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Alessandro Toffoli
Researcher at University of Melbourne
Publications - 123
Citations - 3268
Alessandro Toffoli is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rogue wave & Wind wave. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 117 publications receiving 2494 citations. Previous affiliations of Alessandro Toffoli include University of Plymouth & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Statistical properties of directional ocean waves: the role of the modulational instability in the formation of extreme events.
Miguel Onorato,Takuji Waseda,Alessandro Toffoli,Luigi Cavaleri,Odin Gramstad,Peter A. E. M. Janssen,Takeshi Kinoshita,Jaak Monbaliu,Nobuhito Mori,A. R. Osborne,M. Serio,Carl Trygve Stansberg,Hitoshi Tamura,Karsten Trulsen +13 more
TL;DR: Two independent, large scale experiments performed in two wave basins of different dimensions show that the probability of the formation of large amplitude waves strongly depends on the directional properties of the waves.
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Towards the identification of warning criteria: Analysis of a ship accident database
TL;DR: In this paper, an investigation was undertaken of ship accidents reported as being due to bad weather, where sea state related parameters (i.e. standard wave products) at the time of 270 accidents were analyzed and compared to known ship characteristics.
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Statistical properties of mechanically generated surface gravity waves: a laboratory experiment in a three-dimensional wave basin
Miguel Onorato,Luigi Cavaleri,Sébastien Fouques,Odin Gramstad,Peter A. E. M. Janssen,Jaak Monbaliu,A. R. Osborne,Csaba Pakozdi,M. Serio,Carl Trygve Stansberg,Alessandro Toffoli,Karsten Trulsen +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a wave basin experiment has been performed in the MARINTEK laboratories, in one of the largest existing three-dimensional wave tanks in the world, to investigate the effects of directional energy distribution on the statistical properties of surface gravity waves.
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Evolution of weakly nonlinear random directional waves: laboratory experiments and numerical simulations
Alessandro Toffoli,Odin Gramstad,Karsten Trulsen,Jaak Monbaliu,Elzbieta M. Bitner-Gregersen,Miguel Onorato +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, numerical simulations of nonlinear waves have been compared in order to assess the ability of numerical models to describe the evolution of weakly nonlinear wave and predict the probability of occurrence of extreme waves within a variety of random directional wave fields.
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Triggering Rogue Waves in Opposing Currents
TL;DR: It is shown that rogue waves can be triggered naturally when a stable wave train enters a region of an opposing current flow, and the maximum amplitude of the rogue wave depends on the ratio between the current velocity U(0) and the wave group velocity c(g).