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Antonino La Rocca

Lecturer in Thermofluids, Faculty of Engineering

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Since 2005 he has been focusing on advanced engineering and internal combustion research projects in collaboration with Ford Motor Company; work-in-progress covers a mixture of industrial-linked… read more

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Since 2005 he has been focusing on advanced engineering and internal combustion research projects in collaboration with Ford Motor Company; work-in-progress covers a mixture of industrial-linked diesel projects, with analytical, computational and experimental work elements. Dr La Rocca is author/co-author of more than 28 papers published in international journals and conferences. He is also a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers His academic and professional interests includes: Internal Combustion Engines, Combustion Systems, Fuel Economy and Emissions, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical methods, Crystal growth, Crystal morphology and Heat Transfer

  • M MCGHEE, PJ SHAYLER, A LA ROCCA, M MURPHY and I PEGG, 2012. Investigations of injection strategies for stable cold idling of an HPCR diesel engine with a compression ratio of 15.5:1 In: IMechE Conference on Fuel Systems for IC Engines, London.
  • W.M.F. WAN MAHMOOD, A. LA ROCCA, P.J. SHAYLER and F. BONATESTA, 2012. Predicted Paths of Soot Particles in the Cylinders of a Direct Injection Diesel Engine In: SAE World Congress.
  • D. LO PRESTI, C. FECAROTTI, A. CLARE, A. LA ROCCA and G. AIREY, 2012. Dual helicoidal spindle for mixing and viscosity measurements of tyre rubber modified binders In: 5th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress. (In Press.)
  • M MCGHEE, PJ SHAYLER, A LA ROCCA, M MURPHY and I PEGG, 2012. The influence of injection strategy and glow plug temperature on cycle by cycle stability under cold idling conditions for a low compression ratio, HPCR diesel engine SAE International Journal of Engines.
  • STEVENS D, A. LA ROCCA and H. POWER, 2011. A generalised RBF finite difference approach to solve nonlinear heat conduction problems on unstructured datasets.. In: Heat Transfer / Book 2
  • E BENT, P.J. SHAYLER, A LA ROCCA and C ROUARD, 2011. Investigation of Temperature Fields During Stop-Start Operation of a Spark Ignition engine and the Effect on Engine Behaviour after a Restart In: VTMS 10 - Vehicle Thermal Management Systems.
  • MACMILLAN, DJ, LA ROCCA, A, SHAYLER, PJ, MURPHY, M, PEGG, I and MORRIS, T, 2010. Comparison Of The Indicated Work Outputs, Idle Stabilities, And Heat Release Characteristics Of A Direct-Injection Diesel Engine Operating Cold At Two Compression Ratios Proceedings Of The Institution Of Mechanical Engineers Part D-Journal Of Automobile Engineering. 224(D6), 799-813
  • H. POWER, A. LA ROCCA AND S.J. BAXTER., ed., 2009. UKBIM7, Proceedings of the 7th UK conference on Boundary Integral Methods IBSN 9780956322104 Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham..
  • D MACMILLAN, A LA ROCCA, PJ SHAYLER M MURPHY, I PEGG, T MORRIS, 2009. Effect of compression ratio on combustion stability and performance of a DI diesel engine under cold conditions IMechE Conference on Internal combustion Engines: Performance, Fuel Economy and Emissions.
  • D. MACMILLIAN, A LA ROCCA P J SHAYLER, T. MORRIS, M MURPHY, I PEGG, 2009. Investigating the Effects of Multiple Pilot Injections on Stability at Cold Idle for a DI Diesel Engine SAE International Journal of Engines. 2, 370-380
  • V. LA ROCCA, A. LA ROCCA, H. POWER, 2009. Implementation of the Hermite Collocation Method for the Solution of Partial Differential Equations with Variable Coefficients. Case Study: Heat Transfer Problem La Termotecnica. 65-67
  • WAN MAHMOOD, W.M.F and F. BONATESTA, A. LA ROCCA, P.J. SHAYLER, 2008. CFD studies of in-cylinder soot particle trajectories of a DI diesel engine In: International conference on Environment, Penang, Malaysia.
  • D. MACMILLIAN, A LA ROCCA P J SHAYLER, M MURPHY AND I PEGG,, 2008. The Effect of Reducing Compression Ratio on the Work Output and Heat Release Characteristics of a DI Diesel under Cold Start Conditions SAE International Journal of Engines. 1(1), 794-803
  • LA ROCCA, A and POWER, H, 2008. A Double Boundary Collocation Hermitian Approach For The Solution Of Steady State Convection-Diffusion Problems Computers & Mathematics With Applications. 55(9), 1950-1960
  • BONATESTA F and A. LA ROCCA, P.J. SHAYLER, AND E. WAHAB, 2007. The Influence of Swirl Ratio on Soot Quantity and Distribution in the Cylinder of a Diesel Engine In: Proceedings of the European Combustion Meeting.
  • H. POWER, A. HERNANDEZ & A. LA ROCCA, 2007. Non-overlapping domain decomposition scheme for the Symmetric radial basis function mesh-less approach with double collocation at the sub-domain interfaces In: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods, BEM/MRM 29. (In Press.)
  • BROWN, N, GUPTA, V, ROCCA, A, SHAYLER, PI, MURPHY, M, PEGG, I and WATTS, M, 2007. Investigations Of Fuel Injection Strategy For Cold Starting Direct-Injection Diesel Engines Proceedings Of The Institution Of Mechanical Engineers Part D-Journal Of Automobile Engineering. 221(D11), 1415-1424
  • A. HERNANDEZ, A.LA ROCCA AND H. POWER, U. GRAUPNER AND G. ZIEGENBALG, 2006. Modelling the effect of precipitation inhibitors on the crystallization process of an over-saturation solution in gypsum in a stirring experiment Journal of Crystal Growth. 295(2), 217-230
  • A. LA ROCCA, H. POWER, 2006. A Hermite radial function collocation approach for the numerical simulation of crystallisation process in a channel Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering. 22, 119-135
  • A. LA ROCCA and H. POWER AND V. LA ROCCA, 2006. Un innovativo metodo per modellare fenomeni fisici utilizzando le funzioni a base radiale La Termotecnica. Anno IX(10), 62-65 (In Press.)
  • A.LA ROCCA, H. POWER, 2005. Free mesh basic function collocation approach for the numerical solution of system of multi-ion electrolytes International Journal for Numerical Method in Engineering. 64, 1699-1734
  • A. LA ROCCA, A.HERNANDEZ, H. POWER, 2005. Radial basis function Hermite collocation approach for the solution of time dependent convection diffusion problems Engineering analysis in boundary elements. 29(4), 303-413
  • LA ROCCA, A, ROSALES, AH and POWER, H, 2005. Radial Basis Function Hermite Collocation Approach For The Solution Of Time Dependent Convection-Diffusion Problems Engineering Analysis With Boundary Elements. 29(4), 359-370
  • A. LA ROCCA, A. HERNANDEZ ROSALES AND H. POWER, 2004. Symmetric radial basis function meshless approach for time dependent PDEs In: BEMXXVI. (In Press.)
  • A. LA ROCCA, H. POWER, M. MORALE, V. LA ROCCA, 2004. A mesh less approach based upon radial basis function Hermite collocation method for predicting cooling and freezing times of foodstuffs Computers, Materials & Continua. 2(3), 239-250
  • A. LA ROCCA, H. POWER, A. HERNANDEZ, 2003. Micro and Macro scale mathematical formulation of gypsum crystallization in the sealing process of the CRYSTECHASALIN project. In: M. POLEMIO & G. GALLICCHIO, ed., La ricerca europea per la riduzione dell`inquinamento salino delle acque sotterranee Geo – Graph S.n.c. Segrate.

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