Renato Vacondio

4.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Renato Vacondio is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Renato Vacondio has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Computational Mechanics, 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Renato Vacondio's work include Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (38 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (21 papers) and Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (20 papers). Renato Vacondio is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (38 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (21 papers) and Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (20 papers). Renato Vacondio collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Renato Vacondio's co-authors include Paolo Mignosa, Benedict D. Rogers, José M. Domínguez, Peter Stansby, Susanna Dazzi, Alejandro Crespo, M. Gómez‐Gesteira, Alessandro Dal Palù, Alessia Ferrari and Ricardo B. Canelas and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Water Resources Research and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Renato Vacondio

65 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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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.

DualSPHysics: Open-source parallel CFD solver based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)

2014 614 citations Alejandro Crespo, José M. Domínguez et al. Computer Physics Communications profile →
Grand challenges for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics numerical schemes

2020 178 citations Renato Vacondio, Corrado Altomare et al. Computational Particle Mechanics profile →
Modified dynamic boundary conditions (mDBC) for general-purpose smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH): application to tank sloshing, dam break and fish pass problems

2021 143 citations José M. Domínguez, Renato Vacondio et al. Computational Particle Mechanics profile →

Peers

Renato Vacondio

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Paolo Mignosa Italy

Yves Zech Belgium

Michele Guala United States

J. Murillo Spain

Hervé Capart Taiwan

Valentin Heller United Kingdom

Songdong Shao United Kingdom

Orlando García-Feal Spain

Nikolaos D. Katopodes United States

Scott Draper Australia

Paolo Mignosa Italy

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GPC

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Renato Vacondio

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fourtakas, Georgios, Renato Vacondio, & Benedict D. Rogers. (2025). Divergence cleaning for weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Computers & Fluids. 295. 106638–106638. 4 indexed citations

Ferrari, Alessia, et al.. (2025). Brief communication: Hydrological and hydraulic investigation of the extreme September 2024 flood on the Lamone River in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(7). 2473–2479. 1 indexed citations

Ricci, Francesco, Renato Vacondio, José M. Domínguez, & Angelantonio Tafuni. (2025). Three-dimensional variable resolution for multi-scale modeling in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Computer Physics Communications. 313. 109609–109609. 6 indexed citations

Dazzi, Susanna, et al.. (2025). FloodSformer: A transformer-based data-driven model for predicting the 2-D dynamics of fluvial floods. Environmental Modelling & Software. 193. 106599–106599.

Lind, Steven, et al.. (2023). Large eddy simulations of bubbly flows and breaking waves with smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 972. 6 indexed citations

Ferrari, Alessia, Renato Vacondio, & Paolo Mignosa. (2023). High-resolution 2D shallow water modelling of dam failure floods for emergency action plans. Journal of Hydrology. 618. 129192–129192. 27 indexed citations

Domínguez, José M., Renato Vacondio, Alejandro Crespo, et al.. (2021). Modified dynamic boundary conditions (mDBC) for general-purpose smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH): application to tank sloshing, dam break and fish pass problems. Computational Particle Mechanics. 9(5). 1–15. 143 indexed citations breakdown →

Vacondio, Renato, et al.. (2021). Towards a High Order Convergent ALE-SPH Scheme with Efficient WENO Spatial Reconstruction. Water. 13(17). 2432–2432. 14 indexed citations

Tafuni, Angelantonio, José M. Domínguez, Georgios Fourtakas, et al.. (2020). DualSPHysics: from fluid dynamics to multiphysics problems. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 58 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Alessia, Susanna Dazzi, Renato Vacondio, & Paolo Mignosa. (2020). Enhancing the resilience to flooding induced by levee breaches in lowland areas: a methodology based on numerical modelling. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(1). 59–72. 40 indexed citations

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Palù, Alessandro Dal, et al.. (2019). A General Design for a Scalable MPI-GPU Multi-Resolution 2D Numerical Solver. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 31(5). 1036–1047. 9 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Alessia, Susanna Dazzi, Renato Vacondio, & Paolo Mignosa. (2019). A methodology based on numerical models for enhancing theresilience to flooding induced by levee breaches in lowland areas. 2 indexed citations

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Vacondio, Renato, et al.. (2019). An advanced study on discretization-error-based adaptivity in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Computers & Fluids. 198. 104388–104388. 8 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Alessia, Marco D’Oria, Renato Vacondio, et al.. (2018). Discharge hydrograph estimation at upstream-ungauged sections by coupling a Bayesian methodology and a 2-D GPU shallow water model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(10). 5299–5316. 8 indexed citations

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Fourtakas, Georgios, Renato Vacondio, Peter Stansby, et al.. (2018). Towards high-order 3-D Eulerian incompressible SPH for arbitrary geometries with generalised particle distributions. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 1 indexed citations

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D’Oria, Marco, Alessia Ferrari, Paolo Mignosa, Maria Giovanna Tanda, & Renato Vacondio. (2017). Reverse Flow Routing in a Bayesian Framework Using a GPU-accelerated 2D Shallow Water Model. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Dazzi, Susanna, Renato Vacondio, Alessandro Dal Palù, & Paolo Mignosa. (2017). A local time stepping algorithm for GPU-accelerated 2D shallow water models. Advances in Water Resources. 111. 274–288. 38 indexed citations

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Vacondio, Renato, Benedict D. Rogers, Peter Stansby, & Paolo Mignosa. (2015). Variable resolution for SPH in three dimensions: Towards optimal splitting and coalescing for dynamic adaptivity. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 300. 442–460. 80 indexed citations

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Crespo, Alejandro, José M. Domínguez, Benedict D. Rogers, et al.. (2014). DualSPHysics: Open-source parallel CFD solver based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). Computer Physics Communications. 187. 204–216. 614 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dazzi, Susanna, Renato Vacondio, & Paolo Mignosa. (2013). Preliminary Assessment of Flood Hazard Reduction Strategies: The Enza River. Proceedings of the IAHR World Congress. 40. 2974–2980. 1 indexed citations

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