CEE Faculty Profile

Research Interests

• Fluid Mechanics
• Wave Mechanics
• Probability and Statistics
• Computational Methods
• Inverse Problems

Education

• Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont, Vermont, USA 2004
• Laurea, Civil Engineering (magna cum laude), University Mediterranea, Italy 1998

Honors

1. Thank a Teacher certificate, 2012. Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. (In recognition for excellence in teaching and positive impact on students)
2. OMAE 2011 SSR Best Paper Award at the 30th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng,, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
3. Scholarship for participation to the workshop: “Analysis of Fluid Stability” International Centre for Mathematical Sciences 25 June, 3 July 2009, Edinburgh UK, (sponsored by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UK)
4. Young researcher scholarship for participation to the international conference : “Euler Equations : 250 years on” Aussois, France June 18-23, 2007, an event that celebrated the tercentenary of the birth of Leonhard Euler, and also the 250th anniversary of the publication of his Principes Généraux du Mouvement des Fluides (General Principles of the Motion of Fluids).
5. Scholarship for participation to the workshop: “Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and turbulence” University of Warwick England July 15-21, 2006, ( sponsored by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UK )
6. Scholarship for participation to an Isaac Newton Institute Workshop: “First-Passage and Extreme Value Problems in Random Processes” 26 June - 30 June 2006, ( Supported by the European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme - Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses )
7. Scholarship for participation to Séminaire Européen de Statistique, December 12-18, 2004, (Statistics of Spatio-Temporal Systems) Castle Höhenried, Bernried, near Munich, Germany (European Mathematical Society Summer School)
8. Scholarship Erasmus for international studies abroad ($10,000) January/December 1999

Articles

1. Bignardi S., Fedele F., Rix G., Santarato G. Yezzi A., 2012 Surface Waves in laterally heterogenous media, ASCE Journal of Mechanics (in press)
2. Fedele F., Dutykh D. 2012 Special solutions to a compact equation for deep-water waves, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) (in press)
3. Dutykh D., Fedele F., Chhay M., 2012 Geometric numerical schemes for the KdV equation, Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics (in press)
4. Benetazzo A., Fedele F., Carniel S., Ricchi A., Bucchignani E., Sclavo M., 2012 Wave climate of the Adriatic Sea: future scenario simulations, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, EGU journal , 12, 2065-2076
5. Fedele F., Dutykh D. 2012 Solitary wave interaction in a compact equation for deep-water gravity waves, JETP Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, 95(12): 703
6. Fedele F. 2012 Space-time extremes in short-crested storm seas, AMS Journal of Physical Oceanography, 42(9):1601-1615
7. Fedele F. 2012 Travelling waves in axisymmetric pipe flows, Fluid Dynamics Research 44, 045509 [Communicated by Prof. Edgar Knobloch, School of Physics, University of California at Berkeley]
8. Benetazzo A., Fedele F., Gallego G., Shih P.C., Yezzi A., 2012 Offshore Stereo Measurements of gravity Waves, Coastal Engineering 64:127-138
9. Fedele F., Dutykh D. 2011 Hamiltonian form and solitary waves of the spatial Dysthe equations, JETP Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics 94(12):921
10. Bignardi S., Fedele F., Rix G., Santarato G. Yezzi A., 2011 Geometric Seismic-Wave Inversion by the Boundary Element Method, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 102(2):802-811
11. Fedele F., Gallego G., Benetazzo A., Yezzi A., Sclavo M., Bastianini M. and L. Cavaleri , 2011 Euler Characteristics and Maxima of Oceanic Sea States” Special Issue('s) of the Journal Mathematics and Computers in Simulation on "Nonlinear Waves: Computation and Theory" 82(6):1102-1111
12. Gallego G., Yezzi A, Fedele F. and A. Benetazzo, 2011 A Variational Stereo Algorithm for the 3-D reconstruction of ocean waves, IEEE Transations on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 49(11):4445-4457
13. Fedele F. and Arena F. 2010 Long-term statistics and extreme waves of sea storms, AMS Journal of Physical Oceanography 40(5):1106-1117
14. Fedele F., Cherneva Z., Tayfun, A., and C. Guedes Soares 2010 NLS invariants and nonlinear wave statistics, Physics of Fluids 22, 036601
15. Fedele F., 2009 On the statistics of oceanic waves, Inter. Journal of Reliability and Safety 3(1-3):258-266
16. Fedele F., Tayfun, A., 2009 On nonlinear wave groups and crest statistics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 620, 221-239
17. Fedele F., 2008 Rogue wave in oceanic turbulence, PHYSICA D 237(14-17):2127-2131
18. Tayfun, A., Fedele F., 2007 Wave height distributions and nonlinear effects, Ocean Engineering 34,1631-1644 [The most cited article published since 2007 according to SciVerse Scopus] http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ocean-engineering/most-cited-articles/)
19. Fedele F., 2007 Explaining extreme waves by a theory of Stochastic wave groups, Computer and Structures 85, 291-303
20. Fedele F., 2006 On wave groups in a Gaussian Sea, Ocean Engineering 33(17-18):2225-2239
21. Fedele F and Hitt D. L., 2006. Transport, Growth and Stability of Disturbances in Weakly Rarefied Channel Flows, J. Comp. Theo. Nanoscience 3, 1-9
22. Fedele F. 2006 Extreme Events in nonlinear random seas. J. of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Eng. ASME 128, 11-16
23. Fedele F. and D. Hitt, 2005 Linear Stability of Slip Flows in Microchannels. Far East Journal Applied Mathematics 21(1):31-41
24. Fedele, F. 2005. Successive wave crests in Gaussian seas. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics 20(4):355-363
25. Fedele F. , Eppstein M. , Laible J.P.,Godavarty A. & Sevick-Muraca E.M. 2005 Fluorescence Photon migration by the Boundary Element Method. J. Computational Physics 210(1):109-132
26. Fedele F., J. Yang & Z. Chen 2005 Defect modes in 1D Photorefractive Lattices. Optics Letters 30(12):1506-1508
27. Fedele F., J. Yang & Z. Chen 2005 Properties of defect modes in light-induced photonic lattices. Studies in Applied Mathematics 115(2):279-301
28. Arena F., Fedele F. 2005 Non-linear space-time evolution of a high wave crest. Journal Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering ASME 127(1) 46-51
29. Fedele F., Hitt D., Prabhu R.D. 2005 Revisiting the stability of Pulsatile pipe flow. European J. of Mech. - B/Fluids 24(2):237-254
30. Fedele F., Arena, F. 2005 Weakly nonlinear Statistics of high Random waves. Physics of fluids 17,026601
31. Fedele F., Melissa Mckay, G. F. Pinder and Guarnaccia J. 2004 A single-degree of freedom Hermite Collocation for multi-phase flow and transport in porous media. Inter. journal Numerical methods in fluids 44,1337-1354
32. Eppstein M. , Fedele F., Laible J. P., Zhang C. , Godavarty A. & Sevick-Muraca E. M. 2003 A comparison of exact and approximate adjoint sensitivities in fluorescence tomography. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 22(10):1215-1222
33. Arena F. and Fedele F. 2003 Statistical Properties of Nonlinear Froude-Krylov Forces on Cylinders. Inter. Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (IJOPE) 13(2):105-111
34. Fedele F., Laible J. P. & Eppstein M. 2002 Coupled complex adjoint sensitivities for frequency-domain fluorescence tomography: theory and vectorized implementation. J. Computational Physics 187(2):597-619
35. Arena F. and Fedele F. 2002 A family of narrow-band non-linear stochastic processes for the mechanics of sea waves . European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids 21(1):125-137

Proceedings

1. Fedele F., Muhanna R. and Naijia Xiao, 2012 Interval-based Inverse Problems with Uncertainties. 16th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID 2012, Brussels, Belgium, July 11-13
2. Fedele F., Benetazzo A., Gallego G., Shih P.C., Yezzi A., and Barbariol F. 2012 Wave statistics and space-time extremes via stereo Imaging. The 22nd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE 2012), Rhodes Greece, June 17−22
3. Gallego G., Yezzi A., Fedele F., Benetazzo A. 2012 Space-time Reconstruction of Oceanic Sea States via Variational Stereo Methods The 22nd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE 2012), Rhodes Greece, June 17−22
4. Bignardi S., Fedele F., Rix G., Santarato G. and Yezzi A., 2012 Two-dimensional seismic wave modeling and inversion by the boundary element method, GeoCongress 2012: State of the Art and Practice in Geotechnical Engineering, Oakland, California March 25-29, 2012.
5. Gallego G., Yezzi A, Fedele F. and A. Benetazzo, 2011 Coherent space-time stereoscopic reconstruction of sea states 12th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting and 3rd Coastal Hazards Symposium Oct 30-Nov 4, Kohala Coast, Hawai’s’s Big Island
6. Gallego G., Yezzi A., and Fedele F. 2011, Weak Statistical Constraints for Variational Stereo Imaging of Oceanic Waves, Third International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), Dead See Region, Israel, May 29 – June 2, 2011
7. Gallego G., Yezzi A. and Fedele F., 2011 A Variational Wave Acquisition Stereo System for the 3-D Reconstruction of Oceanic Sea States 30th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, OMAE2011-49061
8. Fedele F., Benetazzo A., Forristall G.Z., Space-time waves and spectra in the Northern Adriatic Sea via a Wave Acquisition Stereo System 30th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, OMAE2011-49924
9. Fedele F., Arena F., Tayfun M.A., Space-time extremes and storm seas 30th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, OMAE2011-49048 [SSR Best Paper Award]
10. Ardhuin F., Viroulet S., Filipot J.-F., Benetazzo A., Dulov V., Fedele F. 2010 Measurement of directional wave spectra using a Wave Acquisition Stereo System: a pilot experiment. Ecological safety of coastal and shelf zones and comprehensive use of shelf resources. Proceedings “To the 30th anniversary of the oceanographic platform in Katsiveli” / Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Institute of Geological Sciences, Odessa Branch of Institute of Biology of Southern Seas. Sevastopol, Ukraine, 21, 252-259
11. Cook D., Fedele F., and A. Yezzi 2010 ‘Detection of Spherical Inclusions Using Active Surfaces. International Conference Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Synthetic Aperture Radar, Sept. 13-14, Lerici, Italy
12. Fedele F., Cherneva Z., Tayfun, A., and C. Guedes Soares 2010 Nonlinear wave statistics. 29th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Shanghai, China, OMAE2010-20188
13. Fedele F., Arena F., and M.A. Tayfun 2010 Extreme waves of sea storms. 29th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Shanghai, China, OMAE2010-20187
14. Fedele F., Sampath P., Gallego G., Yezzi A., Benetazzo A., Forristall G.Z., Tayfun M.A., Cavaleri L., Sclavo M., Bastianini M. 2009 Beyond Waves & Spectra: Euler Characteristics of Oceanic Sea States. 28th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Honolulu, Hawaii, OMAE2009-79598
15. Fedele F. and Arena F. 2009 The Equivalent Power Storm Model for Long-Term Predictions of Extreme Wave Events 28th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Honolulu, Hawaii, OMAE2009-79597
16. Fedele F., Gallego G., Benetazzo A., Yezzi A., Tayfun M.A. 2008 Euler Characteristics & maxima of oceanic sea states. 31° Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Perugia Italy.
17. Fedele, F., Gallego, G., Benetazzo, A., Yezzi A. “Wave Statistics and Spectra via a Variational Wave Acquisition Stereo System” 27th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng., Lisbon, Portugal, OMAE2008-57160
18. Tayfun M.A, Fedele, F. 2008 Envelope and Phase Statistics of Large Waves. 27th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng. Lisbon, Portugal, OMAE2008-57129
19. Fedele F. Rogue waves in oceanic turbulence. 27th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng. Lisbon, Portugal, OMAE2008-57027
20. Tayfun, A., Fedele F. 2007 Expected shape of extreme waves in sea storms. 26th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng., San Diego , USA, OMAE2007-29073
21. Fedele F. and Tayfun A. 2006 Explaining freak waves by a stochastic theory of wave groups 25th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Hamburg, Germany, 4-9 June 2006 OMAE2006-92527
22. Tayfun A. and Fedele F. 2006 Wave-Height distributions and nonlinear effects. 25th ASME Int. Conf. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engng, Hamburg, Germany, 4-9 June 2006 OMAE2006-92019
23. Fedele F., Arena F. 2004 Successive wave crests in Gaussian seas. Proceedings of XIV International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE) Toulon, FRANCE
24. Fedele F. 2004 The occurrence of Extreme crests and the nonlinear wave-wave interaction in random seas PROCEEDINGS of XIV International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE) Toulon, FRANCE
25. Fedele F., Arena F. 2003 On the statistics of high non-linear random waves. Proceedings of XIII International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE) Honolulu, Hawaii USA 25-30 May 2003
26. Arena F., Fedele F. 2003 Non-linear space-time evolution of a high wave crest. Proceedings of XXII Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE) Cancun, Mexico 8-13 june 2003
27. Fedele F., Arena F. 2002 Statistical properties of non-linear forces of sea waves on a vertical wall. 28th Convegno Nazionale idraulica e costruzioni idrauliche Potenza Italy September 16-19, 2002
28. Mckay M., Pinder G. F., Fedele F., Guarnaccia J., Wu L. 2002 Multiphase groundwater flow and transport using a new localized collocation method (LOCOM) XIV International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources June 23-28, 2002 Delft University of Technology The Netherlands
29. Fedele F., Laible J. P., Pinder G. F. 2002 Localized-Adjoint-Finite-Element-Method for Sub-Grid Stabilization of Convection-dominated Transport on a Triangular Mesh. XIV International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources June 23-28, 2002 Delft University of Technology The Netherlands
30. Arena F., Fedele F. 2002 Non-linear wind-generated waves forces on a vertical wall. 15th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conferences June 2-5 2002 Columbia University New York NY
31. Arena F., Fedele F. 2001 Statistical properties of non-linear Froude_Krylov forces on cylinders. ISOPE 2001 Stavanger Norway Vol. III:264-271
32. Arena F., Fedele F. 2000 Non-linear effects for wind-generated waves. XXVII Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Genoa Italy, vol. IV:21-28 (In Italian)
33. Fedele F., Tucciarelli T. 2000 An efficient double order solution of the groundwater contaminant transport problem. XIII Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, Calgary, Canada, Vol. 1:417-422.

Patents

Eppstein, M.J., Laible, J.P, and Fedele, F. New Boundary Element Method for Coupled Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Specified Application to Fluorescence Tomography, Provisional Patent Application Filed, October, 8, 2002

Presentations

1. S. Bignardi, F. Fedele, A. Yezzi, G. Rix, and G. Santarato 2012 Two-dimensional Seismic Wave Modeling and Inversion by the Boundary Element Method, Geo-Congress 2012, Oakland, CA March 25-29
2. F. Fedele, A. Benetazzo, G. Gallego, P.-C. Shih, A. Yezzi and F. Barbariol 2012 Wave statistics and space-time extremes via stereo imaging, ISOPE 2012, the 22nd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes (Rodos), Greece, June 17−22, ISOPE2012-TPC-0945
3. Fedele, F.(2011). “From oceanic spectra, wave dispersion and energy cascade to solitons in Navier-Stokes equations”, University of Vermont, dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, April 15, 2011 (invited speaker)
4. Carnie,l. S., Fedele, F., Benetazzo,A., Sclavo, M., Ricchi, A. and Bucchignani, E. (2011). Wave extremes in the climate change perspective: the Adriatic Sea case study 13th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms EGU Topical Conference Series, Savona, Italy, September 7-9, 2011 (Plinius Conference Abstracts Vol. 13, Plinius13-80)
5. Gallego, G., Yezzi, A., Fedele, F., Benetazzo , A. and Cavaleri, L. (2011). A Variational Wave Acquisition Stereo System for the 3-D reconstruction of ocean waves 18th Waves in Shallow Environments (WISE) 2011 meeting, May 22-26, 2011, Qingdao, China
6. Fedele, F. (2011). NLS invariants and nonlinear statistics The Seventh IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, Athens Georgia USA (abstract)
7. Fedele F. (2009). Rogue waves in oceanic turbulence The Sixth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, Athens Georgia USA (abstract)
8. Fedele, F., Gallego, G., Benetazzo, A, Yezzi, A. and Tayfun, M.A.( 2009). Euler Characteristics & Maxima of Oceanic Sea States. Proceedings of the Workshop ROGUE WAVES 2008, Brest France
9. Fedele, F. (2008). Rogue waves in oceanic turbulence. Ocean Science meeting Orlando Florida
10. Fedele, F. (2008). “Rogue waves in oceanic turbulence and solitons in axisymmetric turbulent flow: an extreme view”, 32nd SIAM Southeastern-Atlantic Section Conference (SIAM-SEAS 2008) Special Session: Turbulence; March 14-15, 2008, University of Central Florida, Orlando (Invited Speaker)
11. Fedele, F. and Hitt, D. L. (2006). Linear Stability and Growth of Disturbances in Weakly-Rarefied Pulsatile Flows”, 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19-21, 2006, Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
12. Fedele, F. and Hitt, D.L. (2006). Linear Stability and Growth of Disturbances in Weakly-Rarefied Pulsatile Flows. 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19-21, 2006, Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
13. Fedele, F. (2006). “Freak waves explained by stochastic wave groups”. Contributed talk to Workshop:”Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and turbulence”, University of Warwick England July 15-21, 2006, ( sponsored by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UK )
14. Fedele, F. (2006). “On nonlinear stochastic wave groups”, contributed talk to Isaac Newton Institute Workshop: “First-Passage and Extreme Value Problems in Random Processes” 26 June - 30 June 2006, ( Supported by the European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme - Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses )
15. Fedele, F. (2005). A New Computational Paradigm for the Statistics of Extreme Events in Nonlinear Random Seas”, Third M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics June 14 - 17, 2005 at MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
16. Fedele, F. and Hitt, D.L. (2005). Transport, Growth and Stability of Disturbances in Weakly Rarefied Channel Flows. Third M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics June 14 - 17, 2005 at MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
17. Fedele, F. and Hitt, D.L. (2005). On the Linear Stability of Weakly Rarefied Flows in Microchannels”, 35th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit June 6 -9, 2005 Toronto, CA
18. Fedele, F. (2004). “Wave Groups and extreme events in a Gaussian sea”, University of Twente, dept. of Applied Mathematics, December 20, 2004 (invited speaker)
19. Fedele F. (2004). ”Successive wave crests in a Gaussian sea”, Séminaire Européen de Statistique 2004 (Statistics of Spatio-Temporal Systems) December 12th-18th, 2004 Castle Höhenried, Bernried, near Munich, Germany (European Mathematical Society Summer School)
20. Fedele, F., Laible, J. P. and Eppstein, M. (2004). A boundary element solution of the coupled fluorescence diffusion equations OSA Advances In Optical Imaging and Photon Migration (AOIPM) April 14-17, 2004 Miami Beach FL (USA)
21. Fedele, F. (2003). Tail probabilities of Successive Wave Crest Heights in Gaussian seas. Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on modeling and simulation MCMS' 03 Reggio Calabria ITALY June 25-27, 2003
22. Fedele, F., Hitt, D.L. and Prahu, R.D. (2003). A complete set of eigenfunctions for the stability of pulsatile pipe flow Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on modeling and simulation MCMS' 03 Reggio Calabria ITALY June 25-27, 2003
23. Laible, J.P., Fedele, F. and Eppstein, M. (2003). A boundary element approach to optical and fluorescence tomography. BIOS 2003 25–31 January 2003, San Jose, California, USA (SPIE 4955-33) (abstract)
24. Fedele, F. and Hitt, D.L. (2003). On the statistics of Successive Wave Crest Heights in Gaussian seas. Division of Fluid Dynamics 56th Annual Meeting, East Rutherford, New Jersey (abstract)
25. Fedele, F., Laible, J. P. and Eppstein, M. (2002). Generalized Adjoint Sensitivities of the Coupled Frequency Domain Fluorescence Diffusion Equations, OSA Advances In Optical Imaging and Photon Migration (AOIPM) April 7-10, 2002 Miami Beach FL (USA) pp. 371-373
26. Arena, F. and Fedele, F. (2002). Intensity and Duration of Sea Storms off the California Coast. Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2002 ASCE San Diego (CA) February 24-27, 2002
27. Fedele, F., Laible, J. P. and Pinder, G. F. (2002). An optimal Petrov-Galerkin method for convection-dominated transport equations. MAXIMA 2002, IX Mexican American Exchange in Mathematics and its Applications, Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico (abstract)