Massimo Conti

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Email: massimo.conti@unicam.it

Phone: +39 +0737 +632525

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Dipartimento di Fisica - Universita' degli Studi di Camerino , 62032 CAMERNO (ITALY)

Recent Papers (since 1993):

C. Bellecci, M. Conti
Phase change thermal storage: transient behaviour analysis of a solar receiver/storage module using the enthalpy method
Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 36, 2157 (1993)

C. Bellecci, M. Conti
Latent heat thermal storage for solar dynamic power generation
Solar Energy 51, 169 (1993)

Bellecci, M. Conti
Transient behaviour analysis of a latent heat thermal storage module
Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 36, 3851 (1993)

C. Bellecci, M. Conti
Phase change energy storage: entropy production, irreversibility and second law efficiency
Solar Energy 53, 163 (1994)

C. Bellecci, M. Conti
Performances of a thermal storage module in a solar energy power production perspective: a numerical assessment
Il Nuovo Cimento C 17, 323 (1994).

C. Bellecci, M. Conti
Thermal storage for solar dynamic power generation: performance indicators in a second law perspective
Proceedings of the SOLCOM, Int. Conference on Comparative assessment of Solar Power Technologies, Jerusalem, (1994)

C. Bellecci, M. Conti
Phase-Change Thermal Storage: Heat Transfer Analysis for a Thermodynamic Systematization
Proceedings of the 10th Heat Transfer Conference, Brighton, (1994)

M. Conti
Planar solidification of a finite slab: effects of the pressure dependence of the freezing point
Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 38, 65 (1995)

Ch. Charach, M. Conti, C. Bellecci
Thermodynamics of phase-change storage in series with a heat engine
ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 117, 336 (1995).

Ch. Charach, M. Conti
Thermodynamics of latent heat storage in parallel or in series wi th a heat engine
J. Appl. Phys. 78, 1430 (1995).

Ch. Charach, M. Conti
Analytic and numerical solutions for a PCM shell-and-tube heat exchanger executing heat storage and removal cycles
in Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems III, edited by L. C. Wrobel et al.. Computational mechanics publications, Southampton (1995).

M. Conti, F. Marinozzi
One dimensional solidification: effects of the pressure dependence of the freezing point
in Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems III, edited by L. C. Wrobel et al.. Computational mechanics publications, Southampton (1995).

M. Conti, L. Papagno, F. Marinozzi
Pressure-temperature effects in the planar solidification of a finite slab: convective cooling and prescribed heat flux boundary conditions
Il Nuovo Cimento C 19, 257 (1996).

M. Conti, Ch. Charach, C. Bellecci
Thermodynamic design of a Phase-Change Thermal Storage Module
ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 118, 124 (1996).

M. Conti, Ch. Charach
Thermodynamics of heat storage in a PCM shell-and-tube heat exchanger in parallel or in series with a heat engine
Solar Energy 57, 59 (1996).

F. Marinozzi, M. Conti, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi
Phase-Field model for dendritic growth in a channel
Phys. Rev. E 53, 5039 (1996).

M. Conti, F. Marinozzi, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi
Domain coarsening via heat diffusion: a numerical study with the phase-field model
Europhys. Lett 36, 431 (1996).

M. Conti, F. Marinozzi, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi
Diffusion controlled growth of a solid cylinder into its undercooled melt: instabilities and pattern formation studied with the phase-field model
Phys. Rev. E 55, 3087 (1997).

M. Conti
Planar isothermal solidification from an undercooled melt: unsteady solute segregation studied with the phase-field model
Phys. Rev. E 55, 701 (1997).

M. Conti
Solidification of binary alloys: thermal effects studied with the phase-field model
Phys. Rev. E 55, 765 (1997).

M. Conti
Growth of a needle crystal from an undercooled alloy melt
Phys. Rev. E 56, 3197 (1997).

M. Conti
Solute trapping in directional solidification at high speed: a one- dimensional study with the phase-field model
Phys. Rev. E 56, 3717 (1997).

M. Conti
Oscillatory instabilities in rapid directional solidification
Phys. Rev. E 56, 6267R (1997).

M. Conti, B. Meerson, P. V. Sasorov
Breakdown of scale invariance in the phase ordering of fractal clusters
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4693 (1998).

M. Conti
Interface dynamics, instabilities and solute bands in rapid directional solidification
Phys. Rev. E 58, 2071 (1998).

M. Conti
Heat diffusion and banding in rapid directional solidification
Phys. Rev. E 58, 6166 (1998).

M. Conti
Transition from dendritic to planar growth and banded structure formation in rapidly solidified alloys
Phys. Rev. E 58, 6101 (1998).

M. Conti
Oscillatory instabilities and banded structures in rapidly solidified alloys
Journal of Crystal Growth 198/199, 1251 (1999).

M. Conti, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi and A. Crisanti
A microscopic model for solidification
Europhys. Lett. 47, 338 (1999).

M. Conti
Phase and solute field across the solid-liquid interface of a binary alloy
Phys. Rev. E 60, 1913 (1999).

M. Conti
Thermal and chemical diffusion in the rapid solidification of binary alloys
Phys. Rev. E 61, 642 (2000).

U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, M. Conti and A. Vulpiani
Motion of a granular particle on a rough line
Europhys. Lett. 51, 685 (2000).

M. Conti and U. Marini Bettolo Marconi
Novel Monte-Carlo lattice approach to rapid directional solidification of binary alloys
Physica A 277, 35 (2000).

M. Conti and U. Marini Bettolo Marconi
Interfacial dynamics in rapid solidification processes
Physica A 280, 148 (2000).

M. Conti and U. Marini Bettolo Marconi
Groove instability in cellular solidification
Phys. Rev. E 63, 011502 (2000).

M. Conti
Curvature effects in rapid alloy solidification
Phys. Rev. E 63, 041507 (2001).

L. Fioretti and M. Conti
Heat transfer analysis for the hydraulic circuit of an expresso-coffee machine
Task Quarterly 5, 99 (2001).

A. Peleg, B. Meerson, A. Vilenkin and M. Conti
Area-preserving dynamics of a long slender finger by curvature: A test case for globally conserved phase ordering
Phys. Rev. E 63, 066101 (2001).

A. Peleg, M. Conti and B. Meerson
Normal scaling in globally conserved interface-controlled coarsening of fractal clusters
Phys. Rev. E 64, 036127 (2001).

Massimo Conti
Density change in crystal growth from the melt
Phys. Rev. E 64, 051601 (2001).

Massimo Conti, Baruch Meerson, Avner Peleg and Pavel V. Sasorov
Phase ordering with a global conservation law: Ostwald ripening and coalescence.
Phys. Rev. E 65, 046117 (2002).

Massimo Conti and Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi
Fingering in slow combustion
Physica A 312, 381 (2002).

Massimo Conti
Density effects and fluid flow in phase-field models
in Interface and Transport Dynamics, edited by Heike Emmerich et al.. Springer, Berlin (2003).

M. Conti and M. Fermani
Interface dynamics and solute trapping in alloy solidification with density change
Phys. Rev. E 67, 026117 (2003).

Laszlo Granasy, Tamas Pusztay, Gyula Toth, Zoltan Jurek, Massimo Conti and Bjorn Kvamme
Phase field theory of crystal nucleation in hard sphere liquid
Journal of Chemical Physics, 119, 10376 (2003)

U. Marini Bettolo Marconi and Massimo Conti
Dynamics of vibrofluidized granular gases in periodic structures
Phys. Rev. E 69, 011302 (2004)

Massimo Conti
Pressure effects for crystal growth in a closed system
Phys. Rev. E 70, 1 (2004)

Massimo Conti
Advection flow effects in the growth of a free dendrite
Phys. Rev. E 69, 022601 (2004)

Massimo Conti, Azi Lipshtat and Baruch Meerson
Scaling anomalies in the coarsening dynamics of fractal viscous fingering patterns
Phys. Rev. E 69, 031406 (2004)

Azi Lipshtat, Baruch Meerson and Massimo Conti
Simulating coarsening dynamics of fractal clusters
Chaos: An interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 14, S13 (2004)