The MASTER has been activated since the Academic Year 1998-99. The students must attend theoretical and practical lectures, given by Italian and foreign researchers. Further on they have to attend special seminars given by experts of industry. The students must participate to experimental and numerical activities using some of the most diffuse numerical codes in the world.

The Course is divided in two parts. In the first one the lectures will concern: Applied Thermal and Fluid Dynamics; Thermal and Fluid Dynamics Measurements. In the second part the lectures will be relative to applications of thermal and fluid dynamics to: industrial processes at high temperatures, engines with solid propellants, engines for space, superconductivity, machines, internal combustion engines and environment.

The IDEA Doctorate can be fulfilled in three years of activity. The candidates will attend courses and seminars relative to the themes of energy and environment. The research activity is carried out with theoretical, numerical and experimental methodologies. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Numerical Laboratory of the Heat Transfer Section, it is possible to use some of the thermal and fluid dynamics codes most diffuse in the world. In the Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics Laboratories it is possible to carry out experiments on several fluid dynamics problems.

The aim of the IDEA Doctorate is to prepare the profession of a researcher in the energy sector, able to design new types of technical plants, for production, conversion and conservation of energy, for economy of the energy resources, compatible with the environment or with a controlled environmental impact.