Irene SIMONETTI

Ruolo attuale:: Ricercatore Legge 240/10 a tempo determinato
SSD:: CEAR-01/B - Costruzioni idrauliche e marittime e idrologia
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale (DICEA)

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Irene SIMONETTI

Orario di ricevimento (aggiornato al 25/11/2023)

Il ricevimento studenti si svolge il martedì in orario 10.00-12.00, previa richiesta tramite e-mail.

Irene SIMONETTI

Biografia

Irene Simonetti è ricercatrice RTD presso il Dip.to di Ing. Civile e Ambientale.

Nel 2016 ha conseguito il titolo di dottore di ricerca in "Civil and Environmental Engineering" programma internazionale congiunto con TU Braunschweig (Germania), con tesi di dottorato dal titolo "Optimization of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Convertes – A numerical study".

Ha conseguito la Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria per la Tutela dell'Ambiente e del Territorio nel 2012.

Irene SIMONETTI

Curriculum

dal 2022: ricercatrice (RTD, art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10), settore scientifico disciplinare ICAR-02, presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale di Firenze.

Incarichi precedenti:

2016-2021: assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale Università degli Studi di Firenze, settore scientifico disciplinare ICAR-02

Titoli di Studio

2016: Dottorato di ricerca in Civil and Environmental Engineering (UNIFI, UNIPI, UNIPG, TU Braunschweig)

2012: Laurea magistrale in ingegneria per la tutela dell’ambiente e del territorio

2009: Laurea triennale in ingegneria per la tutela dell’ambiente e del territorio

Irene SIMONETTI

Interessi

Idrodinamica offshore e delle zone costiere.

Sviluppo di strutture e dispositivi marittimi green per l’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici e per lo sfruttamento delle energie rinnovabili marine.

Simulazione numerica dell’interazione onda-struttura con tecniche di fluidodinamica computazionale.

Irene SIMONETTI

Pubblicazioni

Legenda

Contributo su rivista |

Articolo su libro |

Libro |

Contributo in atti di convegno (proceeding) |

Brevetto |

Curatela | Altro

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Tesi di Dottorato

Simonetti, Irene; Lubello, Claudio; Cappietti, Lorenzo (2024). On the use of hydrodynamic modelling and random forest classifiers for the prediction of hypoxia in coastal lagoons. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 951, pp. 0-14, ISSN:0048-9697 DOI

Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo (2024). Projected Trends in Wave Energy Potentials along the European Coasts and Implications for Wave Energy Exploitation (1976–2100). JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, vol. 12, pp. 0-24, ISSN:2077-1312 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Raghavan, Vaibhav; Simonetti, Irene; Metrikine, Andrei V.; Lavidas, George; Cappietti, Lorenzo (2024). A new numerical modelling framework for fixed oscillating water column wave energy conversion device combining BEM and CFD methods: Validation with experiments. OCEAN ENGINEERING, vol. 301, pp. 0-11, ISSN:0029-8018 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Irene Simonetti; Lorenzo Cappietti (2023). Development of a hybrid Oscillating Water Column-Overtopping device: Preliminary results of laboratory tests at scale 1:25 on the O2WC WEC. In: 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbon, Portugal, 8-10 Novembre 2022, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 0-8, ISBN:9781003360773 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Irene Simonetti; Lorenzo Cappietti (2023). Mediterranean coastal wave-climate long-term trend in climate change scenarios and effects on the optimal sizing of OWC wave energy converters. COASTAL ENGINEERING, vol. 179, pp. 0-17, ISSN:0378-3839 DOI

Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo (2023). Effects of projected wave climate changes on the sizing and performance of OWCs: a focus on the Mediterranean and Atlantic European coastal waters. In: European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Bilbao, Spain, Sept. 2023, Editor: Jesús María Blanco Ilzarbe (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/Universidad del País Vasco), vol. 15, pp. 0-9. DOI

Crespo, Alejandro; Tagliafierro, Bonaventura; Martínez-Estévez, Iván; Domínguez, José M.; DeCastro, Maite; Gómez-Gesteira, Moncho; Altomare, Corrado; Brito, Moises; Bernardo, Francisco; Ferreira, Rui M.; Capasso, Salvatore; Viccione, Giacomo; Quartier, Nicolas; Stratigaki, Vasiliki; Troch, Peter; Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo; Göteman, Malin; Engström, Jens; Clemente, Daniel; Rosa-Santos, Paulo; Taveira-Pinto, Francisco; Bacelli, Giorgio; Coe, Ryan; Fourtakas, Georgios; Rogers, Benedict; Stasnby, Peter (2023). On the state-of-the-art of CFD simulations for wave energy converters within the open-source numerical framework of DualSPHysics. In: European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Bilbao, Spain, Sept. 2023, Editor: Jesús María Blanco Ilzarbe (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/Universidad del País Vasco), vol. 15, pp. 0-9. DOI

Raghavan, Vaibhav; Simonetti, Irene; Lavidas, George; Cappietti, Lorenzo (2023). Numerical modelling of a box-type and bottom-detached oscillating water column wave energy conversion device: a comparison with experimental data and between BEM and CFD numerical modelling. In: European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Bilbao, Spain, Sept. 2023, Editor: Jesús María Blanco Ilzarbe (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/Universidad del País Vasco), vol. 15, pp. 0-9. DOI

Ciappi L.; Simonetti I.; Bianchini A.; Cappietti L.; Manfrida G. (2022). Application of integrated wave-to-wire modelling for the preliminary design of oscillating water column systems for installations in moderate wave climates. RENEWABLE ENERGY, vol. 194, pp. 232-248, ISSN:0960-1481 DOI

Lorenzo Ciappi, Lapo Cheli, Irene Simonetti, Alessandro Bianchini, Lorenzo Talluri, Lorenzo Cappietti, Giampaolo Manfrida (2022). Wave-to-wire models of Wells and impulse turbines for oscillating water column wave energy converters operating in the Mediterranean Sea. ENERGY, vol. 238, pp. 1-19, ISSN:0360-5442 DOI

Simonetti I.; Cappietti L. (2022). Influence of Inlets Morphology and Forcing Mechanisms on Water Exchange between Coastal Basins and the Sea: A Hindcast Study for a Mediterranean Lagoon. JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, vol. 10, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2077-1312 DOI

Irene Simonetti, Andrea Esposito, Lorenzo Cappietti (2022). Experimental Proof-of-Concept of a Hybrid Wave Energy Converter Based on Oscillating Water Column and Overtopping Mechanisms. ENERGIES, vol. 15(21), pp. 0-20, ISSN:1996-1073 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Lorenzo Ciappi; Irene Simonetti; Alessandro Bianchini; Lorenzo Cappietti; Giampaolo Manfrida (2021). Application of wave-to-wire modelling to optimise oscillating water column wave energy converters for small installations in the Mediterranean Sea. In: Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 10-15 October 2021, Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), pp. 0-25.

Simonetti I.; Cappietti L. (2021). Hydraulic performance of oscillating water column structures as anti-reflection devices to reduce harbour agitation. COASTAL ENGINEERING, vol. 165, pp. 0-17, ISSN:0378-3839 DOI

Stuart Walker; Lorenzo Cappietti; Irene Simonetti; Andrea Esposito (2020). Laboratory scale tests of a floating tidal turbine. In: 4th Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 October 2020, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 582-590, ISBN:978-0-367-68131-9 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ciappi, Lorenzo; Cheli, Lapo; Simonetti, Irene; Bianchini, Alessandro; Manfrida, Giampaolo; Cappietti, Lorenzo (2020). Wave-to-Wire Model of an Oscillating-Water-Column Wave Energy Converter and Its Application to Mediterranean Energy Hot-Spots. ENERGIES, vol. 13, pp. 5582-5609, ISSN:1996-1073 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Kisacik D.; Stratigaki V.; Wu M.; Cappietti L.; Simonetti I.; Troch P.; Crespo A.; Altomare C.; Dominguez J.; Hall M.; Gomez-Gesteira M.; Canelas R.B.; Stansby P. (2020). Efficiency and survivability of a floating oscillating water column wave energy converter moored to the seabed: An overview of the EsflOWC MaRINET2 Database. WATER, vol. 12, pp. 1-21, ISSN:2073-4441 DOI

Cappietti L.; Simonetti I. (2020). Wave-induced water-mass flow across shore-defense detached and emergent rubble-mound breakwaters. JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH, vol. 95, pp. 197-201, ISSN:0749-0208 DOI

Lorenzo Cappietti, Stefano Solari, Irene Simonetti, Ilaria Crema (2020). Numerical modelling of Orbetello lagoon circulation in the XVIII century. In: International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea, IEEE, pp. 172-178, ISBN:978-929900842-3 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Lorenzo Ciappi, Lapo Cheli, Irene Simonetti, Alessandro Bianchini, Lorenzo Talluri, Lorenzo Cappietti, Giampaolo Manfrida (2020). Analytical Models of Oscillating Water Column Systems Operating with Air Turbines in the Mediterranean Sea. In: Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), Cologne, Germany, 1-5 September 2020, SDEWES, pp. 1-20.

Cappietti Lorenzo, Simonetti Irene, Crema Ilaria (2019). Laboratory experiments on the performance of an OWC-WEC: fixed condition versus floating platform-embodied condition. In: 13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Naples, Italy, 1-6 Sept. 2019, Prof AbuBakr S. Bahaj, pp. 1-7.

Irene Simonetti; Lorenzo Cappietti (2019). The impact of modelling air compressibility in the selection of optimal OWC design parameters in site specific wave conditions. In: International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Glasgow, UK, June 9-14, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), pp. 1-10, ISBN:978-079185889-9 DOI

Lorenzo Cappietti, Lorenzo Ciappi, Andrea Esposito, Daniele Fiaschi, Giampaolo Manfrida, Bartłomiej Melka, Marcin Nowak, Irene Simonetti, Michal Stebel, Jacek Smolka, Lorenzo Talluri (2019). Experimental investigation of velocity-augmented barriers for tidal stream turbines. In: Conference on Substainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systerm, SDEWES2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1-6 Oct. 2019, SDEWES2019, pp. 1-14.

Lorenzo Cappietti; Irene Simonetti; Ilaria Crema (2019). Concept design of a Very Large Floating Structure and Laboratory Scale Physical Modelling. In: 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2019, Glasgow, SCOTLAND, 09-14 June 2019, ASME, pp. 1-7. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Lorenzo Cappietti; Ilaria Crema; Irene Simonetti (2019). Assessing water exchange between sea and the Orbetello lagoon (Italy) by field measurements and numerical simulations. In: International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea, Bari, Italy, 2018, IEEE, pp. 55-59, ISBN:978-1-5386-7643-1

Stuart Walker, Lorenzo Cappietti, Irene Simonetti (2019). A laboratory study on the effects of waves on the performance and structural deflection of a tidal stream turbine. In: 13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Naples, Italy, 1-6 Sept. 2019, Prof AbuBakr S. Bahaj, pp. 1-8.

Lorenzo Cappietti; Irene Simonetti; Valeri Penchev; Philip Penchev (2019). Laboratory tests on an original wave energy converter combining oscillating water column and overtopping devices. In: Renewable Energies Offshore - RENEW 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, 8-10 October 2018, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 791-796, ISBN:978-1-138-58535-5 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Irene Simonetti; Lorenzo Cappietti (2018). Evaluation of air compressibility effects on the performance of fixed OWC wave energy converters using CFD modelling. RENEWABLE ENERGY, vol. 119, pp. 741-753, ISSN:0960-1481 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Crespo AJC, Domínguez JM, Gómez-Gesteira M, Hall M, Altomare C, Wu M, Verbrugghe T, Stratigaki V, Troch P, Kisacik D, Simonetti I, Cappietti L, Canelas RB, Ferreira RML, Stansby P (2018). Survivability of floating moored offshore structures studied with DualSPHysics. In: 13th SPHERIC International Workshop, Galway, Ireland, 2018, SPHERIC International Workshop, pp. 0-6.

Simonetti, I.*; Cappietti, L.; Oumeraci, H. (2018). An empirical model as a supporting tool to optimize the main design parameters of a stationary oscillating water column wave energy converter. APPLIED ENERGY, vol. 231, pp. 1205-1215, ISSN:0306-2619 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Lorenzo Cappietti; Irene Simonetti (2018). On the effectiveness of Oscillating Water Column devices in reducing the agitation in front of vertical walls harbour structures. In: International Conference on Coastal Engineering - ICCE 2018, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), pp. 0-1.

Lorenzo Cappietti; Irene SImonetti; Andrea Esposito; Maximilian Streicher; Andreas Kortenhaus (2018). Esperimenti a grande scala su carichi da overtopping d'onda su pareti verticali: spessore e velocità della lama tracimante. In: Congresso Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, XXXVI Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, pp. 0-3, ISBN:9788894379907

Irene Simonetti; Lorenzo Cappietti (2018). Quantificazione delle perdite di energia utile in dispositivi WEC-OWC. In: Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche IDRA 2018, Ancona, 2018, Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, pp. 0-4, ISBN:9788894379907

Cappietti, Lorenzo; Simonetti, Irene; Esposito, Andrea; Streicher, Maximilian; Kortenhaus, Andreas; Scheres, Babette; Schuettrumpf, Holger; Hirt, Matthias; Hofland, Bas; Chen, Xuexue (2018). Large-scale experiments of wave-overtopping loads on walls: Layer thicknesses and velocities. In: ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2018, Madrid, Spain, 2018, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), vol. 7A, pp. 0-6, ISBN:9780791851265 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo (2017). Energy Losses in Oscillating Water Column Devices: A CFD study. In: 8th International Short Course and Conference on Applied Coastal Research (SCACR), Santander, Spain, 3-6 ottobre 2017, Proceedings of the 8th International Short Course and Conference on Applied Coastal Research (SCACR), pp. 0-0.

Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo; Elsafti, H.; Oumeraci, H. (2017). Optimization of the geometry and the turbine induced damping for fixed detached and asymmetric OWC devices: A numerical study. ENERGY, vol. 139, pp. 1197-1209, ISSN:0360-5442 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Irene Simonetti; Lorenzo Cappietti (2017). A CFD Study on the Balance of Energy in a Fixed Bottom-detached Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converter. In: 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Cork, Ireland, 27 agosto - 1 settembre 2017, European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2017, pp. 0-0.

Simonetti, Irene (2016). Optimization of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters - A numerical study. (Tutor: Lorenzo Cappietti, Houcine Oumeraci)

Simonetti, Irene; Crema, Ilaria; Cappietti, Lorenzo; Elsafti, Hisham; Oumeraci, Hocine (2016). Site-specific optimization of an OWC wave energy converter in a Mediterranean area. In: 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-26 Ottobre 2016, Guedes Soares, pp. 343-350, ISBN:978-1-138-62627-0

Irene, Simonetti; Lorenzo, Cappietti (2016). Ottimizzazione mediante CFD di un dispositivo OWC per il clima ondoso Mediterraneo. In: XXXV Congresso Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Bologna, 14-16 Settembre 2016, Castellarin, Attilio ; Archetti, Renata ; Baratti, Emanuele ; Cappelletti, Matteo ; Carisi, Francesca ; Domeneghetti, Alessio ; Gaeta, Maria Gabriella ; Paci, Agnese ; Persiano, Simone ; Pugliese, Alessio ; Samaras, Achilleas G., pp. 257-260, ISBN:9788898010400 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Bigozzi, Lisa; EL BASRI, Emanuele; Iannicello, Francesca; MARSILI LIBELLI, Stefano; Simonetti, Irene (2016). Assessing input-output relations in environemntal data by means of fuzzy clustering and Bayesian inference. In: 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Toluose, France, 10-14 July 2016, Sauvage, Sánchez-Pérez, Rizzoli, pp. 583-592, ISBN:9788890357459

Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo; Oumeraci, Hocine (2016). Phenomenon of air compressibility in air-water systems, benchmarking a two-phase numerical model. In: 7th Short Course and Conference on Applied Coastal Research (SCACR), Firenze, Italia, 28 Settembre - 1 Ottobre 2015, EdiBios, pp. 233-239, ISBN:978-88-97181-52-1

Irene Simonetti; Lorenzo Cappietti; Hisham El Safti; Hocine Oumeraci (2015). 3D Numerical Modelling of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Conversion Devices: Current Knowledge and OpenFOAM® implementation. In: RENEW 2014, Lisbon, 2014, Guedes Soares, pp. 497-504, ISBN:978-113802871-5

Crema, Ilaria; Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo; Oumeraci, Hocine. (2015). Laboratory Experiments on Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters Integrated in a Very Large Floating Structure. In: European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Nantes, France, 6-11th Sept 2015, Alain H. Clément, pp. 0-0.

Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo; El Safti, Hisham; Manfrida, Giampaolo; Matthies Herman; Oumeraci, Hocine. (2015). THE USE OF OPENFOAM AS A VIRTUAL LABORATORY TO SIMULATE OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS. In: 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2015, Roma, 2015, F. Salvatore, R. Broglia and R. Muscari, pp. 153-164, ISBN:978-84-943928-6-3

Simonetti, Irene; Maltagliati, Silvia; Manfrida, Giampaolo (2015). Air quality impact of a middle size airport within an urban context through EDMS simulation. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH. PART D, TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT, vol. 40, pp. 144-154, ISSN:1361-9209 DOI

Simonetti, Irene; Cappietti, Lorenzo; El Safti, Hisham; Oumeraci, Hocine (2015). Numerical Modelling of Fixed Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Conversion Devices: Toward Geometry Hydraulic Optimization. In: ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, May 31–June 5, 2015, ASME, vol. Volume 9: Ocean Renwable Energy, pp. 0-0, ISBN:978-0-7918-5657-4 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Simonetti, Irene (2014). Modellistica analitica e numerica di dispositivi del tipo “Oscillating Water Column”, stato dell’arte e prime applicazioni. STUDI COSTIERI, vol. 22, pp. 259-260, ISSN:1129-8588

IRENE SIMONETTI; LORENZO CAPPIETTI (2014). Simulazione numerica di un dispositivo Oscillating Water Column per lo struttamento dell'energia delle onde marine. Stato dell'arte e implementazione in ambiente OpenFOAM. In: IDRA14, Bari, 7-10 settembre 2014, Zaccaria Editore, pp. 827-828, ISBN:9788890456183

Dainotto A.; Barni G.; Giaccherini F.; Magnolfi V.; Marsili Libelli S.; Simonetti I. (2012). A multilevel coordinated control strategy for energy conservation in wastewater treatment plants. In: 2nd IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control - PID 2012, Brescia, 28-30 March 2012, IFAC, pp. 1-6.

Irene SIMONETTI

Biography

Irene Simonetti is currently a research associate (RTD) at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Florence.

In November 2016 she was awarded a PhD in "Civil and Environmental Engineering" (joint consortium of universities of Florence - UNIFI, Pisa - UNIPI, Perugia - UNIPG and TU Braunschweigh, Germany) with a thesis entitled "Optimization of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Convertes – A numerical study" .

Irene SIMONETTI

Curriculum

2022-present: Research Associate (RTD, art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence

Previous position:

2016-2021: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Florence

Education

2016: International Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering - University of Florence, Italy Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany – (final mark: outstanding)

2012: Master degree in Environmental Engineering, University of Florence (final mark 110/110L).

Irene SIMONETTI

Interest

Nearshore and Offshore Hydrodynamics. Wave Energy Conversion technologies, focusing on device optimization.

CFD simulation of wave/coastal structure interaction with open source software (e.g. OpenFOAM).

Numerical wave generation and Virtual wave flumes with CFD techniques.