Iafrati Publications

Journal publications

A. Iafrati,
Energy dissipation mechanisms in wave breaking processes: spilling and highly aerated plunging breaking events,
Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.116, C07024, 2011. Doi:10.1029/2011JC007038

A. Iafrati, A. Korobkin
Asymptotic estimates of hydrodynamic loads in the early stage of water entry of a circular disc,
Journal of Engineering and Mathematics, Vol.69, pp. 199-224, 2011. Doi: 10.1007/s10665-010-9411-y

A. Iafrati,
Numerical study of the effects of the breaking intensity on wave breaking flows,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.622, pp. 371-411, 2009. Doi: 10.1017/S0022112008005302

A. Iafrati, A. Korobkin
Hydrodynamic loads during early stage of flat plate impact onto water surface,
Physics of Fluids, Vol.20, 082104, 2008. Doi: 10.1063/1.2970776

Y. Semenov, A. Iafrati
On the nonlinear water entry problem of asymmetric wedges ,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.547, pp. 231-256, 2006. Doi: 10.1017/S0022112005007329

A. Korobkin, A. Iafrati
Numerical study of jet flow generated by impact on weakly compressible liquid,
Physics of Fluids, Vol.18, 032108, 2006. Doi: 10.1063/1.2182003

A. Korobkin, A. Iafrati
Hydrodynamic loads during initial stage of floating body impact,
Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol.21, pp. 413-427, 2005. Doi: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2005.08.002

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
Free surface fluctuations behind microbreakers: space--time behaviour and subsurface flow field,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.529, pp. 311-347, 2005. Doi: 10.1017/S0022112005003472

A. Iafrati, A. Korobkin
Starting flow generated by the impulsive start of a floating wedge,
Journal of Engineering and Mathematics, Vol.52, pp. 99-126, 2005. Doi: 10.1007/s10665-004-3686-9

A. Iafrati, A. Korobkin
Initial stage of flat plate impact onto liquid free surface,
Physics of Fluids, Vol.16, pp. 2214-2227, 2004. Doi: 10.1063/1.1714667

G. Riccardi, A. Iafrati
Water impact of an asymmetric floating wedge,
Journal of Engineering and Mathematics, Vol.49, pp. 19-39, 2004. Doi: 10.1023/B:ENGI.0000014885.89822.f5

D. Battistin, A. Iafrati
A numerical model for the jet flow generated by water impact,
Journal of Engineering and Mathematics, Vol.48, pp. 353-374, 2004. Doi: 10.1023/B:engi.0000018173.66342.9f

D. Battistin, A. Iafrati
Hydrodynamic loads during water entry of two- dimensional and axisymmetric bodies,
Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol.17, pp. 643-664, 2003. Doi: 10.1016/S0889-9746(03)00010-0

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
A domain decomposition approach to compute wave breaking,
International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol.41, pp. 419-445, 2003. Doi: 10.1002/ d.448

A. Iafrati, A. Di Mascio, E. F. Campana
A level set technique applied to unsteady free surface flows,
International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol.35, pp. 281-297, 2001.Doi: 10.1002/1097-0363(20010215)35:3<281::AID-FLD91>3.0.CO;2-V

A. Iafrati, A. Carcaterra, E. Ciappi, E. F. Campana
Hydroelastic analysis of a simple oscillator impacting the free surface,
Journal of Ship Research, Vol.44, pp. 278-289, 2000.

A. Carcaterra, E. Ciappi, A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
Shock spectral analysis of elastic systems impacting on the water surface,
Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.229, pp. 579-605, 2000. Doi: 10.1006/jsvi.1999.2517

E.F. Campana, A. Carcaterra, E. Ciappi, A. Iafrati
Some insight into slamming forces: compressible and incompressible phases,
Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng., 214 Part C, pp. 881-888, 2000. Doi: 10.1243/0954406001523867

R. Verzicco, A. Iafrati, G. Riccardi, M. Fatica
Analysis of the sound generated by the pairing of two axisymmetric co-rotating vortex-rings,
Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.200, pp. 347-358, 1997.

A. Iafrati, G. Riccardi
A numerical evaluation of viscous effects on vortex induced noise,
Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.196, pp. 129-146, 1996.

P. C. Kriesels, M. C. A. M. Peters, A. Hirschberg, P. J. Wijnands, A. Iafrati, G. Riccardi, R. Piva, J. C. Bruggeman
High amplitude vortex-induced pulsations in a gas transport system,
Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.184, pp. 343-368, 1995. Doi: 10.1006/jsvi.1995.0321

G. Riccardi, A. Iafrati, R. Piva
Vorticity shedding from a lentil-shaped body at large incidence in uniform flow,
Meccanica, Vol.29, pp.159-173, 1994.

Editor

Proceedings of the 19th Int. Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies 2004

Conference Proceedings

A. Iafrati, M. Onorato, A. Babanin
Analysis of wave breaking events generated as a result of a modulational instability, 29th ONR Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2012

A. Iafrati, A. Babanin, M. Onorato
Freak waves: beyond the Nonlinear Schrodinger breathers, Proceeding of the ECMWF Workshop on Ocean Waves, Reading (UK), June 2012

A. Iafrati, M. Onorato, A. Babanin
Kinematics of modulated wave trains in presence of wave breaking events, paper presented at EGU 2012 General Assembly, Wien, April, 2012

A. Iafrati, D. Durante
Detailed simulations of air-water interaction phenomena in ocean waves, paper presented at EGU 2012 General Assembly, Wien, April, 2012

A. Iafrati, La Gala F., M. Miozzi, G. Di Vita
Water impact experiments on a scaled IXV model,12th European Conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials & Environmental Testing, ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL, March, 2012

A. Iafrati
An isosurfacing algorithm for application to free surface flows, MASCOT 2011, 11th meeting on Applied Scientific Computing and Tools, Rome, October, 2011

A. Iafrati
Energy dissipation mechanisms in spilling and in highly aerated plunging breaking events, paper presented at EGU 2011 General Assembly, Wien, April, 2011

A. Iafrati
Energy dissipation mechanisms in wave breaking processes, 26th IWWWFB, Athens, Greece, April 2011

R. Broglia, A. Iafrati
Hydrodynamics of Planing Hulls in Asymmetric Conditions, 28th ONR Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, Pasadena, California, USA, September 2010

A. Iafrati
Air-water interaction in breaking wave events: quantitative estimates of drops and bubbles, 28th ONR Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, Pasadena, California, USA, September 2010

A. Iafrati
Solution of free boundary problems: water entry flows, SIMAI 2010 Conference, Cagliari, Italia, June 2010

A. Iafrati, R. Broglia
Comparisons between 2D+t potential flow models and 3D RANS for planing hulls hydrodynamics, 25th IWWWFB, Harbin, China, May 2010

A. Iafrati
Numerical investigation of air-water interaction in breaking waves, Workshop on air-sea interactions under tropical cyclones (hurricanes) , Providence, Rhode Island, USA, April 2010

A. Iafrati
Air entrainment and degassing process in breaking waves, 24th IWWWFB, Zelenogorsk, Russia, April 2009

A. Iafrati, R. Broglia
Hydrodynamics of planing hulls: a comparison between RANS and 2D+t potential flow models, 27th ONR Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, October 2008

A. Iafrati
Numerical study of breaking waves of different intensities, 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ICTAM08, Adelaide (AU), August 2008

A. Iafrati, A. Korobkin
Impulsive motion of floating bodies and generated loads, Keynote lecture, SuperFAST 2008 Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 2008

A. Iafrati, A. Korobkin
Second order solution of circular disc impact problem, 23rd IWWWFB, Juju, Korea, April 2008

A. Iafrati
Air-water interaction in breaking waves, International Conference on Violent Flows, VF-2007, Fukuoka, Japan, November 2007

A. Iafrati, T. Miloh, A.A. Korobkin
Oblique water entry of a block sliding along a sloping beach, International Conference on Violent Flows, VF-2007, Fukuoka, Japan, November 2007

A. Iafrati
Free surface flow generated by the water impact of a flat plate, 9th International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, August 2007

U. P. Bulgarelli, A. Iafrati, A.A. Korobkin
Hydrodynamic Loads during Water Entry of a Flat Plate, IUTAM Symposium on fluid-structure interaction in ocean engineering, Hamburg, Germany, July 2007

A. Iafrati, A.A. Korobkin
Numerical analysis of initial stage of plate impact on water surface, 22nd IWWWFB, Plitvice, Croatia, April 2007

A. Iafrati
Numerical analysis of the momentum transfer induced by breaking waves, 26th ONR Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, Rome, Italy, September 2006

K. J. Maki, A. Iafrati, S. Rhee, R. Beck, A. Troesch
The transom-stern modeled as a backward facing step, 26th ONR Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, Rome, Italy, September 2006

A. Iafrati, A.A. Korobkin
Breaking wave impact onto elastic wall, Hydroelas' 2006, 4th International Conference on Hydroelasticity in Marine Technology, Wuxi, China, September 2006

A. A. Korobkin, A. Iafrati
Hydrodynamic loads on flat plate entering water, 21st IWWWFB, Loughborough, United Kingdom, April 2006

A. Iafrati
Effect of the wave breaking mechanism on the momentum transfer, 21st IWWWFB, Loughborough, United Kingdom, April 2006

A. Iafrati, A. Korobkin
Self-similar solutions for porous/perforated wedge entry problem, 20th IWWWFB, Longyearbyen, Norway, June 2005

A. Iafrati, E.F. Campana
Air entrainment induced by vorticity--free-surface interaction, 6th International Conference on Hydrodynamics, Perth, Australia, November 2004

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana, U. P. Bulgarelli
Entrainment of air bubbles during strong vorticityfree-surface interaction, 21st International Congress Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ICTAM04, Warsaw, Poland, August 2004

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana, R. Gomez Ledesma, K. T. Kiger, J. H. Duncan
Air entrainment induced by the impact of a planar translating jet on a flat free surface, 25th Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, St. John's, Canada, August 2004

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
Spectral analysis of the free surface fluctuations behind microbreakers, 19th IWWWFB, Cortona, Italy, March 2004

A. A. Korobkin, A. Iafrati
Jetting by floating wedge impact, 19th IWWWFB, Cortona, Italy, March 2004

D. Battistin, A. Iafrati
A numerical model for hydrodynamics of planing surfaces, 7th International Conference Fast Sea Transportation, FAST, Ischia, Italy, October 2003

Y. A. Semenov, A. Iafrati
Asymmetric water entry of a wedge, 7th International Conference Fast Sea Transportation, FAST, Ischia, Italy, October 2003

A. Iafrati, D. Battistin
Hydrodynamics of water entry in presence of flow separation from chines, 8th International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, Busan, Korea, September 2003

G. Riccardi, A. Iafrati
Vortex shedding due to water impact of an asymmetric wedge, 2nd MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Boston, USA, June 2003

A. Iafrati, E.F. Campana
Surface ripples generated by spilling breakers, 2nd MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Boston, USA, June 2003

A. A. Korobkin, A. Iafrati
Early stage of floating plate impact, 18th IWWWFB, Le Croisic, France, April 2003

A. Iafrati, D. Battistin
Accurate description of the jet flow developing during water impact, 18th IWWWFB, Le Croisic, France, April 2003

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
Direct numerical simulation of surface tension dominated and non-dominated breaking waves, 24th ONR Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2002

A. A. Korobkin, A. Iafrati
On the similarity solution generated by the water impact of a floating wedge, International Summer Scientific School, High Speed Hydrodynamics Conference, Cheboksary, Russia, June 2002

D. Battistin, A. Iafrati
Hydrodynamics of planing hulls through a 2D+t approach, International Summer Scientific School, High Speed Hydrodynamics Conference, Cheboksary, Russia, June 2002

E.F. Campana, A. Iafrati
Surface tension effects on breaking waves, 17th IWWWFB, Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 2002

A. Iafrati, A.A. Korobkin
Hydrodynamic loads at the early stage of a floating wedge impact, 17th IWWWFB, Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 2002

D. Battistin, A. Iafrati
Impact of 2D and axisymmetric bodis of arbitrary section on the water surface, ECCOMAS Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Swansea, United Kingdom, September 2001

E.F. Campana, A. Iafrati
Unsteady free surface waves by domain decomposition approach, 16th IWWWFB, Hiroshima, Japan, April 2001

A. Iafrati, A.A. Korobkin
Starting flow generated by a floating wedge impact, 16th IWWWFB, Hiroshima, Japan, April 2001

A. Iafrati, A. Olivieri, F. Pistani, E.F. Campana
Numerical and experimental study of the wave breaking generated by a submerged hydrofoil, 23rd ONR Symposium Naval Hydrodynamics, Val de Reuil, France, September 2000

A. Iafrati
Hydrodynamics of asymmetric wedges impacting the free surface, ECCOMAS 2000, European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
A level-set technique applied to complex free surface flows, ASME 2000 Fluid Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Boston, USA, June 2000

A. Iafrati, A. Di Mascio, E. F. Campana
Computation of free surface wave breaking via the level-set approach, ONR Workshop on Free Surface and Bubbly flows, Pasadena, California, USA, March 2000

A. Iafrati, A. A. Korobkin
Liquid flow close to intersection point, 15th IWWWFB, Tel Aviv, Israel, February 2000

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
A level-set approach for unsteady free surface flows, 2nd Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NUTTs), Rome, Italy, August 1999

A. Iafrati, A. Carcaterra, E. Ciappi, E.F. Campana
Hydroelastic analysis of two dimensional slamming phenomena, 7th International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, Nantes, France, July 1999

A. Carcaterra, E. Ciappi, A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
Slamming of elastic structures on the water surface: a shock spectral approach, 9th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Brest, France, May 1999

A. Iafrati, A. Carcaterra, E. Ciappi, E. F. Campana
Impact of rigid and elastic systems over the water surface, 2nd International Conference on Hydroelasticity in Marine Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, December 1998

E. F. Campana, A. Carcaterra, E. Ciappi, A. Iafrati
Parametric analysis of slamming forces: compressible and incompressible phases, 3rd International Conference on Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, October 1998

A. Iafrati, E. F. Campana
Unsteady free surface flows around hydrofoils, BEM 20th Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, August 1998

A. Iafrati, E. De Bernardis
Effects of source convection on vortex sound, 3rd ECCOMAS Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Paris, France, September 1996

G. Riccardi, A. Iafrati, R. Piva
Vorticity shedding and wakes interaction past a lentil shaped body, 1st EUROMECH (European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 1991

G. Riccardi, A. Iafrati, R. Piva
Discrete models for the analysis of 2-D wakes in unsteady aerodynamics, 13th IMACS World Congress on Computation and applied Mathematics, Dublin, Ireland, July 1991

Proceedings of National Conferences

A. Ciucci, A. Iafrati
Numerical Analysis of Unsteady Flows and Acoustic Fields in Solid Rocket Motors, XIV Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, Naples, Italy, October 1997

M. Fatica, A. Iafrati, R. Verzicco, G. Riccardi
Formulazioni u-p e psi-omega per l'acustica di flussi assialsimmetrici: interazione di due anelli corotanti, XIII Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, Rome, Italy, September 1995

A. Visingardi, A. Iafrati, A. Pagano
Analysis of parallel BVI: experiences at CIRA, XIII Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, Roma, Italy, September 1995

A. Iafrati, G. Riccardi
Effetto della viscosità sul rumore aerodinamico, XIII Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, Rome, Italy, September 1995

G. Riccardi, A. Iafrati, E. De Bernardis
Rumore generato dallo scontro di due anelli vorticosi in campo libero, XII Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, Como, Italy, July 1993

A. Iafrati, G. Riccardi, R. Piva
Interazione di scie a valle di una lente, XI Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, Forlì, Italy, October 1991

Technical Reports

A. Iafrati
Deliverable 4.2:  INSEAN report describing the design of the crane and the catapult system for the guided ditching tests, SMAES Deliverable, CNR-INSEAN Report, 2012-EC-001, 2012

A. Iafrati, F. Carta, R. Zagaglia, C. Di Porto, M. Miozzi, M. Guerra, M. Palini, D. D'Orazio, M. Sale, L. D'Addeo 
IXV - Experimental measurements, CNR-INSEAN Report, 2011-TR-014, 2011.

A. Iafrati, F. Carta, R. Zagaglia, F. La Gala, M. Sellini, M. Adriani, A. Sabelli, F. Ortolani, M. Montanari, R. Basti, M. Palini 
IXV -  Model instrumentation and experimental setup, CNR-INSEAN Report, 2011-TR-013, 2011.

A. Iafrati, F. Carta, R. Zagaglia 
The IXV assembled model and the launch system, CNR-INSEAN Report, 2011-TR-012, 2011. 

A. Iafrati
Deliverable 4.1: planning and definitions of the experimental conditions for guided ditching tests, SMAES Deliverable, CNR-INSEAN Report, 2011-EC-006, 2011

A. Iafrati, F. Carta, R. Zagaglia, F. La Gala, E. Ciappi, M. Miozzi
Scale model tests: experimental setup and instrumented model, INSEAN Report, 2010-057-RT, 2011.

A. Iafrati
Studio della dinamica di ammaraggio del CIRA Unmanned Space Vehicle. Parte 4: Stima delle forze di impatto da prove sperimentali su modello in scala 1:4, Rapporto INSEAN 2005-27, 2005

A. Iafrati, E. Ciappi, L. Benedetti,
Studio della dinamica di ammaraggio del CIRA Unmanned Space Vehicle. Parte 2: Prove sperimentali su modello in scala 1:4, Rapporto INSEAN 2005-13, 2005

A. Iafrati
Studio della dinamica di ammaraggio del CIRA Unmanned Space Vehicle. Parte 1: Previsione Numerica, Rapporto INSEAN 2005-10, 2005