Emanuele Terrile
PhD in Fluid dynamics
Affiliation: D.A.M.T.P.,
University of Cambridge
Address: Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
Email: [email protected]
Research interests
Actually I am a David Crighton Fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics an Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, working with Prof. M.E. McIntyre on GLM models.
I defended my PhD thesis in Fluid Dynamics on "Vorticity dynamics in the nearshore flows" in 2008. Supervisor Prof. M. Brocchini (Università Politecnica delle Marche). I analyzed the nearshore circulation and related mixing using both theoretical and numerical tools, with particular attention on the vorticity transport and macrovortex dynamics. Some of these studies has been performed in collaboration with Prof. J.Kirby (Center for Applied Coastal Research at University of Delaware) and Dr. R. Briganti (University of Nottingham).
I completed my MS (5 years curriculum and training) in Civil Engineering with Specialization in Hydraulics in 2004, with a Thesis on "The threshold of motion of coarse sediment particles by regular non-breaking waves". Supervisor: Prof. M. Brocchini and Prof. M.J.F.Stive, advisor: Prof. H.J.Verhagen.
My research interests concern the nearshore circulation, physical and numerical aspects (Wave-averaged, Boussinesq and Nonlinear Shallow Water models, GLM description and nearshore macrovortices). In particular I am interested on the vorticity dynamics in such zone, how it evolves and how it can influence the nearshore hydrodynamics, mixing and sediment transport. Moreover different collaborations brang me to study more in details both sediment transports mechanisms and pollution problems related with oil slicks dynamics.
During the last years I had the opportunity to have good collaborations in different research projects.
Since I was at Delft University of Technology as Erasmus Fellow I have been working with Prof. M.J.F. Stive (TU Delft) and Prof. A.J.H.M. Reniers (University of Miami and TU Delft), with whom I instituted on going collaboration. Through some laboratory experiments we performed in a wave flume of the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics (TU Deft), we are studying in detail the physical mechanisms of the sediment transport due to surface waves.
As Marie Curie Fellow I had the opportunity to be visiting student at the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (Norwegian Center of Excellence at the University of Bergen). There I collaborated with Dr. K. Drinkwater studying the Norwegian Coastal Current.
Recently, I am also working with Dr. K.H. Christenen (University of Oslo) on both Lagrangian-like analysis for nearshore models and Oil Slicks dynamics forced by deep water waves.
Publications
(Feel free to look at my CV.)
Journal papers ('refereed')
- Terrile, E, Brocchini, M, Christensen, KH, and Kirby, JT, (2008)." Dispersive effects on wave-current interaction and vorticity transport in nearshore flows", Phys. Fluids, 20(3), 8 pages.
- Terrile, E, and Brocchini, M, (2007). "A dissipative point-vortex model for nearshore circulation ", J. Fluid Mech, 589, pages 454-477.
- Terrile, E, Briganti, R, Brocchini, M, and Kirby, JT, (2006)."Topographycally-induced enstrophy production/dissipation in coastal models", Phys. Fluids, 18(12), 126603, 25 pages.
- Terrile, E., Reniers, AJHM, Stive, MJF, Tromp, M, and Verhagen, HJ, (2006)."Incipient motion of coarse particles under regular shoaling waves", Coastal Eng., 53(1), 81-92.
Conference papers ('refereed')
- Christensen, KH, and Terrile, E, (2008)."Temporal and spatial changes in surfactant concentration caused by capillary-gravity waves", Accepted for presentation at the Euromech Colloquium N.501 on Mixing of coastal, estaurine and riverine shallow flows, Ancona, Italy.
- Terrile, E, and Brocchini, M, (2008)."Macrovortex-induced mixing at the nearshore", Accepted for presentation at the Euromech Colloquium N.501 on Mixing of coastal, estaurine and riverine shallow flows, Ancona, Italy.
- Christensen, KH, and Terrile, E, (2008)."A fully coupled model for the wave-induced drift of oil slicks". Accepted for presentation at ISOPE 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
- Terrile, E, and Brocchini, M, (2008)."Describing vortical nearshore flows by means of a dissipative Point Vortex model". Accepted for presentation at ICCE 2008, Hamburg, Germany.
- Terrile, E, (2007). "Modelling vortical nearshore flows and related circulation forced by a complex topography", Proc. 32nd Congress of IAHR, JFK Student Competition, Venice, Italy.
- Terrile, E, Briganti, R, Brocchini, M, and Kirby, JT, (2006)."Produzione/dissipazione di enstrofia e vorticità nei modelli di circolazione costiera", Proc. 30th Italian Conference on Hydraulics, IDRA 2006, Rome, Italy.
- Terrile, E, Reniers, AJHM, and Stive, MJF, (2006)."Instantaneous bed shear stresses in shoaling waves", Proc. 30th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, ICCE 2006, San Diego, California.
- Stive, MJF, Terrile, E, Reniers, AJHM, and Verhagen, HJ, (2005)."Motion threshold of coarse particle under regular shoaling waves", Proc. of Canadian Coastal Conference, CCC 2005, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Stive, MJF, Reniers, AJHM, Terrile, E, and Verhagen, HJ, (2005)."Coarse particle'threshold of motion under shoaling waves", Proc. of Coastal Dynamics, CD 2005, Barcelona, Spain.
