"Water waves" PhD course @UNIVPM - 18-27 March 2025

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MATTEO POSTACCHINI

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Jan 19, 2025, 7:53:15 AM1/19/25

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Dear colleagues and friends,

I take the opportunity to announce the Short Course “Water waves for the nearshore dynamics”, which will be held by Prof. Maurizio Brocchini from 18 to 27 March 2025.

The course provides a description of the fundamental role of water waves in all nearshore dynamics. Focus is on wave modeling, achieved through those approaches that are at the roots of the most applied solvers in the field of coastal engineering. The interplay between fundamental physical phenomena, their mathematical description and related numerical solution will be analyzed. Specific dynamics of interest will be described through the models introduced.

Lectures will be offered both in presence at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy) and online.

Course schedule:

Tuesday 18^th: Introduction to nearshore dynamics. Formulation of the wave problem: linear waves
Wednesday 19^th: Depth-averaged models: nonlinearity, dispersiveness
Thursday 20^th: Numerical solutions of the Nonlinear Shallow Water Equations and Boussinesq equations
Tuesday 25^th: Applications of depth-averaged models
Wednesday 26^th: Wave-averaged models
Thursday 27^th: Solutions for selected nearshore dynamics

Detailed information is provided at this link: Nearshore_Waves_Brocchini_2024-2025.pdf

For further information, please contact Prof. Maurizio Brocchini at: m.bro...@univpm.it

Best regards.

Prof. Matteo Postacchini

Associate Professor of Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Via Brecce Bianche, 12 - 60131 Ancona

Tel: +39 071 220 4539

m.postacchini@staff.univpm.it

www.dicea.univpm.it

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MATTEO POSTACCHINI

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Jan 7, 2026, 9:01:03 AM (9 days ago) Jan 7

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Dear colleagues and friends,

I take the opportunity to announce the Short Course “Water waves for the nearshore dynamics”, which will be held by Prof. Maurizio Brocchini from 17 to 26 March 2026.

The course provides a description of the fundamental role of water waves in all nearshore dynamics. Focus is on wave modeling, achieved through those approaches that are at the roots of the most applied solvers in the field of coastal engineering. The interplay between fundamental physical phenomena, their mathematical description and related numerical solutions will be analyzed. Specific dynamics of interest will be described through the models introduced.

Lectures will be offered both in presence at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy) and online.

Course schedule:

Tuesday 17^th: Introduction to nearshore dynamics. Formulation of the wave problem: linear waves
Wednesday 18^th: Depth-averaged models: nonlinearity, dispersiveness
Thursday 19^th: Numerical solutions of the Nonlinear Shallow Water Equations and Boussinesq equations
Tuesday 24^th: Applications of depth-averaged models
Wednesday 25^th: Wave-averaged models
Thursday 26^th: Solutions for selected nearshore dynamics