Research
Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Core research facilities.
Research
Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Core research facilities.
Architectural Fluid Mechanics Lab
The Architectural Fluid Mechanics Laboratory specializes in research involving:
The Coastal Hydraulics laboratory focuses on:
The Computational Hydraulics lab develops accurate, efficient, robust and usable high performance computational models of coastal ocean hydrodynamics and transport that can be applied to real engineering problems:
The Structural Dynamics and Monitoring Laboratory is a teaching and research facility dedicated to furthering the understanding of dynamic effects on structures and strategies for their mitigation.
DYNAMO research projects emphasize a multi-disciplinary approach to engineering research and education, synthesizing bench-scale experiments, innovative analysis and simulation techniques, advanced sensor technologies, cyber-infrastructure and full-scale/field study.
The Groundwater Hydrology Laboratory is headed by Dr. Stephen E. Silliman.
The Computational Hydraulics lab quantifies the load effects caused by various natural hazards on structures, developing innovative strategies to mitigate and manage their effects.
The NatHaz Modeling Laboratory is associated with the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences and is directed by Dr. Ahsan Kareem.
The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Atmosphere-Ocean Laboratory deals with computational modeling and field measurements of geophysical flows, especially flows in deep and costal oceans as well as urban atmospheric settings. Of particular interest are the flows in complex terrain, atmospheric boundary layer, upper atmospheric turbulence, dispersion in the environment, internal and surface waves in oceans and oceanic microstructure. The laboratory maintains a suite of equipment for atmospheric and oceanic measurements. These instruments include state-of-the-art remote and in-situ measurement systems several of which were developed in house. The laboratory is heavily involved in both large and small scale field measurement campaigns domestically and abroad.
The Stratified and Rotating Flow Laboratory is headed by Dr. Joe Fernando.
