Dr Federica Buriani

Senior Physical Modelling Technician - COAST Lab

Qualifications

PhD in Applied Mathematics - Loughborough University (UK)

Mathematical Modelling of Wave-Structure Interactions with application to Wave Energy Conversion

MSc in Civil Engineering - Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) 

Experimental Investigation of a Ramp-Type Shoreline Wave Energy System

BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering - Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) 

Wave Run-Up and Back-Wash on a Beach Physical Model

Professional membership

INORE - International Network on Offshore Renewable Energy

European Symposium Coordinator - 2019 INORE Symposium

Journals

De Padova, D., Brocchini, M., Buriani, F., Corvaro, S., De Serio, F., Mossa, M.,Sibilla, S. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Pre-Breaking and Breaking Vorticity within a Plunging Breaker. March 2018. Water 10(4):387  DOI: 10.3390/w10040387

Michele, S., Buriani, F., Renzi, E., van Rooij, M., Jayawardhana, B., Vakis, A. I. Wave Energy Extraction by Flexible Floaters. November 2020. Energies 13(23) DOI: 10.3390/en13236167

Michele, S., Buriani, F., Renzi, E. Power extraction from floating elastic plates. EWTEC 2021 Special Issue in the International Journal of Marine Energy

Conference Papers

Buriani, F. and Müller, G. Reservoir type WEC for micro-tidal environments, EWTEC 2017

Buriani, F. and Renzi, E. Hydrodynamics of a Flexible Piezoelectric Wave Energy Harvester Moored on a Breakwater, EWTEC 2017

De Serio, F., Brocchini, M., Buriani, F., Corvaro, S., De Padova, D., Mossa, M., Sibilla, S. Coherent vortical structures in plunging breakers, XXXVI Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche 

Conferences organised

2019 INORE Symposium, Nocera Umbra, Italy

Other academic activities

Visiting Researcher at the Ocean Grazer Laboratory - University of Groningen (Netherlands)

Experiments on a flexible wave energy actuator (elastic membrane) and a raft-type floater blanket 

GII Researcher at the Coastal Engineering Laboratory (LIC) of DICATECh - Università Politecnica di Bari (Italy)

Characterisation of breaking waves evolution and nearshore turbulence dynamic

Visiting Academic at the Hydraulic Laboratory of the University of Southampton (UK)

Reservoir type WEC for micro-tidal environments

Additional information

Sky runner - Fell runner

2019 Umbrian Mountain Running Champion