Date of presentation: 29.05.2024
Speakers: Arnau Folch and Mattia De’ Michieli Vitturi
ChEESE CoE researchers Arnau Folch and Mattia De’ Michieli Vitturi present how the codes FALL3D and OpenPDAC can help public authorities in emergency circumstances requiring urgent action. While FALL3D models atmospheric consequences of volcano outbreaks including the dispersal and sedimentation of particles and ashes, OpenPDAC simulates phenomena (pyroclastic flows, ballistic ejecta) associated with phreatic explosions and occurring at a local scale. These kind of eruptions represent an important hazard, as testified by the recent events at Ontake (Japan) and White Island (new Zealand). In the framework of the ChEESE project the code OpenPDAC will be used for a first assessment of hazard from phreatic explosion at Vulcano island (Italy).