Marco Castelli

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Marco Castelli is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Castelli has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 31 papers in Computational Mechanics and 28 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Marco Castelli's work include Wind Energy Research and Development (38 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (28 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (13 papers). Marco Castelli is often cited by papers focused on Wind Energy Research and Development (38 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (28 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (13 papers). Marco Castelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Ireland. Marco Castelli's co-authors include Ernesto Benini, Lorenzo Battisti, Gabriele Bedon, E. Benini, A. Brighenti, Andrea Dal Monte, Renaud Jourdain, Paul Shore, Giorgio Pavesi and Guido Ardizzon and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Marco Castelli

76 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Darrieus wind turbine: Proposal for a new performance... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Darrieus wind turbine: Proposal for a new performance prediction model based on CFD
    2011 445 citations Marco Castelli, Ernesto Benini et al. Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marco Castelli Italy 20 1.4k 914 606 180 164 81 1.8k
Weijun Zhu China 24 1.3k 0.9× 829 0.9× 602 1.0× 52 0.3× 232 1.4× 137 1.8k
Tian Li China 18 320 0.2× 309 0.3× 334 0.6× 68 0.4× 226 1.4× 68 908
Thomas Buhl Denmark 18 676 0.5× 219 0.2× 307 0.5× 575 3.2× 146 0.9× 40 1.7k
K. Velusamy India 25 947 0.7× 133 0.1× 971 1.6× 95 0.5× 103 0.6× 148 2.0k
Soon-Duck Kwon South Korea 19 548 0.4× 330 0.4× 334 0.6× 42 0.2× 445 2.7× 56 1.4k
Hang Meng China 15 299 0.2× 170 0.2× 176 0.3× 52 0.3× 230 1.4× 73 743
Cyrus B. Meher-Homji United States 23 758 0.5× 60 0.1× 588 1.0× 146 0.8× 172 1.0× 83 1.5k
Gustavo Alonso Spain 17 267 0.2× 306 0.3× 596 1.0× 33 0.2× 145 0.9× 40 1.2k
Guoqing Wu China 13 400 0.3× 162 0.2× 148 0.2× 43 0.2× 92 0.6× 46 740
Borut Mavko Slovenia 20 564 0.4× 78 0.1× 402 0.7× 108 0.6× 147 0.9× 104 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Marco Castelli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marco Castelli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marco Castelli. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Marco Castelli. The network helps show where Marco Castelli may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Castelli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marco Castelli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marco Castelli based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marco Castelli. Marco Castelli is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Castelli, Marco, et al.. (2025). Study on photocatalysis/vibration-assisted finishing for deterministic polishing. Precision Engineering. 95. 52–58.
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Castelli, Marco, et al.. (2023). Polishing Approaches at Atomic and Close-to-Atomic Scale. Micromachines. 14(2). 343–343. 22 indexed citations
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Bennett, Adam, et al.. (2023). The Satisloh plasma polisher: plasma surface figuring ultra precision optics. 14–14. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Peizhi, Marco Castelli, & Fengzhou Fang. (2022). Mechanism of photo-assisted atomic layer etching of chlorinated Si(111) surfaces: Insights from DFT/TDDFT calculations. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 153. 107169–107169. 4 indexed citations
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Battisti, Lorenzo, et al.. (2018). Small wind turbine effectiveness in the urban environment. Renewable Energy. 129. 102–113. 68 indexed citations
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Battisti, Lorenzo, E. Benini, A. Brighenti, et al.. (2016). Normalized performance and load data for the deepwind demonstrator in controlled conditions. Data in Brief. 8. 1120–1126. 7 indexed citations
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Battisti, Lorenzo, A. Brighenti, E. Benini, & Marco Castelli. (2016). Analysis of Different Blade Architectures on small VAWT Performance. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 753. 62009–62009. 52 indexed citations
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Battisti, Lorenzo, E. Benini, A. Brighenti, et al.. (2016). Wind tunnel testing of the DeepWind demonstrator in design and tilted operating conditions. Energy. 111. 484–497. 39 indexed citations
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Castelli, Marco, et al.. (2015). Validation of Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS) for pool fire in large enclosures. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 3 indexed citations
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Viscusi, Gianluigi, Marco Castelli, & Carlo Batini. (2014). Assessing Social Value in Open Data Initiatives: A Framework. Future Internet. 6(3). 498–517. 16 indexed citations
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Bedon, Gabriele, Marco Castelli, & Ernesto Benini. (2013). Experimental Tests Of A Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine With Twisted Blades. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations
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Castelli, Marco, et al.. (2013). Numerical Evaluation Of The Contribution Of Inertial And Aerodynamic Forces On Vawt Blade Loading. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 7(6). 1047–1052. 3 indexed citations
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Castelli, Marco, et al.. (2013). A Retrospective Of Wind Turbine Architectural Integration In The Built Environment. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 7(6). 417–421. 2 indexed citations
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Castelli, Marco, et al.. (2013). On the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy criterion of rotating grids in 2D vertical-axis wind turbine analysis. Renewable Energy. 62. 53–62. 82 indexed citations
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Jourdain, Renaud, Marco Castelli, Paul Morantz, & Paul Shore. (2012). Plasma surface figuring of large optical components. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8430. 843011–843011. 5 indexed citations
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Castelli, Marco, Renaud Jourdain, Paul Morantz, & Paul Shore. (2012). Rapid optical surface figuring using reactive atom plasma. Precision Engineering. 36(3). 467–476. 58 indexed citations
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Castelli, Marco, et al.. (2012). Numerical Simulation Of The Flow Field Around A 30° Inclined Flat Plate. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Castelli, Marco, et al.. (2012). Proposal Of A Means For Reducing The Torque Variation On A Vertical-Axis Water Turbine By Increasing The Blade Number. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 7 indexed citations
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Castelli, Marco, Guido Ardizzon, Lorenzo Battisti, Ernesto Benini, & Giorgio Pavesi. (2010). Modeling Strategy and Numerical Validation for a Darrieus Vertical Axis Micro-Wind Turbine. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento). 409–418. 120 indexed citations
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Boldrini, Renata, Rita De Vito, Antonio Menditto, et al.. (2005). A child with painful legs. The Lancet. 365(9468). 1438–1438. 11 indexed citations

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