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Faculty |
Area |
Expertise |
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Gregory Chini Professor |
Fluid Dynamics/Physical Applied Mathematics |
Mathematical analysis and computational modeling of geophysical (especially oceanographic), environmental, biological and industrial flows.
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Diane Foster Professor |
Ocean Engineering |
Fluid-sediment interactions in coastal environments, ocean bottom boundary layer and sediment dynamics, fluid-structure-Sediment of submarine objects (i.e. mines, piers), Optical and wireless sensor development for ocean applications, suspension and transport of mixed-grain sediment.
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Brad Kinsey Professor |
Manufacturing |
Electromagnetic forming and magnetic pulsed welding, materials characterization, stress based failure criterion evaluation, microforming.
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Marko Knezevic Professor |
Materials Behavior |
Understanding of materials behavior under complex loading using a combination of computational methods and experiments, development of constitutive material models, design and manufacturing at component levels, materials design at microstructural length scales, as well as the development of high-performance computational applications integrating multi-scale material models for predicting materials behavior.
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John McHugh Professor |
Fluid Dynamics |
Internal waves in the atmosphere of earth and other planets, origins of the deep ocean circulations, and non-linear waves on the surface of a fluid.
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May-Win Thein Professor |
System Dynamics |
Nonlinear estimation and control with particular emphasis on spacecraft, quadcopters, extraterrestrial surface navigation and exploration and autonomous/remotely operated surface and underwater marine vehicles.
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Igor Tsukrov Professor |
Mechanics of Materials/ Ocean Engineering |
Micromechanics and fracture of composite materials, modeling of marine aquaculture and ocean energy installations, computational solid mechanics and finite element method.
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Christopher White Professor |
Fluid Mechanics |
Experimental fluid mechanics, combustion, energy conversion technologies, alternative energy.
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Martin Wosnik Associate Professor |
Fluid and Thermal Sciences |
Renewable energy applications, marine renewable energy, wind energy , turbulent flows, high-speed hydrodynamics, cavitation, flow measurement and hydraulic modeling. |
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Nathan Laxague Assistant Professor |
Ocean Engineering/Fluid Dynamics | Field observational and laboratory experimental studies of air-sea interaction, ocean surface wave hydrodynamics, marine-atmosphere coupled boundary layer dynamics, geophysical turbulence. |
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Julianna Gesun Postdoc |
Engineering Education |
Engineering Thriving: the process by which engineering programs facilitate the environments for students to develop optimal functioning in undergraduate engineering programs; non-cognitive factors (such as ethics, motivation, and wellbeing) that support engineering student success; diverse, inclusive, assessable, and equitable engineering education; mentorship and advising practices for neurodiverse engineering students |
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Theresa Oehmke Postdoc Research Associate |
Fluid Mechanics | Transport of particles and pollutants in the environment, laboratory experiments, environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence, non-spherical particles, mass transport. |
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Tracy Mandel Assistant Professor |
Ocean Engineering/Fluid Dynamics |
Environmental fluid mechanics, flow through coastal ecosystems, ecohydraulics, canopy flows, density-driven flows, coastal hydrodynamics, experimental methods. |