Matteo Postacchini

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive and critical review of work on the numerical modelling of swash zone processes between 2005 and 2015, comparing different numerical models against laboratory experiments of a dam-break-driven swash event.

TL;DR: The proposed Flooding Pedestrians' Evacuation Dynamics Simulator (FlooPEDS) combines flood hydrodynamics and individuals' evacuation (by modifying the Social Force Model) to guide the design of innovative resilience-increasing urban solutions in specific hazardous urban areas.

TL;DR: In this article, a robust hydrodynamic solver for the integration of the nonlinear shallow water equations (NSWE) and a rather flexible solver was proposed for the resolution of the Exner equation (used to evaluate the morphological evolution of the seabed).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a theoretical model which describes the momentum transfers between the particle and water phases of such events, and showed that these momentum transfers were controlled by a number of dimensionless parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed the Coastal Vulnerability index (CVI) which accounts for all relevant variables that characterize the coastal environment dealing with: (i) forcing actions (waves, tidal range, sea-level rise, etc.), (ii) morphological characteristics (geomorphology, foreshore slope, dune features, etc.).