Meet the group
Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Faculty and staff.
Meet the group
Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Faculty and staff.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2007
Environmental fluid dynamics (analytical, experimental and laboratory): transport and reactive flows in heterogeneous porous media; multiphase flows in porous media (related to CO2 sequestration); buoyancy driven flows; mixing; sustainable building ventilation; contaminant transport in low energy ventilated spaces; risk analysis; vortex rings.
Wayne and Diana Murdy Professor
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1983
Fluid mechanics; specifically turbulence in homogeneous, stratified, and rotating flows; double-diffusive phenomena; multiphase flows; oceanic and atmospheric flows, especially boundary layers and transport processes; industrial fluid mechanics; energy storage and extraction, urban air pollution; sustainability engineering, remote sensing.
Robert M. Moran Professor
Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1978
Aerodynamics; wind effects; fluid-structure interactions; Boundary layer, gust front and hurricane winds; turbulence stochastic simulation; computational wind engineering; wave-structure interactions; natural hazards; liquid sloshing; wind energy.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Monash University, Australia, 1998
Coastal engineering; theoretical, computational and experimental techniques for nearshore waves, currents, and storm surge; coastal geomorphology; development and use of remote sensing techniques in the coastal zone.
Associate Chair and Linbeck Collegiate Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2003
Time-frequency signal analysis, full-scale monitoring of wind fields and contaminant transport, wind-structure interactions, stochastic analyses, tsunami impacts on civil infrastructure, cyber-collaboratories and virtual organizations.
Research Professor
Ph.D. Russian Academy of Sciences, 1975
Physical oceanography; oceanic turbulence, microstructure, fine structure; nonlinear internal waves; ocean and coastal ocean boundary layers; air-sea interaction and corresponding mixing in the oceanic upper turbulent layer; nonlinear internal waves and turbulence in shallow marginal seas; turbulence closure for stratified flows using field data and laboratory experiments.
Associate Chair and Professor
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 1985
Groundwater hydrology flow/transport; water resources in developing countries; numerical, laboratory and field studies; water source protection and management; groundwater/surface water interaction.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 2008
Modeling uncertainty; robust analysis and design of high-performance systems; reliability-based design, life-cycle cost optimization and structural control and health monitoring; protection of base-isolated structures from near-fault earthquakes; reliability-based optimization of controlled systems; design of a grid of oscillating buoys for wave-energy harvesting; risk evaluation for hurricane inundation.
Assistant Research Professor
Ph.D. Chuo University, 2006
Computational fluid dynamics; finite element methods; Navier-Stokes solutions; free surface flows with moving boundaries; coastal ocean circulation; hurricane storm surge modeling; massively parallel computing.
Research Professor
Ph.D. Russian Academy of Sciences, 1980
Oceanography; fluid mechanics; experimental and theoretical dynamics and interactions of vortex structures in stratified/rotating fluids; analytical solutions for basic structures; mathematical and numerical models of vortex structure interactions and experimental verification; applications to geophysical turbulence, oceanic vortex structures, mixing and transport phenomena in stratified/rotating flows; jet/wake dynamics.
Professor
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
Computational fluid mechanics; finite element methods; modeling of circulation and transport in coastal seas and oceans; tidal hydrodynamics; hurricane storm surge prediction; geophysical turbulence modeling; numerical modeling of the convection-diffusion and Navier-Stokes equations; environmental fluid mechanics.
Assistant Research Professor
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2007
Computational fluid mechanics; numerical modeling of the convection-diffusion and Navier-Stokes equations; discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods; modeling of circulation and transport in coastal seas and oceans.
Assistant Research Professor
Ph.D. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2002
Modeling of atmospheric flows; human health and pollution; mesoscale processes and their influence on the large scales; air emissions and air quality; computational fluid dynamics; wind energy
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. Tel Aviv University, Israel
Turbulent Flows; Water waves and modeling of marine structures; Numerical investigation of bifurcation phenomena; Vortex dynamics
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. Tel Aviv University, Israel
Fluid mechanics; Physical oceanography, especially wind-waves coupling, energy transport and wind to wave energy transfer mechanisms, wind induced water currents; Ocean boundary layers; Experimental fluid mechanics, two phase flows, boundary layer turbulence, data acquisition automation.
Visiting Professor
CB, MA, Ph.D, FIMA, FRS Cambridge University
Experimental and theoretical research in magnetohydrodynamics; Air polution dispersion models; Urban meteorology; turbulent and stratified flows; Wind energy; ocean-atmosphere dynamics
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. University of Salento,Lecce
Modeling of turbulent flows in atmospheric boundary layers; Urban fluid dynamics; Air polution dynamics
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. Arizona State University
Free surface flows; Modeling of flood hazards and risk mitigation; Modeling complex thermal systems; spectral methods and programming
Research Engineer
B.S.EE Michigan Technological University
Embedded systems design and programming; Mechanical and electrical prototype design and fabrication; Laboratory test equipment design, instrumentation, signal conditioning and data acquisition systems.
