• CIVIL EN 413: Fluid Mechanics, MWF 12:30-1:18
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• CIVIL EN 723: Transport Phenomena in Water Resources Engineering (even years starting 2010).
• CIVIL EN 823: Numerical Models in Water Resources Engineering (odd years starting 2011).

• CIVIL EN 768: Introduction to the Finite Element Method, MW 2:30-3:18
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My research interest is in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD); specifically, my work focuses on the development, implementation, analysis, and application of finite element models for flow and transport processes. Applications of interest include modeling flow and transport in riverine, estuarine, lake, and coastal inlet systems; tides; hurricane storm surge; coastal ocean circulation; and sediment, contaminant, and species transport. Broad areas of interest include numerical analysis, environmental modeling and parallel computing.

I am a member of the ADvanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) hydrodynamic model development group. The “operational” version of this finite element model has been extensively used in simulating hurricane storm surge in Southern Louisiana and Texas, and, though still a research code, has been used by a number of agencies including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). I have been primarily involved in the development of a “next-generation” ADCIRC model, based on discontinuous Galerkin (DG) technology. Click HERE to read about ADCIRC in the news.

Significant collaborations include work with Dr. Clint Dawson at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Joannes Westerink at the University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Anna Spagnuolo at Oakland University. Our current work on hurricane storm surge simulation on petascale computers is supported by the National Science Foundation. Click HERE for more information. Future collaboration with Dr. Spagnuolo's group will involve modeling the colonization of Vibrio cholerae in the small intestine.

• We received Ohio Sea Grant funding for the development of a finite element grid of Lake Erie.
• Invited to the University of Central Florida for seminar talk (June 4, 2008).
• Invited to Oakland University for seminar talk (June 13, 2008).
• Received a Young Investigator Travel Award from the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) to present at the 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanice in Venice, Italy (July 2008).
• Received the J. T. Oden Faculty Research Fellowship to conduct research at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin (August 2008).
• Presented at The Eighth International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering in Nagoya, Japan (September 2008).
• My latest manuscript is published in the Journal of Computational Physics (December 2008).
• Inivted speaker at the Ohio Lake Erie Commission Quarterly Meeting in downtown Columbus, OH (March 2009).
• Co-organizer mini-symposium: "Finite element methods and high performance computing for environmental fluid mechanics" at the 10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM 10), July 16-19, 2009, right here in Columbus, OH!

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Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science, OSU
ADCIRC Development Group