Marilena Greco
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Scientific
Interests
Marine
Hydrodynamics. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Nonlinear Free
Surface and Multiphase Flows. Free-surface Wave propagation. Seakeeping of
Vessels and Offshore Structures. Water on deck. Slamming. Fluid-Structure
Interactions. Hydroelasticity. Vessel Dynamic Instabilities. Offshore
Aquaculture. Offshore Renewable Energy. Bio-inspired concepts for marine
applications.
Present Positions
January 2023-: Research Manager (I professional level - Dirigente
di Ricerca).
CNR-INM, National Research Council –
Institute of Marine Engineering, Rome, Italy. The position is part-time. Scientific area (SSD): Area 09
“Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione”; 09/A1 – “Ingegneria aeronautica,
aerospaziale e navale”.
January 2010-: Full Professor of
Marine Hydrodynamics.
Marine Technology
Department (IMT), Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, NTNU,
Trondheim, Norway. Position funded for the first five years by Det Norske
Veritas (DNV) to continue Professor Faltinsen’s research and teaching activity.
NTNU-IMT has a very high world rank in the Academic Ranking of World
Universities in Marine/Ocean Engineering field (http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/marine-ocean-engineering.html ).
Employment History
January 2013-June
2023: Key
Scientist in Marine Hydrodynamics.
Norwegian Centre of
Excellence NTNU AMOS - Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems,
Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
January 2011-December 2022: Senior Researcher (II
level - I Researcher).
CNR-INM, National Research Council –
Institute of Marine Engineering, Rome, Italy. The position is part-time. Scientific area (SSD): Area 09
“Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione”; 09/A1 – “Ingegneria aeronautica,
aerospaziale e navale”.
January 2009-December 2010: Senior Researcher (II
level - I Researcher).
INSEAN, The Italian Ship Model Basin,
Rome, Italy. The position implied the responsibility of advising other
researcher’s activities and work at management level. It was part-time since
January 2010.
February 2008-January
2010: Adjunct
Professor (Professor II).
Marine
Technology Department (IMT), Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology,
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. The Norwegian Centre of Excellence on Ships and Ocean
Structures (CeSOS), Trondheim, Norway, funded the position with specialty on
Computational Marine Hydrodynamics. The Centre proposed this position directly
to M. Greco but she had to fulfil the NTNU requirements, which involve her
examination by a technical and by a pedagogical committee.
January 2003-December
2012: Affiliated
and Visiting Scientist.
Centre of
Excellence CeSOS, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Six-month period for every year.
November
1999-December 2008: Permanent
Researcher.
Dept. of
Seakeeping and Manoeuvring, INSEAN, The Italian Ship Model Basin, Rome, Italy.
January 1998-November
2001:
Doctoral Candidate in Marine Hydrodynamics.
Faculty
of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway. Main supervisor: Prof. Odd Magnus
Faltinsen.
April 1997-August
1999:
Temporary-contract Researcher, as expert in numerical methods.
Dept. of
Seakeeping and Manoeuvring, INSEAN, The Italian Ship Model Basin, Rome, Italy.
Education
and Pedagogical-Development Record
November 2024: NTNU’s PhD-supervisor
seminar.
Two-day seminar
aimed to contribute to the development of competence as PhD supervisor, by
reflecting on the different roles of the supervisor.
University
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
January 2013-November
2013: PEDUP
- Educational development program, qualification.
PEDUP
aims to enhance pedagogical skills of permanent scientific employees at the
University NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
September 2001: Doctor of Philosophy
in Marine Hydrodynamics.
Thesis: A
two-dimensional Study of Green-Water Loading (MTA-Rapport 2001-146). Main
supervisor Professor Odd M. Faltinsen. Courses
taken during the Ph.D.: seven exams dealing with theoretical, numerical and
experimental analyses involving free-surface flows and wave-body interactions,
both in the marine field. Faculty of Marine
Technology, NTNU, Trondheim Norway.
February 1997: Master degree in
Aeronautical Engineering. Grade: 110/110 with honour.
Thesis in
numerical fluid dynamics: Hydrodynamic loads and wave generation during the
motion of marine vehicles. Main supervisor Prof. Giorgio Graziani. The thesis
work was carried out at INSEAN, under the supervision of Dr. Maurizio Landrini. University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Outline
of Scientific Contributions
Her research activities have mainly concerned
theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies on problems involving sea-body
interactions. Some of her supervised and/or collaborative research
contributions are on fish and fish-like hydrodynamics; bio-inspired studies for
underwater vehicles; behaviour at sea of marine net-based/semi-closed and
closed fish farms; damaged ship sections at sea; hydrodynamic-load model within
a novel analytical hydro-plastic strategy in extreme water slamming; local
analytical solutions for water-structure impact and their coupling with global
analyses of liquid-structure interactions; water-on-deck scenarios relevant for
FPSO platforms in waves and a weakly nonlinear seakeeping solver to study
interactions of offshore structures for oil & gas and renewable energy, as
well as slowly advancing ships, with steep waves; development of advanced,
accurate and efficient solvers for wave propagation and wave-body interactions
in scenarios dominated by potential-flow effects and of advanced numerical
methods, as well as hybrid solution strategies, coupling different solvers
(potential-flow and Navier-Stokes solvers, solvers for incompressible and
compressible flows, for multi-phase (including gas-cavity splitting/merging
phenomena) and free-surface flows) for accurate and efficient solutions.
Just to mention some of her research
contributions:
·
She
identified occurrence and features of water-on-deck scenarios relevant for FPSO
platforms in waves.
·
She
developed local analytical solutions for water-structure impact and coupled
them with global analyses of liquid-structure interactions. In this context,
she proposed intrinsic and iterative approaches to assess relevance of
hydroelasticity. The applications were offshore structures for oil and gas and
renewable-energy applications, and very large floating airports.
·
She
developed (within a research team) a weakly nonlinear seakeeping solver to
study interactions of offshore structures for oil and gas and renewable-energy
applications, as well as slowly advancing ships, with steep waves. With this
method, among others, occurrence and mutual influence of water on deck and
parametric resonance events were analysed and relevant scaling laws were
identified.
·
She
developed (within a research team) advanced numerical hybrid solution
strategies, coupling different solvers (potential-flow solvers, Navier-Stokes
solvers, for incompressible and compressible flows, for multi-phase and
free-surface flows) for accurate and efficient solutions. This includes dynamic
domain decompositions algorithms. Such strategies were applied to investigate
large amplitude body motions in free-surface waves, underwater explosions
interacting with marine structures, steady inflow interacting with blunt
bodies.
·
She
developed (within a research team) the hydrodynamic-load model within a novel
analytical strategy coupling the hydrodynamic forces and the plastic response
of rectangular beams and one-way stiffened panels subjected to extreme water
slamming. The proposed analytical model does not require, as input, the
challenging estimation of pressure history but only the initial impact velocity
and can be useful in guiding rules and standards for the design of ships and
offshore structures against extreme slamming loads.
Career
Profile
A. Management and Participation in Research
Projects
Management
2019-2023: Work-Package responsible for the
Research Project AROS - Autonomous Robots for Ocean Sustainability, with leader
Professor Kristin Pettersen.
2019-2023: Operative-Unit responsible for CNR-INM
in the Research Project Sistema-Tema 1.8: Energia Elettrica dal Mare.
2019-2023: Work-Package responsible for the
Research Project SLADE KBN - Fundamental investigations of violent wave actions
and impact response, with leader SINTEF Ocean.
2013-2023: Key scientist for the Norwegian Centre
of Excellence (CoE) Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems, NTNU
AMOS (https://www.ntnu.edu/amos/key-scientists).
2013-2022: Project Manager for the Centre of
Excellence (CoE) NTNU AMOS of the Research Umbrella “Hydrodynamic Challenges in
Achieving Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems” split in 10 Annual Projects
ranging from Phase I to Phase X.
2013-2017: Project Manager for the Centre of
Excellence (CoE) NTNU AMOS of the Research Project No. 50053200 - Intelligent
offshore aquaculture structures (Project 2 of NTNU AMOS – Phase 1).
2003-2007: Project Manager for INSEAN of the
Research Project EUCLID CEPA 10 RTP 10.17 Submarine Motions in Confined Waters,
four-year contract EDA B0046 (ex EUCLID RTP10.17).
Participation
2019-: Operative-Unit responsible for the
Research Project Sistema-Tema 1.8: Energia Elettrica dal Mare.
2018-2023: Participant for the Centre of
Excellence (CoE) NTNU AMOS of the Research Project No. 90226210 - Marine
Robotic platforms (Project 2 of NTNU AMOS – Phase 2, https://www.ntnu.edu/amos/amos-project-2).
2018-2023: Participant for the Centre of
Excellence (CoE) NTNU AMOS of the Research Project No. 90226310 - Risk
Management and maximized operability of ships and ocean structures (Project 3
of NTNU AMOS – Phase 2, https://www.ntnu.edu/amos/amos-project-3).
2013-2017: Participant for the Centre of
Excellence (CoE) NTNU AMOS of the Research Project No. 50053100 - Optimization
and Fault-tolerant Control of Offshore Renewable Energy Systems (Project 1 of NTNU AMOS – Phase 1).
2013-2017: Participant for the Centre of
Excellence (CoE) NTNU AMOS of the Research Project No. 50053600 - Energy
management and propulsion for greener operations of ships and offshore
structures (Project 6 of NTNU AMOS – Phase
1).
2013-2017: Participant for the Centre of
Excellence (CoE) NTNU AMOS of the Research Project No. 50053700 - Autonomous
marine operations in extreme seas, violent water-structure interactions, deep
waters and Arctic (Project 7 of NTNU
AMOS – Phase 1).
2013-2017: Participant for the Centre of
Excellence (CoE) NTNU AMOS of the Research Project No. 50053800 - Consequences
of accidental and abnormal events on ships and offshore structures (Project 8
of NTNU AMOS – Phase 1).
2012-2016: Participant for
INSEAN to the Project RITMARE flagship project.
2008-2012: Participant for INSEAN to the 5-year
Research Project Violent Water-Vessel Interactions and Related Structural
Loads.
2007-2009: Participant for INSEAN to the
PROGRAMMA DI RICERCA INSEAN 2007-2009 within the operative unit, area 3.0
“Sea-keeping e Manovrabilità”.
2006-2007: Participant for INSEAN to the
PROGRAMMA DI RICERCA INSEAN LUGLIO 2006-DICEMBRE 2007 within the operative unit,
area 3.0 “Sea-keeping e Manovrabilità”.
2006-2009: Participant for INSEAN to the
Project 6DOF-RANSE RP-Phase II Sviluppo di codici di calcolo per la previsione
del comportamento delle navi con mare mosso.
2006-2008: Participant for INSEAN to the
PROGRAMMA RICERCA SULLA SICUREZZA 2006-2008.
2003-2007: Participant for INSEAN to the
Research Project Green Water Events and Related Structural Loads.
2003-2005: Participant for INSEAN to the
PROGRAMMA RICERCA SULLA SICUREZZA PER IL TRIENNIO 2003-2005.
2001-2004: Participant for INSEAN to the
Project 6DOF-RANSE RP Sviluppo di un codice di calcolo per la previsione del
comportamento delle navi in condizione di mare grosso.
2000-2002: Participant for INSEAN to the
PROGRAMMA DI RICERCA INSEAN 2000-2002 within the operative unit, area 3.0
“Dinamica dei Veicoli Marini”.
1998-1999: Participant for INSEAN to the
PROGRAMMA DI RICERCA INSEAN 1997-1999 within the operative unit, area 3.0
“Sicurezza delle Navi e della Navigazione”.
B. Teaching and Lecturer Activities
2014–: Responsible and co-lecturer of the PhD
course MR8300 “Hydrodynamic
Aspects of Marine Structures I” at the Dept. of Marine Technology, Univ. NTNU.
Course content in brief: Source and dipole
methods applied to hydrodynamic problems for marine structures. Effect of waves
and current. Conventional ships and high-speed vessels in calm water and waves.
Sloshing. Nonlinear hydrodynamic loads on marine structures. CFD methods.
Slamming. Whipping. Wave drift loads in irregular sea. Sum-frequency effects.
Ringing.
(https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/MR8300).
2011–: Contributing lecturer, and responsible
since 2017, of the MSc course TMR4217 “Hydrodynamics of high-speed marine
vehicles” ” at the Dept. of Marine Technology, Univ. NTNU.
Course content in brief: The course
considers the three main categories of high-speed vessels, i.e. hull-supported,
air-cushion supported and foil supported vessels. Hull-supported vessels are
semi-displacement and planing vessels. All hydrodynamic aspects are discussed:
resistance, trim, wash, propulsion, seakeeping, hydrodynamic stability and
maneuvering. Links to automatic control and structural mechanics are
emphasized.
(https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/TMR4217)
2010–: Responsible and lecturer of the MSc
course TMR4215 “Sea Loads” at the Dept. of Marine Technology, Univ. NTNU.
Course content in brief: Basic equations
and linearization. Regular and irregular waves. Wind. Current. Radiation and
diffraction problems. Excitation loads. Added-mass and damping: physical
meaning, strip-theory. Methods to estimate cross-sectional added mass and
damping. Restoring loads. Response in regular waves and irregular sea states.
Minimization of heave, pitch and roll ship motion. Second-order effects: mean
values, difference and sum-frequency effects. Mean wave induced loads from
direct pressure integration and conservation of fluid momentum. Drift loads
from body capability in generating waves. Maruo’s formula. Conservation of
fluid momentum. Direct-pressure integration versus conservation of fluid
momentum. Added resistance in waves. Viscous effects on mean wave forces. Slow
drift motions. Slow drift motions in irregular waves. Wave-drift damping.
Eddy-making damping: equivalent linearization. Slowly varying oscillations due
to wind. Slow-drift models. Sum-frequency effects. Current and wind loads. Boundary-layer. Wake.
Current loads on offshore structures. Wind loads. Vortex-induced resonance
oscillations. Galloping. Viscous wave loads and damping. Stationkeeping.
Slamming. Water entry. Water exit.
(https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/TMR4215)
March 2010: Invited lecturer on
“Domain-Decomposition Strategies for Marine Applications” at Det Norske Veritas
(DNV) of Oslo and for PhD students at the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Oslo.
Academic years
2004-2009:
Within the PhD course “Hydrodynamic Aspects of
Marine Structures I” at the Dept. of Marine Technology of
Univ. NTNU, M. Greco provided three-hour
numerical lectures titled “Domain-Decomposition strategy: a BEM
coupled with a Navier-Stokes plus
Level-Set solver”. In 2009, she provided a three-hour lecture titled “An
introduction to CFD methods for marine applications”. Lecture notes for the two
topics were produced. These activities have been carried out during her periods
as visiting researcher of the Centre of Excellence CeSOS and from 2008 as
adjunct professor at NTNU.
Academic year 2002-2003: Nine-hour numerical seminar on the subject
titled “Sea waves and their interaction with structures” for Ph.D. students of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy. The
topic is related to the wave-body interaction in deep-open waters and concerns
linear, weakly-nonlinear and fully nonlinear models. Theory, features of
numerical solvers and physical investigations were dealt with. The fully
nonlinear analysis was discussed in the context of Boundary Element Methods
(BEM) solving the potential flow problem, field methods solving the
Euler/Navier-Stokes equations, and Domain-Decomposition (DD) algorithms to
combine them.
C. Supervisor and Scientific Advisor Activities
Supervision of Post-Doctorate studies
2020-2021: As NTNU professor, responsible
for the Post-Doctorate research of PhD Finn-Christian Hanssen with topic on
Further Developing the HPC Method for Marine Hydrodynamics within a
collaboration between NTNU AMOS and DNV.
Dept. of
Marine Technology, Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
2018-: As NTNU professor,
responsible for the ongoing Post-Doctorate research of PhD Yugao Shen with
topic on limits for fish farm operations - Numerical study towards a moored closed rigid fish farm in waves.
Dept. of
Marine Technology, Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
2004-2005: As INSEAN researcher,
responsible for the Post-Doctorate research, within a Marie Curie Fellowship,
of PhD David Le Touzé from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN) performed from
01/02/2004 until 31/01/2005 and from 15/04/2005 until 14/08/2005. Presently, David
Le Touzé is professor at ECN. This activity was performed at INSEAN. It dealt
with the development of a Smoothed
Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver for the analysis of three-dimensional
free-surface flow problems. (Administrative orders N. 1261 of 30/01/2004 and N.
1645 of 15/04/2005 by INSEAN General Director).
INSEAN-The
Italian Ship Model Basin/ Seakeeping and Manoeuvring, Italy.
Supervision of PhD studies
As
NTNU professor, supervisor of the following ongoing PhD studies:
1.
Casper
Potter. Topic: Bio-inspired flow sensing for articulated intervention
autonomous underwater vehicles (main supervisor)
2.
Carina
Norvik. Topic: Bioinspired Fins for Articulated Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles (main supervisor)
3.
Alireza
Ahari. Topic: Local structural response due to wave slamming. (main
supervisor).
4.
Shaojun
Ma. Topic: Fish hydrodynamics (main
supervisor).
5.
Daniele
Borri. Topic: Hydrodynamics of oil
spills from oil tankers (main supervisor).
As NTNU professor, supervisor of the
following completed PhD studies:
1.
Hui-Li
Xu. Topic: Fish-inspired propulsion study: numerical hydrodynamics of
rigid/flexible/morphing foils and observations on real fish. PhD study
completed with public defense on 12/01/2022
(main supervisor).
2.
Mohd
Atif Siddiqui. Topic: Behaviour of a damaged ship in waves. PhD study
completed with public defense on 27/11/2020 (main supervisor).
3.
Finn-Christian
Hanssen. Topic: Nonlinear wave loads on
marine structures in extreme sea states. PhD study completed with public
defense on 07/06/2019 (main supervisor).
4.
Isar
Ghamari. Topic: Hydrodynamics of parametric
roll resonance and capsizing of fishing vessels. PhD study completed with
public defense on 01/02/2019 (co-supervisor).
5.
Yugao
Shen. Topic: Operational Limits for Floating-Collar
Fish Farms in Waves and Current, without and with Well-Boat Presence. PhD
study completed with public defense on 23/11/2018 (main supervisor).
6.
Zhaolong
Yu. Topic: Hydrodynamic and structural aspects in ship collisions. PhD study completed with public defense on
21/09/2017 (co-supervisor).
Supervision of MSc theses
As
NTNU professor, (main or co-) supervisor of the following completed master
theses involving 54 students:
2.
2024,
Menno Hoogeslag “Operability of WTG Blade Installation on a Semi-submersible
FOWT” (NTNU supervisor within the European Wind Energy- Double Degree Joint
Education Master Programme).
3.
2024,
Thomas van Deursen “Study on time-varying hydrodynamic coefficients for
large-scale bottom-founded wind turbines and their impact on fatigue”
(NTNU supervisor within the European Wind Energy- Double Degree Joint Education
Master Programme).
4.
2024,
Viktoria Soltesz “A study relevant for the optimization of a
semi-submersible crane vessel tailored for installing next generation wind
turbines” (main supervisor).
5.
2024,
Yann Le Floch “Theoretical and numerical study on potential re-use of in-place
concrete sub-structures for generating renewable energy form ocean waves”
(main supervisor).
6.
2024,
Oliver Schultzen “Assessment of non-linear hydrodynamic and modelling
effects in a coupled analysis of floating offshore wind platforms” (main
supervisor).
7.
2024,
Kristian Reiersen Sundsdal “A two-dimensional experimental study relevant for drift
loads of moored offshore structures and ships in beam-sea regular waves”
(main supervisor).
8.
2023,
Ana Nusa Versnik “Analysis of loads encountered during a single lift
operation of offshore wind turbines” (NTNU supervisor within the European
Wind Energy- Double Degree Joint Education Master Programme).
9.
2023,
Karl Andres Sandvik “A parameter analysis of on/off-loading strategies for
offshore aquaculture” (main supervisor).
12.
2022,
Daniel W. Ekerhovd and Stian Boge “A hydro-aerodynamic analysis of a
Floating Offshore wind turbine to assist in floater selection” (main
supervisor).
13.
2022,
Eirik Anda “Numerical Study of Potential and Viscous, Nonlinear, Effects
for Wave Drift Loads on Offshore Structures” (main supervisor).
14.
2022,
Helen Abraham and Amund Garsrud Tvedt “A Feasibility Study of a
Renewable-Energy Supply for an Offshore Oil and Gas Installation” (main
supervisor).
15.
2022,
Eirik Ruben Grimholt Søvik “Systematic Analysis of Experiments on Sub-Carangiform
Fish Hydrodynamics” (main supervisor).
16.
2021, Daniele Aromatario
“Dinamica di una piattaforma galleggiante per eolico offshore: studio delle forze
idrodinamiche in presenza di giunzioni complesse nell'ambito di una teoria a
potenziale” (student from Univ. of Study Roma 3, academic year 2020-2021, as
co-supervisor).
17.
2021,
Spencer August Dugan “Prediction of wave-induced ship responses using tuned
transfer functions” (within the Joint Nordic Master for Maritime
Engineering program, co-supervisor).
18.
2020,
Frida Mattson “Numerical Study of Nonlinear Effects for the Wave-Induced
Drift Loads on an FPSO” (main supervisor).
19. 2020, Frode Moen
“Experimental Analysis of Sea-bass Hydrodynamics” (main supervisor).
20. 2020, Lars Thoresen
Haug “Hydrodynamic Study of ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Operations at
Net-based Fish Farms” (main supervisor).
21. 2019, Tianlei Miao, “Generation
of a full-envelope hydrodynamic database for hydrobatic AUVs”, from University
KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (co-supervisor).
22. 2019, Anni Yang
Christensen “Analysis of Vortex Induced
Motions for Floating Wind Turbines” (main supervisor).
23. Cecilie Vangdal
“Hydrodynamic study of offshore wind
turbines in extreme conditions” (main supervisor).
24. 2019, Ida Oline
Håberg “Foil Motion Control of
High-speed Catamarans” (main supervisor).
25. 2019, Karoline
Eriksen “Numerical investigation of a bottom–fixed
wind turbine in severe environmental conditions” (main supervisor).
26. 2019, Mildrid Sofie
Breivik Haga “Hydrodynamic challenges of floating
wind turbines in shallower depths” (main supervisor).
27. 2019, Simone Di Carlo
"Offshore floating wind turbines as sea state observers", from
University Politecnico di Milano
(co-supervisor).
28.
2019,
Michael C.E. Jensen “Numerical study on
roll damping, relevant for FPSO platforms“ (main supervisor).
29. 2018, Christopher
Lawrence “Higher Order Spectral method for
wave scenarios with nonlinear and
dispersive effects“(main supervisor).
30. 2017, Øyvind Rabliås,
“Development of a new Navier-Stokes
Solver using a Generalized HPC method for the Pressure Poisson Equation”
(main supervisor).
31. 2017, Andreas Grung
Svendsen “Hydrodynamic effects relevant for free falling lifeboat modelled with
compressible air” (main supervisor).
32. 2017, Simen Groth “Structural loads on a free-falling lifeboat”
(main supervisor).
33. 2017, Vegard Netland
“Hydrodynamic effects relevant for free-falling
lifeboats in wave conditions” (main supervisor).
34. 2017, David Hugh
Williams “Green-water phenomena for feed
barges in exposed sea areas” (main supervisor).
35. 2017, Julie Vadholm
“Numerical study on wave drift loading
on slender marine structures” (main supervisor).
36. 2016, Einar
Biørn-Hansen “Coupling of a 2D Boundary Element Method with a local analytical
solution to deal with geometrical
singularities” (main supervisor).
37. 2015, Arne Kristian
Sæther “An Experimental Investigation on Bio-Fouling
Induced Drag” (main supervisor).
38. 2015, Pauline Øien
“Physical investigation of slamming
loads on a 2D body” (main supervisor).
39. 2015, Wenbo Zhu
“Numerical wave tank for nonlinear waves
in various water depths” (main supervisor).
40. 2015, Ran Xiao
“Numerical investigation for the moment caused by shallow water sloshing under a transient roll motion” (agreement
with Aalto University, co-supervisor).
41. 2014, Sigve Håland ”Lowering and lifting operations through
moonpools: Hydrodynamic investigations” (main supervisor).
42. 2014, Torleif
Bertelsen ”Installation of large subsea
structures: Lowering of suction anchors through the splash zone” (main
supervisor).
43. 2013, Even Rosenlund
“Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Effects for Bottom-Fixed
Wind Turbines“(main supervisor).
44. 2013, Johannes
Joachim Kalevi Geyssel “Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Parametric Roll” (main supervisor).
45. 2013, Peter
Johannessen and Lars Otto Jordal ”Statistical
Analysis of Design Load for a Vessel: Slamming Loads” (main supervisor).
46. 2013, Yi Luo
”Numerical Investigation of Wave-Body
Interactions in Shallow Water” (main supervisor).
47. 2012, Line J.C.H.
Dahl, “Octabuoy concept and Spar Buoys:
non linear effects and analysis” (main supervisor).
48. 2012,
Marianne-Isabelle Falk and Thomas Skorpen “Dry
tree semisubmersible platform: coupling between the hydro-pneumatic riser
tensioning system, the risers and the hull (main supervisor).
49. 2012, Thea Spieler “Roll damping of an FPSO: towards a CFD
investigation of the problem (main supervisor).
50. 2012, Nikolai
Gustavsen “Global analysis of floating
bridge” (co-supervisor).
Supervision of internships
As
NTNU professor, supervisor of internships at NTNU of MSc/PhD students from
abroad:
1. NTNU supervisor of a two-month
internship of a MSc student, Romain Garat, from the French University L’École
Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA Paris). Internship topic: “Experimentation
of a wake form sensing system with a test cylinder”. The student performed
the internship at the Dept. of Marine Technology of NTNU in close collaboration
with PhD candidate Casper Potter. From: 03/06/2024 - To: 09/08/2024.
2. NTNU supervisor of a
four-month internship, part of “Tesi su proposta” (Thesis under proposal)
project, of a MSc student, Francesco De Marinis, from the Italian University
Politecnico di Torino. Internship on hydrodynamic studies relevant for the
student’s MSc thesis: " Advancements in wave energy conversion: a numerical analysis
of the C4 CorPower WEC’s dynamic response in various wave scenarios" with
main supervisor Prof. Giovanni Bracco and with M. Greco an official
co-supervisor. From: 16/10/2023 - To: 29/02/2024.
3. NTNU supervisor of a
three-month internship within ERASMUS programme of a MSc student, Tommaso Ciancabilla,
from the Italian University of Perugia. Internship on hydrodynamic studies on Energy harvesting device in water current.
From: 10/08/2023 - To: 10/12/2023.
4. NTNU primary
technical contact of a two-week internship within under the auspices of the
Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2018-01-3739, Decision Support
System for Green and Safe Ship Routing (DESSERT) of a PhD student, Ivan
Sulovsky, from the University of Rijeka, Croatia. Internship on hydrodynamic
studies on “CFD methods for marine applications” relevant for the student’s PhD
work " with main supervisor Prof. Jasna Prpic-Orsic. September 2022.
5. NTNU supervisor of a
three-month internship within ERASMUS programme of a MSc student, Simone Di
Carlo, from the Italian University Politecnico di Milano. Internship on
hydrodynamic studies relevant for the student’s MSc thesis: "Offshore floating wind turbine as a sea
state observer" with main supervisor Prof. Marco Belloli. From: 13/08/2018
- To: 18/12/2018.
6. NTNU supervisor of a
one-month internship of a MSc student, Robson Costa Santiago, from the
Brazilian Federal University of ABC. Internship on experimental studies and
analysis of an underwater-water vehicle
near the free surface. From: 10/05/2018 - To: 10/06/2018.
7.
NTNU
supervisor of a three-month internship of a MSc student, Anna Wolski, from the
French University ENSTA ParisTech. Internship topic: “Experimental
investigation of booms in multiphase
flows: design of 2D sloshing tests and preliminary results. The student
started the internship at the Dept. of Marine Technology of NTNU and completed
performing model tests on a sloshing tank at CNR-INSEAN. From: 14/05/2014 - To:
14/07/2014.
Supervision
of researchers
As INSEAN
researcher, she was responsible and scientific supervisor for the research of
employees hired with temporary contract at INSEAN to perform theoretical and
numerical studies on problems with free-surface flows of practical interest in
the Naval and Coastal Engineering:
1. Benjamin Bouscasse. From: 11/05/2007
To: 31/12/2007
2. Benjamin Bouscasse. From: 22/01/2007 To:
30/04/2007
3. Giuseppina Colicchio. From: 02/05/2006
To: 31/12/2006
4. David
Letouzé. From: 23/01/2006 To: 31/03/2006
5. Giuseppina
Colicchio. From:
25/01/2006 To: 30/04/2006
6. Luca Greco. From: 24/01/2005 To:
31/12/2005
7. Giuseppina
Colicchio. From: 21/05/2004 To: 31/12/2004
8. Mario
Felli. From:
08/03/2004 To: 10/09/2004
9. Andrea Colagrossi. From: 21/01/2004 To:
29/04/2004
10. Giuseppina Colicchio. From: 21/01/2004 To:
29/04/2004
Tutoring
activities
2003-2010: Visiting researcher and affiliated scientist at the Norwegian
Centre of Excellence CeSOS, NTNU, Trondheim, in the period between 2003 and
2010, for 6 months each year. This was as a part of the two INSEAN-CeSOS
contracts: “Green Water Events and Related Structural Loads” and “Violent
Water-Vessel Interactions and Related Structural Loads”. Until 2008, she was a
visiting researcher and from 2008 to 2010 she was adjunct professor (professor
II). During her staying at the Centre, she tutored Ph.D students working on the
development of numerical hydrodynamic tools for ships and offshore structures.
2003: As INSEAN researcher, co-tutor of the
master theses and research activities of 3 Italian students of Mechanical and
Aeronautical Engineering of the University of Rome La Sapienza and of the
stages of 4 students from the French Engineering Universities ENSIETA (Brest)
and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Nantes). She was INSEAN responsible for the stage
of 2 of these students, Julien Touboul (MSc thesis: Numerical simulation of water exit of arbitrary bodies) and
Benjamin Bouscasse (Msc thesis: 3-D
free-decay roll motion tests), Administrative order N. 1107 of 09/07/2003
by INSEAN General Director.
D. Examiner and Reviewer Activities
Assessment
of MSc and PhD students
2014-: Co-examiner of students for the PhD
course MR8300 “Hydrodynamic
Aspects of Marine Structures I” at the Dept. of Marine Technology, Univ. NTNU.
2011-: Co-examiner of students for the MSc
course TMR4217 “Hydrodynamics of high-speed marine vehicles” at the Dept. of
Marine Technology, Univ. NTNU.
2010-: Examiner of students for the MSc course
TMR4215 “Sea Loads” at the Dept. of Marine Technology, Univ. NTNU.
Committee member: PhD committees and reviewed PhD
theses/research reviewer
2024: Opponent in the PhD
committee for the thesis “Chao Tong: A high-order adaptive harmonic
polynomial cell method with immersed boundaries for weakly/fully nonlinear
wave-structure interaction simulations” at the Technical University of Denmark,
Denmark.
2022: Reviewer for the PhD
thesis “Xingwen Zheng: Flow-sensing mechanisms and biomimetic
potential of seal whiskers” at the University of Groningen, The Netherland.
2022: Examiner in the PhD
committee for the thesis “Paul Landesman: Simulation of wave-structure
interaction by a two-way coupling between a fully nonlinear potential flow
model and a Navier-Stokes solver” at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France.
2021: Opponent in the PhD
committee for the thesis “Jacob Bjarke Hansen Hicks: Development of a high-order
potential flow solver for nonlinear wave-structure interaction” at the
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
2020: Referee in the PhD
committee for the thesis “Fabien Robaux: Numerical simulation of wave-body
interaction: development of a fully nonlinear potential flow solver and
assessment of two local coupling strategies with a CFD solver” at the Aix
Marseille University, France.
2018-2019: Reviewer for the PhD
thesis “Xiantao Zhang: A two-dimensional investigation of greenwater overtopping of simplified vessels” from University of
Western Australia.
2018: Reviewer for the PhD thesis “Filippo
Nelli: Experimental and numerical modelling of wave dissipation due to sea ice” from Australian Swinburne
University of Technology.
2017: Reviewer for the PhD thesis “Shri.D
Vamshi Krishna: Studies on vortex
induced responses of marine riser and moored semisubmersible” from Indian
Institute of Technology Madras.
2017: Reviewer for the PhD thesis “Andrea
Bardazzi: Wave impact in sloshing flows:
hydroelasticity in shallow water
condition” from Italian University of Rome “Sapienza”.
2015: Reviewer for the University of Calabria
of a research grant holder.
2015: Reviewer for the Academy of Finland of an
application of research infrastructures.
2013-2014: Reviewer and first
opponent in the PhD committee for the thesis “Arne Bøckmann: Novel developments
in the simulation of free surface flows,
with applications to marine and offshore engineering” at the Dept. of
Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway.
2009-2024: Administrator and
member in 17 PhD committees connected with studies in marine hydrodynamics.
Dept. of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway.
Committee member: Positions
in universities and research institutes
2025: Committee member for
a position of Head of Department. Dept. of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway.
2024: Committee member and
administrator for a position of full professor/associate professor in marine
structures. Dept. of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway.
2023-2024: Reviewer for the
scientific assessment of an associate professor for promotion to professor in
Fluid-Structure Interaction. Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
2022: Committee member for
a position of senior researcher in Green Shipping. Technical University of
Denmark (DTU), Denmark.
2022: Committee member for
a position of associate professor in Fluid Mechanics. Oslo Metropolitan
University, Norway.
2021: Committee member for
a position of Head of Department. Dept. of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway.
2020: Committee member for
a position of adjunct professor in offshore wind energy. University of Bergen,
Norway.
2020: Committee member for
a position of associate professor in offshore wind energy. University of
Bergen, Norway.
2019: Committee member and
administrator for a position of full professor/associate professor in marine
hydrodynamics. Dept. of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway.
2017: Committee member for a public competition
for one permanent researcher contract. The position was for CNR-INSEAN, Marine
Technology Research Institute, Italy.
2015: Committee member for a public competition
for one temporary contract of research collaborator. The position was for
INSEAN – The Italian Ship Model Basin, Italy
2007: Committee president for a public
competition for a temporary contract of research collaborator. The position was
for the INSEAN – The Italian Ship Model Basin, Italy.
2004: Committee member and secretary to assess
the improvement of professional level of certain categories of INSEAN
employees. INSEAN – The Italian Ship
Model Basin, Italy.
2002: Committee member for a public competition
for one permanent technical collaborator for Research Institutes. The position
was for INSEAN – The Italian Ship Model Basin, Italy.
Committee member: Evaluation
panels, selection, and steering committees
2024-2026: Deputy Member of the Norwegian Shipping
Association's Fund at NTNU.
Marine
Technology Department (IMT), Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology,
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
2023-: Executive-Committee member for the
International Conference on Hydrodynamics (ICHD).
2023-2026: Steering-Committee
member for Project “SEAWORTHY – Hydrodynamic aspects of green shipping”.
Leader: SINTEF Ocean, Norway.
2022: Evaluation-panel member for “Periodic
study programme evaluation marine technology NTNU 2022”, Dept. of Marine
Technology, NTNU, Norway.
2021-2025: Member of the Marine
Technology Department council.
Marine
Technology Department (IMT), Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology,
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
2015-: Selection committee member for the
screening of marine-hydrodynamic papers submitted to the annual Moan-Faltinsen
Best Paper Award for PhD students.
Peer reviewer and editor activities
2025: Scientific-Committee member for NAV 2025: 21st International
Conference on
Ships and Maritime Research. (https://www.atenanazionale.org/nav/nav2025/)
2024-: Editorial-Board member for Applied Ocean Research.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/applied-ocean-research/about/editorial-board)
2024: Editorial-Board member for the 26th Symposium on Theory and
Practice of Shipbuilding (SORTA)
2017-: Associate editor for Journal of Fluids and Structures.
(https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-fluids-and-structures/editorial-board).
This journal serves as a focal point and a forum for the exchange of ideas, for
the many kinds of specialists and practitioners concerned with fluid–structure
interactions and the dynamics of systems related thereto, in any field. One of
its aims is to foster the cross–fertilization of ideas, methods and techniques
in the various disciplines involved. The journal publishes papers that present
original and significant contributions on all aspects of the mechanical
interactions between fluids and solids, regardless of scale. Journal
Metrics: Impact Factor (2019) = 3.184.
5-Year Impact Factor= 2.874. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.24. H-index= 96.
Quartiles (Mechanical Engineering)=1.
2007-: Referee for peer-reviewed conferences
(e.g. OMAE) and for international journals, some of which leading journals in
fluid dynamics, marine hydrodynamics and other fields. Their list is provided here, in alphabetic
order:
1.
Advanced Science
2.
Applied Ocean Research
3.
Computers and Fluids
4.
Engineering and Computational Mechanics
5.
European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids
6.
International Journal of Offshore and
Polar Engineering
7.
Journal of Applied Mathematics
8.
Journal of Computational Physics
9.
Journal of Engineering Mathematics
10.
Journal of Fluid and Structures
11.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
12.
Journal of Marine Science and Application
13.
Journal of Marine Science and Technology
14.
Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean
Engineering
15.
Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine
Energy
16.
Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic
Engineering
17.
Journal of Ship Research
18.
Marine Structures
19.
Marine Systems & Ocean Technology
Journal
20.
Naval Engineers Journal
21.
Ocean Engineering
22.
Physics of Fluids
23.
Ships and Offshore Structures
24.
Water
E. Organizer Activities for Scientific Events
2024:
Co-organizer with Prof. L.E. Holmedal and Prof. S. Steen of the Symposium
“Future perspectives on Marine Hydrodynamics and Structural Mechanics” to
celebrate 80 years of Professors O. M. Faltinsen and T. Moan. Eight very
acknowledged international speakers were invited to the Event with about 100
registered attendants.
2007:
Co-organizer with Prof. O.M. Faltinsen of the Workshop “CFD Solvers for
Unsteady Marine Applications: Capabilities and Challenges” under the support of
the Centre of Excellence CeSOS, Norway (available online at
http://www.cesos.ntnu.no/cesos/activities/workshops/ CFD/index.php).
2006: Member of
the organizing committee for the 26th international “Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics”
connected with the U.S. Navy- Office of Naval Research (ONR) and arranged in
Rome under the management of INSEAN. The participants were 154.
F. Recognitions of Scientific Expertise and
Awards
2023-2026: Steering-Committee member.
Project “SEAWORTHY – Hydrodynamic aspects of green
shipping”. Leader: SINTEF Ocean, Norway.
2023: Feature paper.
Siddiqui M.A.,
Hanssen F-C. W., Greco M., Anda E., 2023, Comparing the Utility of Coupled
Aero-Hydrodynamic Analysis Using a CFD Solver versus a Potential Flow Solver
for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Energies 16 (23), 7833.
Co-author of paper
selected as feature paper in “Energies”. Feature papers represent the most
advanced research with significant potential for high impact in the field.
2022: Top downloaded paper.
Hanssen F-C. W.,
Helmers J.B., Greco M., Shao Y., 2022, A 3D fully-nonlinear potential-flow
solver for efficient simulations of large-scale free-surface waves,
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 124.
Co-author of paper
that received Wiley’s official recognition as one of the most downloaded during
its first 12 months of publication.
2022: Working-group
member.
Member of a NTNU-Salmar Aker Ocean-SINTEF Ocean working
group aimed to write a Strategic Document on priorities towards 2040 for
Offshore Aquaculture.
2021-2022: Specially Appointed Professor (Honorary
position).
Division
of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering - OSAKA University. This
position has been established through an agreement between the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology and the Osaka university. Duration: April
2021 – March 2022.
2019: Outstanding Reviewer of the Year.
Recognized as
“Outstanding Reviewer of the Year” for the ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics
and Arctic Engineering (JOMAE).
2017: Best paper.
Co-author of best
paper in marine hydrodynamics for the Moan-Faltinsen Award. This is dedicated
to Professors Torgeir Moan and Odd M. Faltinsen and is meant to award young
students or researchers for their outstanding research work, to recognize their
academic contributions and to encourage the young generation to pursue
high-level research in the field of marine technology.
2014-2028: Qualification as Full Professor in
Italy.
She got the
qualification as Full Professor in the Italian University System (MIUR) in
Aeronautical, Aero-spatial and Naval engineering (09/A1 – I Fascia, https:
//abilitazione.cineca.it/ministero.php/public/esitoAbilitati/settore/09%252FA1/fascia/1).
This has
been extended until 2020.
2012: Awarded by Norwegian
Research Council (NRC).
NRC awarded M. Greco, together with other five key scientists, for
the establishment and management of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for
Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (NTNU AMOS). After five years, NTNU
AMOS has been prolonged for additional five years. It is worldwide recognized
as a leading research centre in marine operations.
2011: Selected as Key Scientist of a Research Centre.
The Faculty of Engineering Science and
Technology of the University NTNU, Trondheim, chose M. Greco as key scientist
for her knowledge in Marine Hydrodynamics. She was asked to cooperate with
other five key scientists with expertise in Structural Mechanics, Guidance
Systems, Navigation and Sensor Systems, and Control and Optimization, in
creating a new multi and interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence in Trondheim.
The Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems, NTNU AMOS, has been
accepted in November 2012, launched in 2013 and is ongoing.
2010-2015: Member of MarHub – a
global maritime knowledge hub.
MarHub's main objective is to help make
the Norwegian maritime sector a world-leading knowledge hub, to ensure
continuous skills development and to strengthen the competitiveness of
Norwegian companies, thereby attracting key global maritime players. M. Greco
was a member of MarHub because her position as professor in marine
hydrodynamics in NTNU's Department of Marine Technology is one of the funded
professorships within the Global Maritime Knowledge Hub. In particular, it was
funded for the first five years by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), one of the
sponsors of MarHub.
2010: First female professor at the Department of Marine Technology,
NTNU.
This position was funded for the
five-year funding by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), within the MarHub – a global maritime knowledge hub.
2009: Documentation of research in academic books.
Professors O.M. Faltinsen
and A.N. Timokha mention part of her research findings in connection with
impact and green-water phenomena in the book "Sloshing" (2009). She
also performed a quality check for parts of the book.
2008: Commendation by ODG N. 7525 in 01/04/2008
of the INSEAN President.
The motivation was:
"Ricercatrice che, grazie alle sue non comuni doti professionali e
culturali, alla sua predisposizione alla didattica ed al suo carattere
determinato, ha saputo farsi apprezzare e stimare nell’ambito della Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU), così da risultare vincitrice del
concorso per l incarico di professore aggiunto in Marine Technology
(Computational Marine Hydrodynamics) per il periodo 01/01/2008 31/01/2013. La
dott.ssa GRECO ha contribuito, con questo splendido risultato, ad accrescere il
prestigio e l immagine dell INSEAN nel contesto internazionale”.
2007: Offer to
become adjunct professor (professor II).
M. Greco received the offer to become adjunct professor at the
Dept. of Marine Technology of NTNU, Trondheim, from the Dean, after the
recommendation and funding offered by the Centre of Excellence. The position
was for activities of teaching, tutoring and examiner of PhD students. This
offer was open only to her and involved the need of a formal examination as for
standard professorships competitions. She became adjunct professor in February 2008
and renounced to the position after becoming full professor at NTNU in January
2010 with a five-year funding from Det Norske Veritas (DNV).
2005: Documentation of research in academic books.
Professor O.M.
Faltinsen mentions part of her research findings in connection with impact and
green-water phenomena in the book “Hydrodynamics of high-speed marine vehicles”
(2005). She also performed a quality check for parts of the book.
G. Invited Lecturer in
Workshops/Conferences/Communication Events
2024: Greco M, Green Water - An environmentally-friendly name for a
potentially-dangerous phenomenon, 7th
RWWWFB (Regular Webinar of Water Waves and Floating Bodies), held online.
2022: Greco M, Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities in Marine Technology, invited speaker for 64th Hydro-Seminar, Graduate
School of Engineering - Osaka University, held online.
2021: Greco M, Wave induced hydroelastic ship response, invited
lecture for SUSTAINABLE SHIP AND SHIPPING 4.0 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master
Degree, held online (https://www.master-seas40.unina.it).
2017: Sørensen A.J., Pettersen K.Y., Greco M.,
Fossen T.I., Be
Inspired by NTNU AMOS: Conquering the sea with the use of autonomous systems
and robots, invited presentation and
communication for the dissemination event Excellent looking for
excellent: NTNU Centres of
Excellence and Aker Scholarship for inspiring NTNU students, Trondheim, Norway
(https://innsida.ntnu.no/kalender/detaljer/-/event/bd52cf88-d431-3006-9417-9c47f80d9d56 ).
2017: Greco, M., Hydrodynamics highlights from NTNU AMOS ongoing research, invited
presentation and communication at Ocean Week, Trondheim, Norway (http://oceanweek.no/speakers/).
2013: Greco, M., Green Water on Ships Decks, invited presentation and communication
at the Conference on “CeSOS Highlights and AMOS Visions”, Trondheim, Norway
(available online at http://www.cesos.ntnu.no/centre-activities/presentations-from-the-cesosamos-conference-2013).
2007: Colicchio, G., Greco, M., A Domain Decomposition Strategy for Unsteady
Interfacial Flows: Why and How CFD Solvers for Unsteady Marine Applications:
Capabilities and Challenges, invited presentation and communication shared
with Dr. Giuseppina Colicchio at the International Workshop on “CFD Solvers for
Unsteady Marine Applications: Capabilities and Challenges”, Trondheim, Norway (http://www.cesos.ntnu.no/cesos/activities/workshops/CFD/index.php).
Carrier
Breaks
2014-2015: Maternity leave, with three months of
100% leave and then five months of 80% leave.