determination of thermophysical properties in
pulse-heating experiments, High Temperatures - High Pressures, 29 (4), pp.
473-480.
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Scarpa, F., Milano, G.(1995), Kalman smoothing technique applied
to the inverse heat conduction problem, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B:
Fundamentals, 28 (1), pp. 79-96.
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Scarpa, F., Milano, G., Pescetti, D.(1993), Thermophysical
properties estimation form transient data: kalman versus gauss approach,
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Inverse Problems in
Engineering, pp. 109-116.
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Scarpa, F., Bartolini, R., Milano, G. (1991), State space (Kalman)
estimator in the reconstruction of thermal diffusivity from noisy temperature
measurements, High Temperatures - High Pressures, 23 (6), pp. 633-642.
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