- Distinguished Professor and Chair, Ocean Engineering
- Ocean Engineering
- Phone: 401.874.6636
- Email: grilli@uri.edu
- Office Location: 111 Sheets
- Website
Research
- Coastal engineering (nearshore wave modeling and experiments, wave-structure-bottom interactions, wave breaking, freak waves, wave-induced sediment transport, coastal storm and tsunami impact, geohazards)
- Numerical modeling of ship waves, naval hydrodynamics
- Numerical modeling (Boundary Element Method; Lattice Boltzmann Method)
- Porous and random media flows, multi-phase flows
- Underwater acoustic propagation/instrumentation
Education
- Ph.D. in Hydraulic/Ocean Engineering, University of Liège (Belgium), 1985
- M.S. in Oceanography, University of Liège (Belgium), 1983
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Liège (Belgium), 1980