Prof. Silvia Di Francesco is an Associate Professor in hydraulics at the Department of Engineering, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy. Her main areas of research activity include the following: evaluation and management of the water resources with remote sensing techniques ; computational fluid dynamics applied to hydraulic engineering works and environmental flows; hydraulic risk analysis; Lattice Boltzmann Method for free surface flows.
Research Keywords & Expertise
CFD modeling
Free Surface Flow
river hydraulics
hydraulic risk
Water Resource Managem...
remote sensing image
Short Biography
Prof. Silvia Di Francesco is an Associate Professor in hydraulics at the Department of Engineering, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy. Her main areas of research activity include the following: evaluation and management of the water resources with remote sensing techniques ; computational fluid dynamics applied to hydraulic engineering works and environmental flows; hydraulic risk analysis; Lattice Boltzmann Method for free surface flows.