Speaker: Francesco Fedele, PhD, Associate Prof, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Fedele’s research spans Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Probability and Random Fields, Computer Vision, Geotechnical and Structural Engineering. It is contributing significantly to the understanding and prediction of rogue waves and already had an impact on oceanic and naval engineering. His studies have appeared in Scientific Reports-Nature, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Fluid Mechanics. His presentation will include an overview of state-of-the-art research on rogue waves, their space-time ocean statistics, the physical mechanisms of rogue wave formation and the wave breaking onset which identifies the energy limiter phenomena that inhibits the unbounded growth of a rogue wave. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has implemented his stochastic model for spacetime extremes in their worldwide wave forecast model.
