• The sinking of the El Faro: predicting real world rogue waves during Hurricane Joaquin 

      Fedele, Francesco; Lugni, Claudio; Chawla, Arun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We present a study on the prediction of rogue waves during the 1-hour sea state of Hurricane Joaquin when the Merchant Vessel El Faro sank east of the Bahamas on October 1, 2015. High-resolution hindcast of hurricane-generated ...
    • Wave dispersion in moderate channel turbulence 

      Pilloton, Chiara; Lugni, Claudio; Graziani, Giorgio; Fedele, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We study channel turbulence by interpreting its vorticity as a random sea of ocean wave packet analogues. In particular, we investigate the ocean-like properties of vortical packets applying stochastic methods developed ...