Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics
Research group:
- Alessandro Valiani, Eng. Ph.D., Professor
- Valerio Caleffi, Eng. Ph.D., Associate Professor
- Leonardo Schippa, Eng. Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Main research activities:
- numerical modeling of the 1D and 2D Shallow Water Equations, with fixed and mobile bed, to be applied to engineering problems (e.g. two phase - solid and liquid - free surface flows with intense or moderate sediment transport; free-surface subcritical and supercritical flows in channel bends; Dam break modeling);
- high-order numerical schemes (e.g. WENO and Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin schemes);
- numerical simulation of the contaminant transport in rivers;
- classical problems in Hydraulics (e.g. theoretical investigation on hydraulic jump: mass, linear momentum and angular momentum conservation laws);
- computational Hemodynamics;
- rheological behaviour of granular-fluid materials (debris and mud flow, iperconcentrated flow and trasport phenomena);
- numerical modelling of alluvium river for long-term effects associated with climate change and human activities.