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LorenzoTurchini

Portrait of Lorenzo Turchini

Aerospace engineering student & maker.

BSc in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Padova, now pursuing an MSc in Aerospace Engineering (Aeronautics curriculum).

Erasmus+ exchange semester at ETSIAE, Madrid (2024–2025), and an Erasmus+ grant for my Master's thesis at RWTH Aachen University (2027).

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Selected projects

Built & shipped
01

Electronic magic & design

The Turing Box

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The Turing Box, Edison Edition: wooden box with four coloured filament bulbs lit and four toggle switchesInside the box: custom ESP board, wiring and switches
Edison Edition: the finished box and its inside.

A high-end technological take on the "Magic Switchboard". Traditional wood craftsmanship meets ESP8266 logic to create a seamless, professional illusion for performers.

  • ESP8266
  • Arduino
  • Woodworking
  • Next.js
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02

Structural engineering software

StaticaLT

staticalt.turchini.uk
StaticaLT on a TI-Nspire CX: bending moment diagram of an L-shaped frame
Bending moment diagram, screenshot from the calculator.

A 2D frame and truss solver based on the direct stiffness method, written in Lua for TI-Nspire CX calculators. It computes support reactions, internal force diagrams and the deflected shape of statically determinate and indeterminate structures.

  • Lua
  • Stiffness method
  • FEM
  • TI-Nspire
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Engineering work

Course projects · MSc
  • 2026

    Transonic drag divergence of the RAE2822 airfoil

    OpenFOAM 11 · Advanced Aerodynamics

    Compressible RANS (k-ω SST) on a structured C-grid (y+ ≤ 1); Mach sweep 0.60–0.85 with solution continuation; drag-divergence Mach number Mdd ≈ 0.75.

  • 2026

    Supersonic diamond airfoil: CFD verification

    Ansys Fluent & OpenFOAM 11 · Advanced Aerodynamics, Laboratory of CFD

    Density-based Euler simulations at M∞ = 2 with an angle-of-attack sweep; Cl and Cd within 0.2% of shock-expansion theory in both solvers; independent structured mesh with blockMesh.

  • 2026

    NACA 4412 polar at Re = 5 × 105

    Ansys Fluent with PyFluent · Laboratory of CFD

    RANS k-ω SST polar from −5° to 20° with a fully Python-scripted workflow; three-mesh sensitivity study; validation against XFoil.

  • 2025–26

    Numerical methods and aeroelasticity

    Python · Fortran/MPI · MATLAB

    2D incompressible Navier–Stokes solver validated on Poiseuille and Taylor–Green flows; MPI scaling study; trim of a flexible aircraft with coupled bending and torsion modes.

Tools
  • Ansys Fluent
  • PyFluent
  • OpenFOAM
  • XFoil
  • Patran/Nastran
  • Python
  • MATLAB
  • Fortran (MPI)
  • C++ (embedded)
  • Lua
  • Fusion 360
  • LaTeX
  • Git
  • Linux

Path

Education
  1. 2027Master's thesis
    RWTH Aachen University · Erasmus+ grant    Next
  2. 2025–2027MSc Aerospace Engineering
    University of Padova · Aeronautics curriculum    Now
  3. 09/2024–01/2025Erasmus+ exchange semester
    ETSIAE, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  4. 2022–2025BSc Aerospace Engineering
    University of Padova · Thesis on solid propellant propulsion systems

Get in touch

Projects, collaborations or questions about my work: email is the fastest way to reach me.

lorenzoturchini.lt@gmail.com