All Outputs (36)

Numerical analysis and prediction of the effect of debris initial configurations on their dispersion during extreme-hydrodynamic events (2025)
Journal Article
Ruffini, G., Briganti, R., Stolle, J., & De Girolamo, P. (2025). Numerical analysis and prediction of the effect of debris initial configurations on their dispersion during extreme-hydrodynamic events. Coastal Engineering, 198, Article 104702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104702

Tsunamis and other extreme hydrodynamic events have the potential to transport large debris that, along with the flow, are capable of causing severe damage to coastal structures and infrastructures. Therefore, modelling such processes is essential wh... Read More about Numerical analysis and prediction of the effect of debris initial configurations on their dispersion during extreme-hydrodynamic events.

A Revolutionary Deep Generative Modelling for Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Masonry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adaileh, A., Ghiassi, B., & Briganti, R. (2024, July). A Revolutionary Deep Generative Modelling for Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Masonry. Presented at 18th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, Birmingham, UK

The primary challenge in designing and analysing masonry structures is predicting their mechanical response. In particular, fast and direct prediction of masonry mechanical response field is desirable. This motivates the present study to introduce an... Read More about A Revolutionary Deep Generative Modelling for Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Masonry.

Deep generative modelling for nonlinear analysis and in-situ assessment of masonry using multiple mechanical fields (2024)
Journal Article
Adaileh, A., Ghiassi, B., & Briganti, R. (2024). Deep generative modelling for nonlinear analysis and in-situ assessment of masonry using multiple mechanical fields. Construction and Building Materials, 456, Article 138745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.138745

Design and in-situ assessment of masonry structures is a challenging task due to the brittle and nonlinear nature of this widely used material, the complex interaction between its components, and the vast variability of material properties in its des... Read More about Deep generative modelling for nonlinear analysis and in-situ assessment of masonry using multiple mechanical fields.

Effects of tidal range and signicant wave height on delta development (2024)
Journal Article
Sloan, E., Dodd, N., & Briganti, R. (2024). Effects of tidal range and signicant wave height on delta development. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(9), Article e2024JF007688. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024jf007688

Only around 40% of rivers globally have deltas, but the conditions which inhibit or facilitate river delta formation are not well understood. Many studies have investigated the response of delta development to marine and river conditions. However, fe... Read More about Effects of tidal range and signicant wave height on delta development.

Nine months of daily LiDAR, orthophotos and MetOcean data from the eroding soft cliff coast at Happisburgh, UK (2024)
Journal Article
Pennington, C., Shaw, M., Brooks, T., Briganti, R., Gómez-Pazo, A., Ruffini, G., Appleton, M., & Payo, A. (2024). Nine months of daily LiDAR, orthophotos and MetOcean data from the eroding soft cliff coast at Happisburgh, UK. Scientific Data, 11(1), Article 846. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03499-3

The dynamic interaction between cliff, beach and shore-platform is key to assessing the sediment balance for coastal erosion risk assessments, but this is poorly understood. We present a dataset containing daily, 3D, colour LiDAR scans of a 450 m coa... Read More about Nine months of daily LiDAR, orthophotos and MetOcean data from the eroding soft cliff coast at Happisburgh, UK.

Effects of the structural mass on the waterborne debris impact force (2024)
Journal Article
De Iasio, A., Ghiassi, B., & Briganti, R. (2024). Effects of the structural mass on the waterborne debris impact force. Engineering Structures, 318, Article 118719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.118719

In flood- and tsunamis-prone areas, waterborne debris impacts on structures cannot be neglected in structural design and assessment. For these purposes, the current practice is to represent these loads with their force-time (F-t) diagram and use them... Read More about Effects of the structural mass on the waterborne debris impact force.

Numerical modelling of tsunami propagation in idealised converging water body geometries (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, Z., Heller, V., & Briganti, R. (2024). Numerical modelling of tsunami propagation in idealised converging water body geometries. Coastal Engineering, 189, Article 104482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2024.104482

Tsunamis have caused many severe natural disasters in human history, such as in 2018 at Palu City located in a narrow bay resulting in over 4340 fatalities. The tsunami propagation characteristics are greatly affected by the water body geometry. For... Read More about Numerical modelling of tsunami propagation in idealised converging water body geometries.

A novel machine learning-based approach for nonlinear analysis and in-situ assessment of masonry (2023)
Journal Article
Adaileh, A., Ghiassi, B., & Briganti, R. (2023). A novel machine learning-based approach for nonlinear analysis and in-situ assessment of masonry. Construction and Building Materials, 408, Article 133291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.133291

Predicting the local and global mechanical response of masonry structures or estimating their in-situ properties are critical and challenging for the design or assessment of these structures. This article presents a fast prediction/assessment model,... Read More about A novel machine learning-based approach for nonlinear analysis and in-situ assessment of masonry.

High strain rate effects in masonry structures under waterborne debris impacts (2023)
Journal Article
De Iasio, A., Ghiassi, B., Briganti, R., & Milani, G. (2023). High strain rate effects in masonry structures under waterborne debris impacts. Engineering Structures, 297, Article 116911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2023.116911

Masonry buildings are vulnerable to extreme hydrodynamic events such as floods or tsunamis. Post-disaster surveys have shown that waterborne debris impacts can significantly damage masonry walls during these events. To simulate these actions, the cur... Read More about High strain rate effects in masonry structures under waterborne debris impacts.

Numerical validation of novel scaling laws for air–water flows including compressibility and heat transfer (2023)
Journal Article
Catucci, D., Briganti, R., & Heller, V. (2023). Numerical validation of novel scaling laws for air–water flows including compressibility and heat transfer. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 61(4), 517-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221686.2023.2225462

Air–water flows are among the most important flow types in hydraulic engineering. Their experimental modelling at reduced size using Froude scaling laws introduces scale effects. This study introduces novel scaling laws for compressible air–water flo... Read More about Numerical validation of novel scaling laws for air–water flows including compressibility and heat transfer.

Analytical and Numerical Study of Novel Scaling Laws for Air-Water Flows (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Catucci, D., Briganti, R., & Heller, V. (2022, June). Analytical and Numerical Study of Novel Scaling Laws for Air-Water Flows. Presented at 39th IAHR World Congress (Granada, 2022), Granada, Spain

Physical modelling in the laboratory is widely used for hydraulic investigations. Froude similarity results in significant scale effects in small models for flows involving air-entrainment. Such air-water flows are essential for many hydraulic applic... Read More about Analytical and Numerical Study of Novel Scaling Laws for Air-Water Flows.

MESH-IN: A MESHed INlet offline coupling method for 3-D extreme hydrodynamic events in DualSPHysics (2022)
Journal Article
Ruffini, G., Domínguez, J. M., Briganti, R., Altomare, C., Stolle, J., Crespo, A. J., Ghiassi, B., Capasso, S., & De Girolamo, P. (2023). MESH-IN: A MESHed INlet offline coupling method for 3-D extreme hydrodynamic events in DualSPHysics. Ocean Engineering, 268, Article 113400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.113400

Extreme hydrodynamic events, such as those driven by tsunamis, have a significant impact on coastal environments. The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics computational method gained popularity in modelling these phenomena. However, high resolution is nee... Read More about MESH-IN: A MESHed INlet offline coupling method for 3-D extreme hydrodynamic events in DualSPHysics.

Wave overtopping at near-vertical seawalls: Influence of foreshore evolution during storms (2022)
Journal Article
Briganti, R., Musumeci, R. E., van der Meerc, J., Romanoe, A., Stancanelli, L. M., Kudella, M., Akbar, R., Mukhdiar, R., Altomare, C., Suzuki, T., De Girolamo, P., Besio, G., Dodd, N., Zhun, F., & Schimmels, S. (2022). Wave overtopping at near-vertical seawalls: Influence of foreshore evolution during storms. Ocean Engineering, 261, Article 112024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.112024

This work presents the results of an investigation on how wave overtopping at a near-vertical seawall at the back of a sandy foreshore is influenced by sequences of erosive storms. The experiments were carried out in the Large Wave Flume (GWK) at Lei... Read More about Wave overtopping at near-vertical seawalls: Influence of foreshore evolution during storms.

A logarithmic bottom boundary layer model for the unsteady and non-uniform swash flow (2021)
Journal Article
Zhu, F., Dodd, N., Briganti, R., & Larson, M. (2022). A logarithmic bottom boundary layer model for the unsteady and non-uniform swash flow. Coastal Engineering, 172, Article 104048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.104048

This paper presents a bottom boundary layer model for the unsteady and non-uniform flow in the swash zone, by extending the momentum integral method so as to include spatial gradients. The developed model is further incorporated into a hydrodynamic m... Read More about A logarithmic bottom boundary layer model for the unsteady and non-uniform swash flow.

Numerical validation of novel scaling laws for air entrainment in water (2021)
Journal Article
Catucci, D., Briganti, R., & Heller, V. (2021). Numerical validation of novel scaling laws for air entrainment in water. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 477(2255), Article 20210339. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0339

The Froude scaling laws have been used to model a wide range of water flows at reduced size for almost a century. In such Froude scale models, significant scale effects for air-water flows (e.g. hydraulic jumps or wave breaking) are typically observe... Read More about Numerical validation of novel scaling laws for air entrainment in water.

Non-stationary extreme value analysis of sea states based on linear trends. Analysis of annual maxima series of significant wave height and peak period in the Mediterranean Sea (2021)
Journal Article
De Leo, F., Besio, G., Briganti, R., & Vanem, E. (2021). Non-stationary extreme value analysis of sea states based on linear trends. Analysis of annual maxima series of significant wave height and peak period in the Mediterranean Sea. Coastal Engineering, 167, Article 103896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103896

Non-stationary Extreme Value Analysis (NEVA) allows to determine the probability of exceedance of extreme sea states taking into account trends in the time series of data at hand. In this work, we analyse the reliability of NEVA of significant wave h... Read More about Non-stationary extreme value analysis of sea states based on linear trends. Analysis of annual maxima series of significant wave height and peak period in the Mediterranean Sea.

Numerical characterisation and efficient prediction of landslide-tsunami propagation over a wide range of idealised bathymetries (2021)
Journal Article
Ruffini, G., Heller, V., & Briganti, R. (2021). Numerical characterisation and efficient prediction of landslide-tsunami propagation over a wide range of idealised bathymetries. Coastal Engineering, 167, Article 103854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103854

Landslide-tsunamis are generated by masses, such as landslides or icebergs, impacting into water bodies. Such tsunamis resulted in major catastrophes in the recent past. Generic research into landslide-tsunamis has widely been conducted in idealised... Read More about Numerical characterisation and efficient prediction of landslide-tsunami propagation over a wide range of idealised bathymetries.

Numerical modelling of intra-wave sediment transport on sandy beaches using a non-hydrostatic, wave-resolving model (2020)
Journal Article
Mancini, G., Briganti, R., McCall, R., Dodd, N., & Zhu, F. (2021). Numerical modelling of intra-wave sediment transport on sandy beaches using a non-hydrostatic, wave-resolving model. Ocean Dynamics, 71(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-020-01416-x

The mutual feedback between the swash zone and the surf zone is known to affect large-scale morphodynamic processes such as breaker bar migration on sandy beaches. To fully resolve this feedback in a process-based manner, the morphodynamics in the sw... Read More about Numerical modelling of intra-wave sediment transport on sandy beaches using a non-hydrostatic, wave-resolving model.

Modeling swash zone hydrodynamics using discontinuous galerkin finite-element method (2020)
Journal Article
Aboulatta, W., Dodd, N., Briganti, R., Kasem, T. H. M. A., & Zaki, M. A. F. (2021). Modeling swash zone hydrodynamics using discontinuous galerkin finite-element method. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 147(2), Article 04020051. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29WW.1943-5460.0000618

A two-dimensional numerical model for the solution of the nonlinear shallow water equations (NSWEs) using the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) is presented. A new adaptation of the thin-film approach is developed for the wetting/d... Read More about Modeling swash zone hydrodynamics using discontinuous galerkin finite-element method.

Numerical modelling of tsunamis generated by iceberg calving validated with large-scale laboratory experiments (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, F., Heller, V., & Briganti, R. (2020). Numerical modelling of tsunamis generated by iceberg calving validated with large-scale laboratory experiments. Advances in Water Resources, 142, Article 103647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103647

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd When calving icebergs interact with water, waves of tens of meters in height, so-called iceberg-tsunamis (IBTs), may be generated. Recent examples include an IBT which reached an amplitude of 45 to 50 m in Eqip Sermia, Greenland,... Read More about Numerical modelling of tsunamis generated by iceberg calving validated with large-scale laboratory experiments.