Ignazio Maria Viola

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ignazio Maria Viola is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ignazio Maria Viola has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 51 papers in Computational Mechanics and 47 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ignazio Maria Viola's work include Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability (39 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (24 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (24 papers). Ignazio Maria Viola is often cited by papers focused on Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability (39 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (24 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (24 papers). Ignazio Maria Viola collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and France. Ignazio Maria Viola's co-authors include Raffaele Ponzini, F. Fossati, Richard G.J. Flay, Patrick Bot, Naomi Nakayama, Cathal Cummins, Marco Evangelos Biancolini, Enrico Mastropaolo, Kiran Ramesh and Clive Greated and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ignazio Maria Viola

100 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Lecture notes in computational science and engineering 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Lecture notes in computational science and engineering
    2010 407 citations Ignazio Maria Viola, Raffaele Ponzini et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ignazio Maria Viola United Kingdom 22 776 750 518 247 168 106 1.7k
A.E.P. Veldman Netherlands 23 2.3k 2.9× 457 0.6× 340 0.7× 193 0.8× 87 0.5× 136 2.8k
Željko Tuković Croatia 21 1.1k 1.4× 328 0.4× 259 0.5× 142 0.6× 190 1.1× 49 1.9k
Jamaludin Mohd‐Yusof United States 13 1.5k 1.9× 257 0.3× 219 0.4× 162 0.7× 92 0.5× 26 2.0k
Hong Liu China 23 945 1.2× 878 1.2× 107 0.2× 94 0.4× 180 1.1× 163 1.9k
Guillaume Houzeaux Spain 29 1.1k 1.4× 231 0.3× 210 0.4× 209 0.8× 243 1.4× 139 2.5k
Jianming Yang United States 23 1.7k 2.2× 318 0.4× 362 0.7× 176 0.7× 371 2.2× 67 2.5k
Philippe Villedieu France 23 959 1.2× 805 1.1× 336 0.6× 43 0.2× 84 0.5× 96 1.8k
Suchuan Dong United States 30 2.2k 2.8× 405 0.5× 203 0.4× 490 2.0× 172 1.0× 94 3.0k
Dennis C. Jespersen United States 16 2.1k 2.7× 689 0.9× 128 0.2× 233 0.9× 228 1.4× 45 2.9k
Philippe Chatelain Belgium 24 1.1k 1.4× 714 1.0× 106 0.2× 262 1.1× 58 0.3× 113 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ignazio Maria Viola

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ignazio Maria Viola

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2025). Passive control of wing-tip vortices through a grooved-tip design. Experiments in Fluids. 66(11). 202–202.
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2025). An accelerating wind tunnel for testing untethered bodies in transverse gusts. Experiments in Fluids. 66(11). 205–205.
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2025). Mitigating unsteady loads at low Reynolds numbers using a passive trailing-edge flap. Journal of Fluids and Structures. 138. 104392–104392.
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2023). Mechanical Characterisation of Woven Pneumatic Active Textile. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(5). 2804–2811. 3 indexed citations
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Davey, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Model-scale experiments of passive pitch control for tidal turbines. Renewable Energy. 205. 10–29. 8 indexed citations
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Seale, Madeleine, Merel B. Soons, Cathal Cummins, et al.. (2022). Environmental morphing enables informed dispersal of the dandelion diaspore. eLife. 11. 11 indexed citations
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Cummins, Cathal, et al.. (2020). The dispersion of spherical droplets in source–sink flows and their relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic. Physics of Fluids. 32(8). 83302–83302. 36 indexed citations
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Bandiera, Lucia, Enzo Mangano, Jonathan R. Seckl, et al.. (2020). Face coverings and respiratory tract droplet dispersion: Face Covering Effectiveness. Royal Society Open Science. 7(12). 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Bing, et al.. (2018). Numerical investigation of vertical-axis tidal turbines with sinusoidal pitching blades. Ocean Engineering. 155. 75–87. 46 indexed citations
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2016). On the leading edge vortex of thin wings. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2 indexed citations
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2015). Wind direction forecasting with artificial neural networks and support vector machines. Ocean Engineering. 97. 65–73. 50 indexed citations
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Philpott, Andy, et al.. (2014). On risk attitude and optimal yacht racing tactics. Ocean Engineering. 90. 149–154. 17 indexed citations
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Bot, Patrick, Ignazio Maria Viola, Richard G.J. Flay, & J. F. Brett. (2014). Wind-tunnel pressure measurements on model-scale rigid downwind sails. Ocean Engineering. 90. 84–92. 25 indexed citations
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2013). On the uncertainty of CFD in sail aerodynamics. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 72(11). 1146–1164. 32 indexed citations
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2012). Upwind sail aerodynamics: A RANS numerical investigation validated with wind tunnel pressure measurements. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. 39. 90–101. 25 indexed citations
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Viola, Ignazio Maria & Raffaele Ponzini. (2011). A CFD investigation with high-resolution grids of downwind sail aerodynamics. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 4 indexed citations
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Viola, Ignazio Maria, et al.. (2010). Pressure measurements on full-scale and model-scale upwind sails. 2 indexed citations
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Viola, Ignazio Maria & Richard G.J. Flay. (2010). On-water pressure measurements on a modern asymmetric spinnaker. 2 indexed citations
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Viola, Ignazio Maria & Richard G.J. Flay. (2009). Force and pressure investigation of modern asymmetric spinnakers. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 151(1). 31–40. 17 indexed citations
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Zasso, Alberto, F. Fossati, & Ignazio Maria Viola. (2005). Twisted flow wind tunnel design for yacht aerodynamic studies. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 2 indexed citations

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