Pierfranco COSTABILE
Professori Associati
Costruzioni idrauliche e marittime e idrologia (CEAR-01/B)
Contacts
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente - (DIAm)
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente - (DIAm)
- pierfranco.costabile@unical.it
- 0984/496557
Reception Hours
Venerdì, 11:00-12:00
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Pierfranco Costabile
Associate Professor – SSD ICAR/02 (Hydraulic and maritime works and Hydrology)
Department of Environmental Engineering
University of Calabria - Italy
Via. P. Bucci, 87036 (Rende – CS)
Email: pierfranco.costabile@unical.it
ORCID: 0000-0003-1147-9929
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=iMrc7UgAAAAJ&hl=it
SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=26031308800
ERC macrosectors: PE10_17 (Hydrology, hydrogeology, engineering and environmental geology, water and soil pollution); PE8_3 (Civil engineering, architecture, maritime/hydraulic engineering, geotechnics, waste treatment);
Personal data
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Born in Galatina (Lecce), April 18, 1979
Education
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2004-2006 PhD student at PhD school in “Hydraulic Engineering for the Environment” University of Calabria- UNICAL (research field: Highly unsteady flood modeling over erodible beds).
2003 Postgraduate Specialisation - second-level University Master Degree "Mathematical modeling of Hydrogeological disasters" aimed at the formation of experts in flood risk and hydrogeological disasters (University of Calabria – UNICAL).
2002 M.Sc. (cum laude) in Environmental Engineering, University of Calabria (title: analysis on the numerical modeling of the source terms in the Shallow Water Equations).
Academic Position
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Associate professor from 2020.
Assistant professor from 2005.
Scientific Publications
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Author or co-author of 19 papers on international journals, 40 papers published in national and international conference proceedings. On March 21th, 2022, a Scopus search resulted in 28 documents, with 581 citations and H-index of 14. The number of papers in ISI journals over the last five years is 16.
Direction and participation in research projects
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2021 to present: "EHYMOD - Environmental HYdraulic MODelling”, Research Project at SCAI (Super Computing Applications and Innovations) – ISCRA (Italian Super Computing Resource Allocation) - CINECA.
2020-2021: “BAsin scale FLOod Hazard Assessment”, Research Project at SCAI (Super Computing Applications and Innovations) – ISCRA (Italian Super Computing Resource Allocation) - CINECA.
2010-2012: "Methodologies for identifying flood-prone areas" POR CALABRIA 2000-2006.
2007-2009: "Flood propagation in compound channels" - University of Calabria (MURST 60%).
2007-2009: "Mathematical modelling of flood event due to heavy rains" Scientific Agreement between CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change) and Unical.
2006-2008: Project CESIC (Supercomputing Centre for Computational Engineering). Work Package “ Hydraulic Protection of Territory”.
2006-2008: "Study of potential mud flows in the Sarno area for prevention purposes" - Scientific Agreement between : Government Commissioner for the Hydrogeological emergency in the Campania region and UNICAL.
2005-2007: "Flood propagation on complex topography" - PRIN 2005 funding program.
2005-2006: "Flood dynamics in erodible areas" - University of Calabria (MURST 60%).
Brief descriptions of the research topics
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The research topics refer mostly to the quantitative evaluation of the hydraulic consequences associated to flood events, caused by natural phenomenon or dam break/breach situations, in order to provide reliable methods for flood risk prediction and management. Specifically, the reference framework of the research is based on the Shallow Water Equations, using both 1D and 2D modelling, considering also the effects of the morphological changes associated to the evolution of the event in flood-prone areas.
The mathematical and numerical methods developed over the years have been used not only to propose advanced approaches for the flood hazard assessment in both urbanized and natural areas but also as an innovative contribution for the analysis of rainfall-runoff modeling at the basin scale. Regarding this latter aspect, new tools of analysis of the river drainage networks has been developed, providing new perspectives for the study of environmental fluxes, such as water, sediment and nutrient. Recently, attention has been focused on the quantification of the impacts induced by climate change on urban flooding.
Furthermore, attention has been focused also on the development of new approaches for flood risk communication based on 3-D representations of flood inundation, to engage people with flood hazards. Finally, some experimental works related to the evaluation of discharge coefficients for specific grated inlets, in the context of surface drainage of roads, has been carried out.
The main research topics are:
- Hydrodynamic-based rainfall-runoff modeling
- 1D Flood propagation in compound channel
- 2D Flood modeling in urban areas
- Highly unsteady flood modeling over erodible beds
- Propagation of dam break wave
- Generation of dam breach flood wave
- Flood risk communication
- Multifractal analysis of river networks
- Urban storm drainage and efficiency of grated inlets
- Impacts of climate change on urban flooding
Speaker in National/International Conferences (selection)
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September, 2016: XXXV National Conference on Hydraulics and Hydraulic Works
September, 2014: Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics - River Flow 2014.
September, 2012: XXXIII National Conference on Hydraulics and Hydraulic Works.
July, 2011: VI EWRA (European Water Resources Association) International Symposium
May, 2010: First European IAHR Congress.
August, 2009: 33rd International Association of Hydraulic Engineering & Research Congress (IAHR) Congress
July, 2007: 32° International Congress of IAHR – “Harmonizing the demands of art and nature in hydraulics"
September, 2006: XXX Convegno National Conference on Hydraulics and Hydraulic Works
Settembre 2006: Third Edition of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics - River Flow 2006
Conference service (recent years)
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2022: Member of the International Scientific Committee of the 11th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (River Flow 2022, Canada)
2019: Member of the Local Organizing Committe of the 40° Italian Conference on Integrated River Basin Management
2018: IDRA 2018 Ancona, Italia, chairman of oral session “Models and Methods for flood hazard assessment and management
2018: Member of the Local Organizing Committe of the 39° Italian Conference on Integrated River Basin Management
2017: Member of the Local Organizing Committe of the 38° Italian Conference on Integrated River Basin Management
2016: IDRA 2016 Bologna, Italia, chairman of oral session "Flood hazard assessment"
Membership in academic committes
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2021 Member of committee for the recruitment procedure of two fixed-term researchers (RTdA) / SSD ICAR/02 at the University of Parma.
2020 Member of committee for the recruitment procedure of one fixed-term researcher (RTdA) / SSD ICAR/02 at the University of Pavia.
2018 Member of the final PhD exam committee for the doctoral school of “Civil Engineering and Architecture” at the University of Pavia.
2017-2018 Member of the committee for professional engineering practice exam at the University of Calabria.
2013-present Member of the doctoral school in Sciences and Engineering of Environments, Constructions, and Energy at the University of Calabria.
2007-2012 Member of the doctoral school in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering at the University of Calabria.
Awards and recognitions
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2020 to present: Member of the Editorial Board for the international Journal: Annals of Applied Sciences
2020: Guest Editor for “Hydrology” - Special Issue: “Advances and Perspectives in flood risk modeling, assessment and communication” (together with Prof. Luis Cea, University of A Coruña (Spain).
2018 present: Member of the Reviewer Board for the Journal “Remote Sensing”.
2017: National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor.
2012-2014: Participation to “IAHR Working Group on Compound Channels”, coordinated by Prof. Didier Bousmar - Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (Belgium).
Reviewer service
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Journal papers (more than 80)
Water Resources Research, Environmental Modelling and Software, Natural Hazards, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Water, Remote Sensing, Sustainability, Geosciences, Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hydrology, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Progress in Physical Geography, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Journal of Environmental Engineering, Fluids.
Teaching experience at the University of Calabria (since 2007)
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“Hydraulic Works”
“Hydraulic Protection of the Territory”
"River restoration"
Student Supervisor
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2 Ph.D theses
>20 M. Sc. theses
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Contacts
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente - (DIAm)
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente - (DIAm)
- pierfranco.costabile@unical.it
- 0984/496557
Reception Hours
Venerdì, 11:00-12:00