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Italy
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
80
Citations
31622
World Ranking
521
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2017 - Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, American Physical Society
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1999 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For development and application of lattice Boltzmann and other computational methods that successfully marry continuum and statistical mechanical approaches to complex physics problems

Overview

Sauro Succi is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with significant focus on Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics in Sauro Succi's work include Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies, Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.

The scientist has published frequently in several venues. The most common publication venues are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Default Digital Object Group
  • Journal of Computational Science
  • Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Extreme flow simulations reveal skeletal adaptations of deep-sea sponges, 2021, Nature
  • Natural Convection Heat Transfer in a Porous Cavity with Sinusoidal Temperature Distribution Using Cu/Water Nanofluid: Double MRT Lattice Boltzmann Method, 2020, Communications in Computational Physics
  • Discrete Boltzmann multi-scale modelling of non-equilibrium multiphase flows, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Models of polymer solutions in electrified jets and solution blowing, 2020, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • Quantum computing for fluids: Where do we stand?, 2023, Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Collaborations have been a significant part of their research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marco Lauricella
  • Andrea Montessori
  • Adriano Tiribocchi
  • Mihir Durve
  • Fabio Bonaccorso

The scientist has received several awards and honors. These include:

  • Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, American Physical Society, 2017
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2015
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 1999, recognized for the development and application of lattice Boltzmann and other computational methods that successfully integrate continuum and statistical mechanical approaches to complex physics problems

Best Publications

  • The Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Fluid Dynamics and Beyond

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  • The lattice Boltzmann equation: theory and applications

    R. Benzi;S. Succi;M. Vergassola

  • Extended self-similarity in turbulent flows

    R. Benzi;S. Ciliberto;R. Tripiccione;C. Baudet

  • Lattice Gas Dynamics with Enhanced Collisions

    F. J. Higuera;S. Succi;R. Benzi

  • MHD-limits to plasma confinement

    F Troyon;R Gruber;H Saurenmann;S Semenzato

  • Extended Boltzmann kinetic equation for turbulent flows.

    Hudong Chen;Satheesh Kandasamy;Steven Orszag;Rick Shock

  • Generalized lattice Boltzmann method with multirange pseudopotential

    M Sbragaglia;R Benzi;L Luca Biferale;S Succi

  • Three-Dimensional Flows in Complex Geometries with the Lattice Boltzmann Method

    S. Succi;E. Foti;E. Foti;F. Higuera

  • The lattice Boltzmann equation: a new tool for computational fluid-dynamics

    Sauro Succi;Roberto Benzi;Francisco Higuera

  • Ground state of trapped interacting bose-einstein condensates by an explicit imaginary-time algorithm

    M. L. Chiofalo;S. Succi;M. P. Tosi

  • Mesoscopic Modeling of Slip Motion at Fluid-Solid Interfaces with Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Sauro Succi

  • The Lattice Boltzmann Equation

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  • Recent Advances in Lattice Boltzmann Computing

    Y. H. Qian;S. Succi;S. A. Orszag

  • Mesoscopic modeling of a two-phase flow in the presence of boundaries: The contact angle.

    R Benzi;L Luca Biferale;M Sbragaglia;S Succi

  • Expanded analogy between Boltzmann kinetic theory of fluids and turbulence

    Hudong Chen;Steven A. Orszag;Ilya Staroselsky;Sauro Succi

  • The lattice Boltzmann equation on irregular lattices

    Francesca Nannelli;Sauro Succi

  • The permeability of a random medium: Comparison of simulation with theory

    Antonio Cancelliere;Celeste Chang;Enrico Foti;Daniel H. Rothman

  • The Lattice Boltzmann Equation: For Complex States of Flowing Matter

    Sauro Succi

  • Lattice Boltzmann equation for quantum mechanics

    S. Succi;R. Benzi

  • Surface Roughness-Hydrophobicity Coupling in Microchannel and Nanochannel Flows

    M Sbragaglia;R Benzi;L Luca Biferale;S Succi

  • Colloquium: Role of the H theorem in lattice Boltzmann hydrodynamic simulations

    Sauro Succi;Iliya V. Karlin;Hudong Chen

  • Analytical calculation of slip flow in lattice Boltzmann models with kinetic boundary conditions

    M. Sbragaglia;S. Succi

  • Numerical solution of the gross-pitaevskii equation using an explicit finite-difference scheme: An application to trapped bose-einstein condensates

    M. M. Cerimele;M. L. Chiofalo;F. Pistella;S. Succi

  • Lattice Boltzmann method at finite Knudsen numbers

    Federico Toschi;Sauro Succi

  • Numerical methods for atomic quantum gases with applications to Bose–Einstein condensates and to ultracold fermions

    A Minguzzi;S Succi;F Federico Toschi;MP Tosi

  • A flexible high-performance Lattice Boltzmann GPU code for the simulations of fluid flows in complex geometries

    Massimo Bernaschi;Massimiliano Fatica;Simone Melchionna;Sauro Succi

Frequent Co-Authors

Federico Toschi
Federico Toschi Eindhoven University of Technology
Hans J. Herrmann
Hans J. Herrmann ESPCI Paris
Giacomo Falcucci
Giacomo Falcucci University of Rome Tor Vergata
Stefano Ubertini
Stefano Ubertini Tuscia University
Efthimios Kaxiras
Efthimios Kaxiras Harvard University
Dario Pisignano
Dario Pisignano University of Pisa
Peter V. Coveney
Peter V. Coveney University College London
Kai H. Luo
Kai H. Luo University College London
David A. Weitz
David A. Weitz Harvard University

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