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STEFANO LANZONI

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Structure

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale - ICEA

Address

VIA F. MARZOLO, 9 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498275426

E-mail

stefano.lanzoni@unipd.it

Stefano Lanzoni is Full professor of Fluid Mechanics at University of Padua. He received his PhD in Hydrodynamics in 1993 and in 1995 he was Visiting Researcher at Delft Hydraulics Laboratory (NL).

He is the Director of the Master Course in Mathematical Engineering and past-President of the Italian Group of Hydraulics. He led the PhD School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences of the University of Padua from 2008 to 2017 and was director of the Hydraulic Laboratory of the Department of Hydraulic, Coastal, Environmental and Geothecnical Engineering, University of Padua for 1998 to 2007. He served as elected President of the Italian Hydraulic Group (GII) form 2016 to 2021. He is Member of the Concordi Academy of Rovigo. He coordinated the 10th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics - RCEM, Padua, Italy, 2017 and co-coordinated the 15th International Symposium on RiverSedimentation, Florence, Italy, 2023.

His research interests concern fluvial and tidal morphodynamics, hydrodynamics; geophysical flows; bio fluid dynamics.

His international network includes the University of Auckland (New Zealand), the University of Minneapolis, University of California at Irvine and Boston University (USA). He has contributed to many invited lectures, workshops, and seminars over the years, e.g., a keynote speech at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Gilbert Club (UC Berkeley, USA, 2016). Since 2004, he has been Principal Investigator for numerous research projects for a total of 1.5 million of euros.

He was responsible of several Master Degree courses (Advanced Fluid Mechanics, 2016-present; Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2011-2015; Fluvial Hydraulics, 2012-2015; Pollutant dynamics, 2000-2011; Fluid Mechanics 2, 2003-2010; Hydraulic Measurements, 2000-2003; Hydraulic Infrastructures, 1998-1999) and Batchelor Degree courses (Hydraulics, 2016-2021; Fluid Mechanics 1, 2003-2015).

He supervised 18 PhD students, 7 Post-docs and 50 Master students.

He acts as a reviewer for several international journals (Science, Nature Geoscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of U.S. Sciences. Journal of Fluid Mechanics; Proceedings of Royal Society, Water Resources Research; Journal of Geophysical Research; Journal of Hydraulic Engineering; Journal of Hydraulic Research; Earth Surface Processes and Landforms; Advances in Water Resources, Catena) and institutions (ANVUR, PRIN ex 40%, FIRB, CIVR, National Science Foundation - USA, Technology Foundation STW - NL, Austrian Science Fund -A, European Research Council - EU, Agencie Nationale de la Rechearche - FR).

Notices

Further information on the CV, the publication record and the teaching activities is available at the web site http://www.image.unipd.it/s.lanzoni/

Office hours

  • Alla fine di ogni lezione, direttamente in aula

Teachings

Publications

He is author of more than 100 articles, among which 86 on peer reviewed journals.

h-index: 39 (source: ISI WOS); 41 (source: Scopus) Times cited: 4255 (ISI WOS); 4760 (SCOPUS).

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-2386

ResearcherID WOS: F-9852-2016.

(last update September, 12 2023)

Thesis proposals

THESIS PROPOSALS

T: theoterical
N: numerical
S: experimentala
I: analysis of: satellite images, field data, laboratory data

Fluvial Morpgodynamics

1. Morphodynamics of alluvial rivers:

- heterogeneity effects of the formation of the alluvial plane (T-N)
- mutual interactions between river evolution and floodplain stratigraphy (T-N)
- grain sorting effects on river morphodynamics (T-N)
- modelling of chute cutoffs (T)
- characterization of river planform (T-I)
- effects of suspended sediments (T-N)

2. Channel banks:
- simulation of bank collapse (N)
- bank effects of cross section equilibrium shape (T-N)

3. Debris flows:
- modelling of intense seidment transport in mountain streams (T-N)
- modelling of debris flow propagation (N-S)
- deposition and erosion laws (S-N)
- assessment of impact on defense structures (N)

Tidal Morphodynamics

1. Tidal meander:
- analysis (from satellite images) of lorphological changes within the Venice Lagoon (I)
- numerical simulation of tidal meander evolution (T-N)

2. Equilibrium of tidal channels:
- bed profiles analisi from bathimetrica data (I)
- assessment of equilibrium in tidal channels (T-N)

3. Morphology of tidal networks:
- effects of tidal channel confluences (I)
- analysis of tidal channel interaxis (I)
- flume experiments on tidal network formation and data analysis; vegetation effects (S)
- morphological changes in the Venice Lagoon (I)

4. erosion processes in salt marshes:
- bank eorsion data analysis (I)
- modelling of bank erosion (T-N)

5. Vegetation effects on sediment resuspension (N)

Estuarine and Delta Morphodynamics

1. Deltas
- Morphological analysis (I)
- Conceptual models of delta long term evolution (T)
- Short/medium term numerical modelling (N)
- Fluid mud nehaviour in estuaries (T-S)

2. Turbidity currents
- Flow field in turbidity currents (T)
- Planimetrical evolution of turbidity currents (T-N)

Pollutant dynamics in water bodies

1. Longitudinal dispersion
- Effects of cross-section shapes (T)
- Effects of meander bends (I)
- Effects of suspended load (T)

2. Salt instrusion in estuaries and deltas:
- numerical salt wedge modelling (T-N)
- experimental analisis of salt wedge intrusion (S)

3. Water quality in lakes

4. Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Detached Eddy Simulation (DES)

5. Machine learning
- Meander classification through neural networks (T-N)

6. Biofluidodinamica
- blood flux in stented areries (N)
- air flux in nasal cavities (N)