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7479
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2035

Overview

Michele Guala is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. The research work encompasses multiple fields including Engineering, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their expertise extends into subfields such as Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology.

Their research has focused on several main topics including:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies

Scientific publications have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Energies

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michele Guala include:

  • "A velocity-variation-based formulation for bedload particle hops in rivers," 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "On the mixing length eddies and logarithmic mean velocity profile in wall turbulence," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Evidence of preferential sweeping during snow settling in atmospheric turbulence," 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "A quasi-coupled wind wave experimental framework for testing offshore wind turbine floating systems," 2021, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters
  • "Scale-Dependent Bedform Migration and Deformation in the Physical and Spectral Domains," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Michele Guala frequently collaborates with coauthors including:

  • Jiarong Hong
  • Jiaqi Li
  • Michael Heisel
  • Jiyong Lee
  • Mirko Musa

Best Publications

  • Large-scale and very-large-scale motions in turbulent pipe flow

    M. Guala;S. E. Hommema;S. E. Hommema;Ronald Adrian

  • Natural snowfall reveals large-scale flow structures in the wake of a 2.5-MW wind turbine

    Jiarong Hong;Jiarong Hong;Mostafa Toloui;Mostafa Toloui;Leonardo P. Chamorro;Michele Guala

  • Interactions within the turbulent boundary layer at high Reynolds number

    M. Guala;M. Metzger;B. J. McKeon

  • 3D scanning particle tracking velocimetry

    Klaus Hoyer;Markus Holzner;Beat Lüthi;Michele Guala

  • Effects of a three-dimensional hill on the wake characteristics of a model wind turbine

    Xiaolei Yang;Kevin B. Howard;Michele Guala;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • On the evolution of turbulent scales in the wake of a wind turbine model

    L. P. Chamorro;M. Guala;R. E.A. Arndt;F. Sotiropoulos

  • On the statistics of wind turbine wake meandering: An experimental investigation

    Kevin B. Howard;Arvind Singh;Arvind Singh;Fotis Sotiropoulos;Michele Guala

  • Wake model for horizontal-axis wind and hydrokinetic turbines in yawed conditions

    Bingzheng Dou;Bingzheng Dou;Michele Guala;Liping Lei;Pan Zeng

  • Micrometeorological and morphological observations of surface hoar dynamics on a mountain snow cover

    F. Stössel;M. Guala;C. Fierz;C. Manes

  • Wake meandering statistics of a model wind turbine: Insights gained by large eddy simulations

    Daniel Foti;Xiaolei Yang;Michele Guala;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Snowflakes in the atmospheric surface layer: observation of particle-turbulence dynamics

    Andras Nemes;Teja Dasari;Jiarong Hong;Michele Guala

  • On the evolution of material lines and vorticity in homogeneous turbulence

    Michele Guala;Beat Lüthi;Alexander Liberzon;Arkady Tsinober

  • Turbulence in dilute polymer solutions

    A. Liberzon;M. Guala;B. Lüthi;W. Kinzelbach

  • CFD and PTV Steady Flow Investigation in an Anatomically Accurate Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

    Evangelos Boutsianis;Michele Guala;Ufuk Olgac;Simon Wildermuth

  • Aerodynamic Roughness Length of Fresh Snow

    Christof Gromke;Costantino Manes;Benjamin Walter;Michael Lehning

  • On shear-driven ventilation of snow

    Andrew Clifton;Costantino Manes;Jean Daniel Rüedi;Michele Guala

  • The spatial structure of the logarithmic region in very-high-Reynolds-number rough wall turbulent boundary layers

    Michael Heisel;Teja Dasari;Yun Liu;Jiarong Hong

  • Experimental investigation of the performance and wake effect of a small-scale wind turbine in a wind tunnel

    Bingzheng Dou;Bingzheng Dou;Michele Guala;Liping Lei;Pan Zeng

  • Wake characteristics of a TriFrame of axial-flow hydrokinetic turbines

    Saurabh Chawdhary;Craig Hill;Xiaolei Yang;Michele Guala

  • Generalized detection of a turbulent front generated by an oscillating grid

    Markus Holzner;Alexander Liberzon;Michele Guala;Arkady Tsinober

  • Experimental observations of upstream overdeepening

    Guido Zolezzi;Michele Guala;Donatella Termini;Giovanni Seminara

  • 4th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena

    Alexander Liberzon;Michele Guala;Wolfgang Kinzelbach;Beat Lüthi

Frequent Co-Authors

Fotis Sotiropoulos
Fotis Sotiropoulos Pennsylvania State University
Jiarong Hong
Jiarong Hong University of Minnesota
Leonardo P. Chamorro
Leonardo P. Chamorro University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beverley McKeon
Beverley McKeon California Institute of Technology
Arkady Tsinober
Arkady Tsinober Tel Aviv University
Filippo Coletti
Filippo Coletti University of Minnesota
Michael Lehning
Michael Lehning École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine
Ivan Marusic
Ivan Marusic University of Melbourne

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