About

I have been working mainly on laboratory experiments. I started my research by running laboratory experiments on sediment transport and then I moved to a different research topic, stratified and rotating flows. In the last few years, I also used 3D Large Eddy Simulations for the investigation of stratified flows. In laboratory experiments, I can control external parameters and measure the variables of interest (including 2D density and velocity fields), with an estimate of measurement error. When I started to use LES for the investigation of gravity currents, I first simulated some experiments performed in the laboratory and checked the quality of LES results by comparing them with laboratory measurements. I found a high level of consistency which gave me reason to believe in the performed simulations and the impetus to go ahead with the numerical investigation. In my work, I used high resolution 3D Large Eddy Simulations, which can be considered as numerical experiments, to get variables I was not able to measure in the laboratory (such as instantaneous 3D velocity and density fields in the whole domain).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Fluid Mechanics Experimental Fluid Mechanics Hydrodynamics Hydraulic Engineering Hydraulics Turbulence Environmental Engineering Civil Engineering Numerical Simulation Numerical Modeling

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