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  1. Development of Dandelion-Inspired Drones: Dandidrones

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Marc Desmulliez, Ignazio Maria Viola

  2. Controlling tip vortices and cavitation through tip permeability for tidal turbines

    Article • Renewable Energy, January 2026, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  3. Role of preload in determining the performance enhancement of tidal turbines by passive pitch

    Article • Renewable Energy, January 2026, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  4. Scaling unsteady load alleviation in airfoils with flexible trailing-edges

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, November 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  5. Mitigating unsteady loads at low Reynolds numbers using a passive trailing-edge flap

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, November 2025, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  6. Hydrodynamics of Three Slender Models Resembling Pacific Canoe Hulls

    Article • Journal of Sailing Technology, October 2025, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  7. An accelerating wind tunnel for testing untethered bodies in transverse gusts

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  8. Passive control of wing-tip vortices through a grooved-tip design

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  9. Dandelion-Inspired Aerodynamics

    Article • October 2025, Cassyni

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  10. Porous plates at incidence

    Article • Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    CHANDAN BOSE, Ignazio Maria Viola

  11. Power and thrust control by passive pitch for tidal turbines

    Article • Renewable Energy, February 2025, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  12. Unsteady load mitigation through passive pitch

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, December 2024, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  13. A general framework for the design of efficient passive pitch systems

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  14. Influence of the tip speed ratio on the wake dynamics and recovery of axial-flow turbines

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Antonio Posa, Ignazio Maria Viola

  15. Water tunnel testing of downwind yacht sails

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  16. Combining Theodorsen's and impulse theories to predict the lift of large-amplitude pitching foils

    Article • December 2023, Cassyni

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  17. Mechanical Characterisation of Woven Pneumatic Active Textile

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  18. Model-scale experiments of passive pitch control for tidal turbines

    Article • Renewable Energy, March 2023, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  19. Vortex flow of downwind sails

    Article • Flow, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  20. Environmental morphing enables informed dispersal of the dandelion diaspore

    Article • eLife, November 2022, eLife

    Cathal Cummins, Ignazio Maria Viola

  21. Morphing Blades

    Article • International Marine Energy Journal, October 2022, European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  22. High-blockage corrections for circular arcs at transitional Reynolds numbers

    Article • Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, October 2022, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  23. Use of streamnormal forces within an array of tidal power harvesters

    Article • PLOS One, July 2022, PLOS

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  24. Mitigation of rotor thrust fluctuations through passive pitch

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, July 2022, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  25. Dynamic Detection of Flow Separation Using Integral Formulation of Unsteady Boundary Layer Equations

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Kiran Ramesh, Ignazio Maria Viola, CHANDAN BOSE

  26. Dandelion pappus morphing is actuated by radially patterned material swelling

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  27. Underwater LED-based Lagrangian particle tracking velocimetry

    Article • Journal of Visualization, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roman Gabl, Ignazio Maria Viola

  28. Flying seeds

    Article • Current Biology, March 2022, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  29. Usefulness of Inviscid Linear Unsteady Lifting-Line Theory for Viscous Large-Amplitude Problems

    Article • AIAA Journal, February 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ignazio Maria Viola, Dr Kiran Ramesh

  30. A Low Cost Oscillating Membrane for Underwater Applications at Low Reynolds Numbers

    Article • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  31. Turbulent flow around circular arcs

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  32. Morphing blades for tidal turbines: A theoretical study

    Article • Renewable Energy, January 2022, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  33. The force generation mechanism of lifting surfaces with flow separation

    Article • Ocean Engineering, November 2021, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  34. Unsteady load mitigation through a passive trailing-edge flap

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, October 2021, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  35. Dandelion pappus morphing is actuated by radially patterned material swelling

    Article • August 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  36. Which factors influence the extent of indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2? A rapid evidence review

    Article • Journal of Global Health, April 2021, Edinburgh University Global Health Society

    Roman Gabl, Ignazio Maria Viola

  37. The scales of the leading-edge separation bubble

    Article • Physics of Fluids, April 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  38. Leading Edge Vortex Formation on Finite Wings Using Vortex Particles

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ignazio Maria Viola, Dr Kiran Ramesh

  39. Face Coverings, Aerosol Dispersion and Mitigation of Virus Transmission Risk

    Article • IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Cathal Cummins, Ignazio Maria Viola, Roman Gabl

  40. Unsteady lift on a high-amplitude pitching aerofoil

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ignazio Maria Viola, Dr Kiran Ramesh

  41. Dispersal in the tree genus Zelkova represents a unique feature amongst all woody angiosperms.

    Article • American Journal of Botany, December 2020, Wiley

    Ignazio Maria Viola, Daniele Certini

  42. Face coverings and respiratory tract droplet dispersion

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, December 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  43. On the friction drag reduction mechanism of streamwise wall fluctuations

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, December 2020, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  44. Erratum: “The effect of permeability on the flow past permeable disks at low Reynolds numbers” [Phys. Fluids 29, 097103 (2017)]

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Cathal Cummins, Ignazio Maria Viola

  45. Face Coverings and Respiratory Tract Droplet Dispersion

    Article • August 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  46. The dispersion of spherical droplets in source–sink flows and their relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Cathal Cummins, Roman Gabl, Ignazio Maria Viola

  47. Unsteady hydrodynamics of tidal turbine blades

    Article • Renewable Energy, February 2020, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  48. Unsteady hydrodynamics of a full-scale tidal turbine operating in large wave conditions

    Article • Renewable Energy, December 2019, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  49. Active and passive in-plane wall fluctuations in turbulent channel flows

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  50. Moisture-dependent morphing tunes the dispersal of dandelion diaspores

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Cathal Cummins, Ignazio Maria Viola

  51. Modelling of hull roughness

    Article • Ocean Engineering, February 2019, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  52. A Geometrically Non-Linear Time-Domain Unsteady Lifting-Line Theory

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Kiran Ramesh, Ignazio Maria Viola

  53. On the nonlinear dynamics of self-sustained limit-cycle oscillations in a flapping-foil energy harvester

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, November 2018, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola, Dr Kiran Ramesh

  54. A separated vortex ring underlies the flight of the dandelion

    Article • Nature, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cathal Cummins, Daniele Certini, Ignazio Maria Viola

  55. The leading-edge vortex of yacht sails

    Article • Ocean Engineering, July 2018, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  56. Design principles of hair-like structures as biological machines

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, May 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Cathal Cummins, Ignazio Maria Viola

  57. A new method for including moving and deforming objects in a flow solver.

    Article • Computers & Mathematics with Applications, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor David Mark Ingram, Ignazio Maria Viola

  58. PROTEUS: A coupled iterative force-correction immersed-boundary multi-domain cascaded lattice Boltzmann solver

    Article • Computers & Mathematics with Applications, November 2017, Elsevier

    Professor David Mark Ingram, Ignazio Maria Viola

  59. The effect of permeability on the flow past permeable disks at low Reynolds numbers

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Cathal Cummins, Ignazio Maria Viola

  60. The leading-edge vortex of swift wing-shaped delta wings

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, August 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  61. A numerical method for the design of ships with wind-assisted propulsion

    Article • Ocean Engineering, September 2015, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  62. Wind direction forecasting with artificial neural networks and support vector machines

    Article • Ocean Engineering, March 2015, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  63. Detached Eddy Simulation of a sailing yacht

    Article • Ocean Engineering, November 2014, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  64. Wind-tunnel pressure measurements on model-scale rigid downwind sails

    Article • Ocean Engineering, November 2014, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  65. Trim effect on the resistance of sailing planing hulls

    Article • Ocean Engineering, September 2014, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  66. Recent Advances in Sailing Yacht Aerodynamics

    Article • Applied Mechanics Reviews, July 2013, ASME International

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  67. On the uncertainty of CFD in sail aerodynamics

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, February 2013, Wiley

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  68. Upwind sail aerodynamics: A RANS numerical investigation validated with wind tunnel pressure measurements

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, February 2013, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  69. Sail Aerodynamics: On-Water Pressure Measurements on a Downwind Sail

    Article • Journal of Ship Research, December 2012, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  70. Sail aerodynamics: Understanding pressure distributions on upwind sails

    Article • Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, November 2011, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  71. Sail pressures from full-scale, wind-tunnel and numerical investigations

    Article • Ocean Engineering, November 2011, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  72. Full-scale pressure measurements on a Sparkman and Stephens 24-foot sailing yacht

    Article • Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, December 2010, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  73. Analysis of Aerodynamic Indices for Racing Sailing Yachts: a Computational Study and Benchmark on up to 128 CPUs.

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ignazio Maria Viola

  74. Downwind sail aerodynamics: A CFD investigation with high grid resolution

    Article • Ocean Engineering, September 2009, Elsevier

    Ignazio Maria Viola