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

1. Tagliafico, G., Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, L.A, 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, 2013.
2. Tagliafico, L.A., Scarpa, F., Valsuani, F., Tagliafico, G, Preliminary experimental results from a linear reciprocating magnetic refrigerator prototype, Applied Thermal Engineering, 52 (2), pp. 492-497, 2013.
3. Tagliafico, L.A., Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, G., Valsuani, F, An approach to energy saving assessment of solar assisted heat pumps for swimming pool water heating, Energy and Buildings, 55, pp. 833-840, 2012.
4. Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, G., Tagliafico, L.A, 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, 2012.
5. Tagliafico, L.A., Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, G, A compact dynamic model for household vapor compression refrigerated systems, Applied Thermal Engineering, 35 (1), pp. 1-8, 2012.
6. Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, G., Tagliafico, L.A, Classification proposal for room temperature magnetic refrigerators, International Journal of Refrigeration, 35 (2), pp. 453-458, 2012.
7. Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, L.A., Tagliafico, G, 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, 2011.
8. Tagliafico, G., Scarpa, F., Canepa, F, 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, 2010.
9. Canepa, F., Cirafici, S., Napoletano, M., Cimberle, M.R., Tagliafico, L., Scarpa, F, 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, 2008.
10. Scarpa, F., Tagliafico, L.A, A new procedure to measure water adsorption isotherms of porous fibrous materials, Journal of Porous Materials, 15 (4), pp. 451-456, 2008.
11. Tagliafico, L.A., Scarpa, F., Canepa, F., Cirafici, S, Performance analysis of a room temperature rotary magnetic refrigerator for two different gadolinium compounds, International Journal of Refrigeration, 29 (8), pp. 1307-1317, 2006.
12. Scarpa, F., Milano, G, 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, 2002.
13. Milano, G., Scarpa, F., Righini, F., Bussolino, G.C, Ten years of parameter estimation applied to dynamic thermophysical property measurements, International Journal of Thermophysics, 22 (4), pp. 1227-1240, 2001.
14. Milano, G., Scarpa, F., Cartesegna, M, Adaptive correction of dynamic temperature measurements to improve estimation of thermophysical properties, High Temperatures - High Pressures, 32 (3), pp. 293-303, 2000.
15. Scarpa, F., Milano, G, Influence of sensor calibration uncertainty in the inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP), Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, 36 (4), pp. 457-474, 1999.
16. Scarpa, F, Evaluation of reliable confidence bounds for sensor calibration curves, Metrologia, 35 (1), pp. 1-5, 1998.
17. Righini, F., Spišiak, J., Bussolino, G.C., Scarpa, F, Computational methods for the determination of thermophysical properties in pulse-heating experiments, High Temperatures - High Pressures, 29 (4), pp. 473-480, 1997.
18. Scarpa, F., Milano, G, Kalman smoothing technique applied to the inverse heat conduction problem, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, 28 (1), pp. 79-96, 1995.
19. Scarpa, F., Milano, G., Pescetti, D, Thermophysical properties estimation form transient data: kalman versus gauss approach,  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, pp. 109-116, 1993.
20. Scarpa, F., Bartolini, R., Milano, G, State space (Kalman) estimator in the reconstruction of thermal diffusivity from noisy temperature measurements, High Temperatures - High Pressures, 23 (6), pp. 633-642, 1991.

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