CINECA-ISPRA B -Gravity currents generated by Lock-exchange in Unconfined Environment ROME TREE - ISPRA

As part of a collaboration agreement between the ROMA TRE university and ISPRA, the computer systems of the ISPRA and the hydraulics laboratories of the Engineering Department are used to deal in a multidisciplinary way with the study of the phenomena that occur in fluid mechanics. referred to as gravity currents. These phenomena in general have important consequences in the environmental field in a variety of situations ranging from oil spills to volcanic base surges and, in the most complex cases, to the study of avalanches and the transport of sediments on the seabed. Part of the research work is carried out on MARCONI (http://www.hpc.cineca.it/hardware/marconi, the machine implemented at CINECA which is in the Top 500 of existing supercomputers), within the framework of a CINECA ISCRA grant -B entitled: Gravity Currents generated by Lock-exchange in unconfined environment.

Riferimenti: R. Inghilesi, C. Adduce, V. Lombardi, F. Roman, and V. Armenio. Axisymmetric three-dimensional gravity currents generated by lock exchange. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 851:507–544, 2018

Luisa Ottolenghi, Claudia Adduce, Roberto Inghilesi, Vincenzo Armenio, and Federico Roman. Entrainment and mixing in unsteady gravity currents. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 54(5):541–557, 2016

Luisa Ottolenghi, Claudia Adduce, Roberto Inghilesi, Federico Roman, and Vincenzo Armenio. Mixing in lock-release gravity currents propagating up a slope. Phys. Fluids, 26:1–17, 2016.