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Overview

Maurizio Brocchini is affiliated with Marche Polytechnic University in Italy, with a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their body of work includes significant contributions to subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Ocean Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of scientific areas including Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Aeolian Processes and Effects, and Geological Formations and Processes.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brocchini include Matteo Postacchini, Lorenzo Melito, Gianluca Zitti, Francesco Marini, and Massimo Falchi.

Several recent papers reflect the scope of their research interests, such as:

  • Effects of stiffness and configuration of brace-viscous damper systems on the response mitigation of offshore jacket platforms (2020), published in Applied Ocean Research
  • Hydrodynamics at a microtidal inlet: Analysis of propagation of the main wave components (2020), published in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Machine learning application in modelling marine and coastal phenomena: a critical review (2023), published in Frontiers in Environmental Engineering
  • Wave- and Tide-Induced Infragravity Dynamics at an Intermediate-To-Dissipative Microtidal Beach (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Sandbar dynamics in microtidal environments: Migration patterns in unprotected and bounded beaches (2020), published in Coastal Engineering

Broccoli's research has been featured frequently in journals such as Physics of Fluids, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Default Digital Object Group, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, and SSRN Electronic Journal. These venues indicate a multidisciplinary approach, addressing both fluid dynamics and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • The dynamics of strong turbulence at free surfaces. Part 1. Description

    M. Brocchini;D. H. Peregrine

  • Wave impact loads: The role of the flip-through

    C. Lugni;M. Brocchini;O. M. Faltinsen

  • A reasoned overview on Boussinesq-type models: the interplay between physics, mathematics and numerics

    Maurizio Brocchini

  • Recent advances in modeling swash zone dynamics: Influence of surf-swash interaction on nearshore hydrodynamics and morphodynamics

    M. Brocchini;T. E. Baldock

  • On the modeling of sand wave migration

    Giovanni Besio;Paolo Blondeaux;Maurizio Brocchini;Giovanna Vittori

  • The dynamics of strong turbulence at free surfaces. Part 2. Free-surface boundary conditions

    M. Brocchini;D. H. Peregrine

  • Integral flow properties of the swash zone and averaging

    M. Brocchini;D. H. Peregrine

  • An efficient solver for nearshore flows based on the WAF method

    M. Brocchini;R. Bernetti;A. Mancinelli;G. Albertini

  • Nonlinear Shallow Water Equation Modeling for Coastal Engineering

    Maurizio Brocchini;Maurizio Brocchini;Nicholas Dodd;Nicholas Dodd

  • Experimental investigation and numerical modelling of steep forced water waves

    H. Bredmose;M. Brocchini;D.H. Peregrine;Laurent Thais

  • Local scour around structures and the phenomenology of turbulence

    Costantino Manes;Maurizio Brocchini

  • Evolution of the air cavity during a depressurized wave impact. II. The dynamic field

    C. Lugni;M. Brocchini;O. M. Faltinsen

  • Evolution of the air cavity during a depressurized wave impact. I. The kinematic flow field

    C. Lugni;M. Miozzi;M. Brocchini;O. M. Faltinsen

  • A study of violent sloshing wave impacts using an improved SPH method

    Andrea Colagrossi;Claudio Lugni;Maurizio Brocchini

  • The morphodynamics of tidal sand waves: A model overview

    G. Besio;P. Blondeaux;M. Brocchini;Suzanne J.M.H. Hulscher

  • Towards the simulation of flood evacuation in urban scenarios: experiments to estimate human motion speed in floodwaters

    Gabriele Bernardini;Enrico Quagliarini;Marco D'Orazio;Maurizio Brocchini

  • The Boundary Value Problem for the Nonlinear Shallow Water Equations

    Matteo Antuono;Maurizio Brocchini

  • An experimental study on sediment transport and bed evolution under different swash zone morphological conditions

    José M. Alsina;Iván Cáceres;Maurizio Brocchini;Tom E. Baldock

  • Advances in numerical modelling of swash zone dynamics

    Riccardo Briganti;Alec Torres-Freyermuth;Tom E. Baldock;Maurizio Brocchini

  • A preliminary combined simulation tool for the risk assessment of pedestrians’ flood-induced evacuation

    Gabriele Bernardini;Matteo Postacchini;Enrico Quagliarini;Maurizio Brocchini

  • Topographically controlled, breaking-wave-induced macrovortices. Part 1. Widely separated breakwaters

    M. Brocchini;A. Kennedy;L. Soldini;A. Mancinelli

  • The mean and turbulent flow structure of a weak hydraulic jump

    S. K. Misra;J. T. Kirby;M. Brocchini;F. Veron

Frequent Co-Authors

James T. Kirby
James T. Kirby University of Delaware
Tom E. Baldock
Tom E. Baldock University of Queensland
Odd M. Faltinsen
Odd M. Faltinsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Stefano Lenci
Stefano Lenci Marche Polytechnic University
Diego Vicinanza
Diego Vicinanza University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Christophe Ancey
Christophe Ancey École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Chandra Kambhamettu
Chandra Kambhamettu University of Delaware
Paolo Ciavola
Paolo Ciavola University of Ferrara
Georg Umgiesser
Georg Umgiesser National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Miguel A. Losada
Miguel A. Losada University of Granada

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