• Extra Strain Rates in an unsteady spilling breaking wave 

      Lucarelli, Alessia; Lugni, Claudio; Falchi, Massimo; Felli, Mario; Brocchini, Maurizio (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We analyze the extra strain rates that characterize a curved, thin mixing layer induced at an unsteady spilling breaker. We focus on the flow curvature, which induces some extra rates of strain that should be accounted for ...
    • On a layer model for spilling breakers: a preliminary experimental analysis 

      Lucarelli, Alessia; Lugni, Claudio; Falchi, Massimo; Felli, Mario; Brocchini, Maurizio (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Accurate and reliable experimental data of a sloshing-induced, rapidly-evolving spilling breaker, are used to understand the specific physics of this phenomenon and to partially evaluate a simplified analytical model by ...
    • Scaling laws for the water entry of a three-dimensional body 

      Lugni, Claudio; Wang, Jingbo; Faltinsen, Odd Magnus; Bardazzi, Andrea; Lucarelli, Alessia; Duan, Wenyang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The present experimental investigation is a new way of conducting tests on model scale and of interpreting the results for the water entry of a free-falling conical body shape entrapping an air cavity. A three-dimensional ...
    • Sloshing in a rotating liquid inside a closed sea cage for fish farming 

      Tsarau, Andrei; Lugni, Claudio; Lucarelli, Alessia; Kristiansen, David; Lader, Pål Furset (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Sloshing in a sea cage with a slowly rotating liquid is investigated. The cage is axisymmetric, and the liquid is subjected to a nearly uniform angular velocity about the vertical axis of the cage. Both experimental and ...