OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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Wave Lab Staff |
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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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| Rebekah Miller |
Faculty Research Assistant O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory |
Provides engineering and technical support related to wave lab physical model experimentation. | |
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Affiliated Faculty |
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Executive Associate Dean, College of Engineering Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
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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Associate Vice President for Research Administration and Development
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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. | |
| Bryson Robertson |
Associate Professor; Co-Director, Pacific Marine Energy Center Civil & Construction Engineering |
Detailed wave, tidal and offshore wind energy resource assessments, optimizing energy harvesting technologies, and numerically integrating marine power into the electrical grid; at a variety of scale and opportunities. | |
| Ted Brekken |
Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Control, power electronics, and electric drives; specifically, advanced control techniques applied to renewable energy systems. Codirector of the Wallace Energy Systems and Renewables Facility (WESRF). | |
| Bryony DuPont |
Associate Professor Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
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Development and application of computational design tools for renewable energy systems and sustainable product design. | |
| Barbara Simpson |
Assistant Professor Civil & Construction Engineering |
Advanced computational and experimental methods to characterize structural response. Development of innovative structural systems that improve building performance and reduce the effects of natural hazards on the built environment. Research areas include resilient design and retrofit of building structures, performance-based earthquake engineering, and next-generation computational modeling, optimization, and simulation. | |
| Meagan Wengrove |
Assistant Professor Civil & Construction Engineering |
Mechanics of sediment transport and hydraulic design of nature based features. Specifically, focusing on the relationship between scales of sediment transport (e.g. a ripple feeding morphologic change of a sandbar), the effects of large storm events on deep seated erosion, and the hydraulics of nature based features such as living shorelines, marsh restorations, and coastal dunes. | |
| Matt Evans |
Professor Civil & Construction Engineering |
Granular mechanics, image analysis, numerical methods, and unsaturated soil mechanics, with applications to renewable energy, multiphysics problems, waste isolation, and sustainable infrastructure. | |
| Greg Wilson |
Assistant Professor Geology and Geophysics, CEOAS |
Physics of the nearshore coastal ocean including waves, currents, and sediment transport. |
