Hydraulic Engineering

Submitted by giada.varra on Fri, 07/19/2024 - 16:22
University
University of Naples Parthenope
Faculty/school/department
Department of Engineering
Size of the team
number of researchers number of supporting staff number of PhD students
4
0
5
Composition of Joint Unit of Research, if relevant

Renata Della Morte, Luca Cozzolino, Giada Varra, Guido Benassai

PI
PI name
Renata Della Morte
PI email
renata.dellamorte@uniparthenope.it
Contact person and e-mail
Contact person
Giada Varra
Contact person e-mail
giada.varra@uniparthenope.it
Short description of research profile

The group is dedicated to the following research activities:

1) Mathematical and numerical modelling of flood phenomena for flood hazard and risk assessment in floodplains and urban areas;

2) Mathematical and numerical analysis of water interaction with hydraulic structures;

3) Machine learning approaches for modelling hydrological and hydraulic phenomena (e.g. prediction of leakages in water distribution networks);

4) Coastal vulnerability and coastal risk assessment on beaches and coasts;

5) Wave energy analysis for WECs and offshore wind mooring analysis;

6) Wave run-up and rip currents modelling and monitoring.

Research area
NATURAL SCIENCES
NATURAL SCIENCES » Mathematics
NATURAL SCIENCES » Earth and related environmental sciences
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY » Civil engineering
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY » Environmental engineering
Scientific Themes (keywords)
Flood hazard and risk
Water/structures interaction
Hydrological and hydraulic modelling
Differential equations. Mathematical models
Geo-hydrological hazards
Hydraulic structures
Numerical methods
Coastal vulnerability and risk
Publications

Representative publications

Giada Varra, Luca Cozzolino, Renata Della Morte, Sandra Soares-Frazão (2024). Shallow water equations with binary porosity and their application to urban flooding. Physics of Fluids, 36(7), 076618. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0214441.  
Luca Cozzolino, Giada Varra, Luigi Cimorelli, Renata Della Morte (2023). Mathematical and numerical modelling of rapid transients at partially lifted sluice gates. Advances in Water Resources, 181, 104562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2023.104562.
Diana Di Luccio, Pietro Patrizio Ciro Aucelli, Gianluigi Di Paola, Micla Pennetta, Matteo Berti, Giorgio Budillon, Aniello Florio, Guido Benassai (2023). An integrated approach for coastal cliff susceptibility: The case study of Procida Island (southern Italy). Science of The Total Environment, 855, 158759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158759.  
Giada Varra, Veronica Pepe, Luigi Cimorelli, Renata Della Morte, Luca Cozzolino (2020). On integral and differential porosity models for urban flooding simulation. Advances in Water Resources, 136, 103455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103455.  
V. Piscopo, G. Benassai, R. Della Morte, A. Scamardella (2020). Towards a unified formulation of time and frequency-domain models for point absorbers with single and double-body configuration. Renewable Energy, 147(1), 1525-1539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.09.111.