Wave Lab Staff |
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HWRL Related Interests |
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Director |
Physical and numerical modelling of wave generation and propagation, wave-structure interaction, stability of coastal and submarine structures, behavior of floating structures, hydrodynamics, and non-linear propagation of long-waves in shallow waters. |
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Faculty Research Associate |
Laboratory research and testing of: coastal engineering and nearshore processes; tsunamis and coastal hazards; wave and renewable energy sources; sediment transport by currents, waves, and turbulence. |
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Faculty Research Associate |
Physical and numerical modelling of ocean wave energy converters and instrumentation of physical models of coastal/nearshore structures and marine renewable devices to be tested in the laboratory. | |
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Civil & Construction Engineering |
Provides fabrication, rigging, problem solving related to wave lab research and testing projects. |
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Lab/Research Manager
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Provides engineering and technical support related to wave lab instrumentation. |
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Affiliated Faculty |
Name |
Position |
HWRL Related Interests |
Professor |
Director of NNMREC; subject matter expert in computational methods for controlling and optimizing distributed parameter systems, mathematical modeling, numerical analysis, and dynamics and control of autonomous vehicles and wave energy devices. |
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Assistant Professor
Civil & Construction Engineering
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Professor Civil & Construction Engineering |
Coastal Engineering, mitigation of coastal hazards including coastal flooding from waves and surge and from tsunamis. Wave loads on structures, coastal erosion and scour, natural and nature-based solutions to coastal hazards. | |
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Associate Professor Civil & Construction Engineering |
Remote sensing of wave transformation processes, especially related to wave/current interaction and hazardous wave conditions. Other efforts include rip current dynamics and quantifying the physical effects of wave energy converter arrays. | |
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Professor
Civil & Construction Engineering
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Performance of structures subjected to hydraulic and other loads. | |
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Professor |
Optical imaging of wave and turbulent processes; combined numerical and experimental studies of wave and surge processes. | |
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Professor Emeritus |
Swash and inundation processes; bore-bore capture; the use of optical remote sensing for making nearshore measurements. | |
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Professor
Civil & Construction Engineering
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Performance of structural steel building components (e.g., connections, frames, cladding, secondary members) subjected to hydraulic and other loads. | |
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Professor Civil & Construction Engineering |
Numerical, field and analytical investigations of water motions in the nearshore zone (depth of 10 meters or less). | |
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Associate Professor |
Coastal geomorphology and coastal hazards; impacts of storms on beaches and dunes. | |
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Professor |
Hydrodynamics of tsunamis; Laboratory and numerical experiments of complex waves motions in 3D domain, and the flow analyses. | |
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Professor |
Structural and fluid mechanics in the marine environment; fluid contact and impact effects on deformable structures; environmental waves modeling and wave load characterization; high-performance-computing based simulation of multi-physics, multi-scale, multi-domain systems; physical and numerical wave-basin system modeling, development, operation and experimentation; naval and marine hydrokinetic system development, modeling and analysis. |