Associate Professor (L. 240)
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)
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- Member of Interdepartmental Center CWC - CleanWaterCenter@PoliTo
Profile
Research interests
Curriculum
Scientific branch
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Fellowships
- Fellow - Higher Educatio Academy, Regno Unito (2014-)
Fellow of the Higher Education Aademy (UK)
Editorial boards
- ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES (2016-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Ricercatore, presso University of Southampton
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Civile ed Edile. Componente
- Collegio di Ingegneria per l'Ambiente e il Territorio. Componente
Teachings
PhD
- An Introduction to turbulent flows. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- An Introduction to turbulent flows. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- An Introduction to turbulent flows. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- Ecoidraulica: ecologia e fluidi in movimento. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- An Introduction to turbulent flows. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- Ecoidraulica: ecologia e fluidi in movimento. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- Introduzione allo studio dei flussi turbolenti. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- Ecoidraulica: ecologia e fluidi in movimento. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Applied hydrology/Environmental fluid mechanics (modulo di Environmental fluid mechanics). A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Titolare del corso
- Atelier di progettazione e consolidamento di ponti. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Atelier di progettazione e consolidamento di ponti. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Applied hydrology/Environmental fluid mechanics (modulo di Environmental fluid mechanics). A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Titolare del corso
- Atelier di progettazione e consolidamento di ponti. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Fundamentals of Environmental Geosciences. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Applied hydrology/Environmental fluid mechanics (modulo di Environmental fluid mechanics). A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Titolare del corso
- Applied hydrology/Environmental fluid mechanics (modulo di Environmental fluid mechanics). A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Titolare del corso
- Fundamentals of Environmental Geosciences. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Atelier di progettazione e consolidamento di ponti. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Applied hydrology/Environmental fluid mechanics (modulo di Environmental fluid mechanics). A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Titolare del corso
- Applied hydrology/Environmental fluid mechanics (modulo di Environmental fluid mechanics). A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Titolare del corso
- Idraulica II. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Applied hydrology/Environmental fluid mechanics (modulo di Environmental fluid mechanics). A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Titolare del corso
- Idraulica II. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2025/26, CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
- Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2024/25, CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
- Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2023/24, CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
- Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Research
Research areas
Laboratories
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- SHIEELD:Assessing the value of eelgrass in nature-based coastal defence, (2022-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Excellent Science - Marie Curie - BUBBLES4LIFE - Bubbles for life: hydrodynamic cavitation for water disinfection in developing countries, (2017-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Corporate-funded and donor-funded research
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- USR Piemonte - Accordo quadro tra Politecnico di Torino e Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Piemonte, (2024-2027) - Membro di Comitato
Framework agreements - Consulenza relativa alla misurazione sperimentale delle prestazioni di un impianto per la cattura diretta di CO2 da atmosfera, (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - Progetto IDEE – Il trattamento DElle nebbie di olio filtri E metodi di progettazione Innovativi, presentata per il bando PRISM_E – numero domanda 6051, (2019-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Mohammad Karimipour Parashkooh. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Chang Xu. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Francesco Giordana. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Fabio Tarena. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (37th cycle, 2022-2025)
Thesis: Upstream passage of small sized fish species - effects of light and hydrodynamics
Environmental Quality Fluid Mechanics Water Engineering Environmental Quality Fluid Mechanics Water Engineering - Muhammad Usama Ashraf. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: Fish Swimming Performance: Insights from Theory and Experiments
Fluid Mechanics Fluid Mechanics - Gloria Mozzi. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: Fish collective behaviour in flowing waters
Publications
PoliTO co-authors
Latest publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Vettori, Davide; Giordana, Francesco; Manes, Costantino (2025)
Turbulence enhances wave attenuation of seagrass in combined wave–current flows. In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, vol. 122. ISSN 0027-8424
Contributo su Rivista - Buono, Elia; Katul, Gabriel; Heisel, Michael; Poggi, Davide; Peruzzi, Cosimo; Vettori, ... (2024)
The vertical-velocity skewness in the atmospheric boundary layer without buoyancy and Coriolis effects. In: PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, vol. 36. ISSN 1089-7666
Contributo su Rivista - Buono, E.; Katul, G.; Heisel, M.; Vettori, D.; Poggi, D.; Peruzzi, C.; Manes, C. (2024)
The vertical-velocity skewness in the inertial sublayer of turbulent wall flows. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 1001. ISSN 1469-7645
Contributo su Rivista - Buono, E.; Katul, G. G.; Vettori, D.; Poggi, D.; Manes, C. (2024)
Revisiting a Drag Partition Model For Canopy-Like Roughness Elements. In: BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY, vol. 190. ISSN 1573-1472
Contributo su Rivista - Ashraf, MUHAMMAD USAMA; Nyqvist, Daniel; Comoglio, Claudio; Nikora, Vladimir; Marion, ... (2024)
Decoding burst swimming performance: a scaling perspective on time-to-fatigue. In: JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, vol. 21. ISSN 1742-5689
Contributo su Rivista - Vanin, Elisa; Manes, Costantino; Mattozzi, Alvise; Giordana, Lara; Rispoli, Micol; ... (2024)
Theater as a means of communicating research on climate change: The case of “Cambiare il clima”. In: ISCIENCE, vol. 27. ISSN 2589-0042
Contributo su Rivista - Mozzi, Gloria; Manes, Costantino; Nyqvist, Daniel; Domenici, Paolo; Comoglio, Claudio (2024)
Aggregation in Riverine Fish: A Review from a Fish Passage Perspective. In: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, pp. 265-280. ISSN 2190-5193. ISBN: 9783031560927
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Mozzi, Gloria; Nyqvist, Daniel; Ashraf, Muhammad Usama; Comoglio, Claudio; Domenici, ... (2024)
The interplay of group size and flow velocity modulates fish exploratory behaviour. In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 14. ISSN 2045-2322
Contributo su Rivista - Ashraf, M. U.; Nyqvist, D.; Comoglio, C.; Mozzi, G.; Domenici, P.; Marion, A.; Manes, C. (2024)
Fish Swimming Performance: Effect of Flume Length and Different Fatigue Definitions. In: International School of Hydraulic, pp. 1-11. ISSN 2190-5193. ISBN: 9783031560927
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Vettori, D.; Pezzutto, P.; Bouma, T. J.; Shahmohammadi, A.; Manes, C. (2024)
On the wave attenuation properties of seagrass meadows. In: COASTAL ENGINEERING, vol. 189. ISSN 0378-3839
Contributo su Rivista - Ashraf, MUHAMMAD USAMA; Nyqvist, Daniel; Comoglio, Claudio; Manes, Costantino (2024)
The effect of in-flume habituation time and fish behaviour on estimated swimming performance. In: JOURNAL OF ECOHYDRAULICS. ISSN 2470-5365
Contributo su Rivista - Mosayyebi, A.; Vijayakumar, A.; Mosayebi, M.; Lange, D.; Somani, B. K.; Manes, C.; ... (2022)
The accumulation of particles in ureteric stents is mediated by flow dynamics: Full-scale computational and experimental modeling of the occluded and unoccluded ureter. In: APL BIOENGINEERING, vol. 6. ISSN 2473-2877
Contributo su Rivista - Starnoni, M.; Manes, C. (2022)
On the interplay between pressure and gravitational forces in coalescing filters. In: JOURNAL OF AEROSOL SCIENCE, vol. 162. ISSN 0021-8502
Contributo su Rivista - Vettori, Davide; Manes, Costantino; Dalmazzo, Davide; Ridolfi, Luca (2022)
On Escherichia coli Resistance to Fluid Shear Stress and Its Significance for Water Disinfection. In: WATER, vol. 14. ISSN 2073-4441
Contributo su Rivista - Bert, Roberto; Manes, Costantino; Tiraferri, Alberto (2022)
New Facility for Membrane Fouling Investigations under Customizable Hydrodynamics: Validation and Preliminary Experiments with Pulsating Cross-Flow. In: MEMBRANES, vol. 12. ISSN 2077-0375
Contributo su Rivista - Cantero-Chinchilla, F. N.; De Almeida, G. A. M.; Manes, C. (2021)
Temporal Evolution of Clear-Water Local Scour at Bridge Piers with Flow-Dependent Debris Accumulations. In: JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING, vol. 147. ISSN 0733-9429
Contributo su Rivista - Coscarella, F.; Gaudio, R.; Katul, G. G.; Manes, C. (2021)
Relation between the spectral properties of wall turbulence and the scaling of the Darcy-Weisbach friction factor. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS, vol. 6. ISSN 2469-990X
Contributo su Rivista - Starnoni, M.; Manes, C. (2021)
A multiphase multicomponent flow and transport model for liquid aerosol filtration in coalescing fibrous filters. In: SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY, vol. 266. ISSN 1383-5866
Contributo su Rivista - Vesipa, R.; Paissoni, E.; Manes, C.; Ridolfi, L. (2021)
Dynamics of bubbles under stochastic pressure forcing. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, vol. 103. ISSN 2470-0045
Contributo su Rivista - Camporeale, CARLO VINCENZO; Cannamela, Fabio; Canuto, Claudio; Manes, Costantino (2021)
Stability analysis of open-channel flows with secondary currents. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 927. ISSN 0022-1120
Contributo su Rivista - Peruzzi, C.; Vettori, D.; Poggi, D.; Blondeaux, P.; Ridolfi, L.; Manes, C. (2021)
On the influence of collinear surface waves on turbulence in smooth-bed open-channel flows. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 924. ISSN 0022-1120
Contributo su Rivista - Vezza, P.; Libardoni, F.; Manes, C.; Tsuzaki, T.; Bertoldi, W.; Kemp, P. S. (2020)
Rethinking swimming performance tests for bottom-dwelling fish: the case of European glass eel (Anguilla anguilla). In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 10. ISSN 2045-2322
Contributo su Rivista - Peruzzi, C.; Poggi, D.; Ridolfi, L.; Manes, C. (2020)
On the scaling of large-scale structures in smooth-bed turbulent open-channel flows. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 889. ISSN 0022-1120
Contributo su Rivista - Burzio, E.; Bersani, F.; Caridi, G. C. A.; Vesipa, R.; Ridolfi, L.; Manes, C. (2020)
Water disinfection by orifice-induced hydrodynamic cavitation. In: ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY, vol. 60. ISSN 1350-4177
Contributo su Rivista - Rogers, Ashley; Manes, Costantino; Tsuzaki, Toru (2020)
Measuring the geometry of a developing scour hole in clear-water conditions using underwater sonar scanning. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEDIMENT RESEARCH, vol. 35, pp. 105-114. ISSN 1001-6279
Contributo su Rivista - de Bie, J.; Manes, C.; Kemp, P. S. (2020)
Collective behaviour of fish in the presence and absence of flow. In: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, vol. 167, pp. 151-159. ISSN 0003-3472
Contributo su Rivista - Nicolai, C.; Taddei, S.; Manes, C.; Ganapathisubramani, B. (2020)
Wakes of wall-bounded turbulent flows past patches of circular cylinders. In: JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 892. ISSN 0022-1120
Contributo su Rivista - Coscarella, F.; Gaudio, R.; Manes, C. (2020)
Near-bed eddy scales and clear-water local scouring around vertical cylinders. In: JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH, vol. 58, pp. 968-981. ISSN 0022-1686
Contributo su Rivista - Peruzzi, Cosimo; Poggi, Davide; Ridolfi, Luca; Manes, Costantino (2019)
On the Very-Large-Scale Motions in Smooth-Bed Open-Channel Flows. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 7–12 April 2019, pp. 1-1
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Clubley, S.; Manes, C.; Richards, D. (2015)
1400033: High-resolution sonars set to revolutionise bridge scour inspections. In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. CIVIL ENGINEERING, vol. 168, pp. 35-42. ISSN 0965-089X
Contributo su Rivista