Faculty Directory
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Education
| Ph.D. | Oceanography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020) |
| M.S. | Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2014) |
| B.S. | Physics, Rio Grande do Norte State University (2012) |
Work Experience
| 2020 – 2024 | Research Fellow, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
Honors and Awards
- 2019-2020 J. Charles Morrow Marine Sciences Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research for Ph.D. Thesis
Selected Publications
- Jie ZHANG, Saulo MENDES, Michel BENOIT, Jerome KASPARIAN, Effect of shoaling length on rogue wave occurrence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024.
- Saulo MENDES, Nonlinear wave transformation over breakwaters of arbitrary slope, Applied Ocean Research, 2024.
- Saulo MENDES, A continuous non-ergodic theory for the wave set-up, European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, 2024.
- Saulo MENDES, Jerome KASPARIAN, Non-homogeneous approximation for the kurtosis evolution of shoaling rogue waves, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023.
- Saulo MENDES, Jerome KASPARIAN, Saturation of rogue wave amplification over steep shoals, Physical Review E, 2023.
- Saulo MENDES, Alberto SCOTTI, Maura BRUNETTI, Jerome KASPARIAN, Non-homogenous analysis of rogue wave probability evolution over a shoal, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022.
- Saulo MENDES, Alberto SCOTTI, The Rayleigh-Haring-Tayfun distribution of wave heights in deep water, Applied Ocean Research, 2021.
- Saulo MENDES, Alberto SCOTTI, Paul STANSELL, On the physical constraints for the exceeding probability of deep water rogue waves, Applied Ocean Research, 2021.
- Saulo MENDES, Alberto SCOTTI, Rogue wave statistics in (2+1) Gaussian seas I: Narrow-banded distribution, Applied Ocean Research, 2021.
Courses Taught (Recent 5 Years)
- Introduction to Oceanography
- Laboratory Physics
- Advanced Laboratory Physics
- Coastal Hydrodynamics Laboratory