Research Group

Current

Devin Dollery (PhD Student)
High-resolution internal solitary wave modeling and remote sensing.

Brooke Pauken(PhD Student)
Sand wave modeling and prediction.

Former Undergraduate Students

May Aye, 2021-2022, Honors thesis: "Remote sensing using LSPIV to measure surface currents in San Francisco Bay and the adjoining ocean"

Carlos Manuel Ciudad-Real, 2019-2020, Honors thesis: "Evaluating the economic feasibility of tidal and wave energy in California: A Monte Carlo approach"

Duncan Mactavish, 2019, Topic: Designing a solar panel system for continuous turbulence measurements

Marianne Cowherd, 2018-2019, Honors thesis: "Observations of boundary layer dynamics in South San Francisco Bay"

Sienna White, 2017-2019, Honors thesis: "No impediment to the sediment: A numerical model for sediment flux and flocculation in San Francisco Bay", Winner of the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Here is a latex style file developed by Marianne Cowherd that can be used for Stanford undergraduate honors theses and is a modifed version of the Stanford dissertation style file.

Former Doctoral Students

Peiyun Zhu, 2023, "Modeling the effects of surface waves on the atmospheric boundary layer".

Akshay Patil, 2023, "Direct numerical simulations of wave-current interactions over bumpy walls".

Wenhao Chen (Co-advisor: Sarah Billington), 2021, "A mass-conserving, cut-cell method to simulate scour formation with vertical Cartesian coordinates".

Yinuo Yao (Co-advisor: Craig Criddle), 2021, "Particle resolved simulations of particle-flow interactions in fluidized beds to optimize design and operation of domestic wastewater treatment systems".

Joe Adelson, 2020, "Remote sensing of suspended sediment in San Francisco bay using satellite and drone imagery".

Eric Mayer, 2020, "Idealized oceanic lee waves: Theory and numerical experiments of ocean currents flowing over sinusoidal bathymetry".

Kurt Nelson, 2018, "Simulating sediment dynamics in shallow-water wave- and current-driven environments".

Yun Zhang, 2017, "Numerical modeling for hydrodynamics and suspended sediment transport in estuarine marshes".

Gonçalo Gil, 2017, "Mass transport and shear-flow dispersion due to nonlinear internal gravity waves".

Kara Scheu, 2016, "Sediment transport due to river plumes in stratified, rotationally-influenced lakes".

Robert Arthur, 2015, "Numerical investigation of breaking internal waves on slopes: Dynamics, energetics, and transport".

Sean Vitousek, 2014, "Towards internal wave resolving simulations of the ocean".

Phillip Wolfram, 2014, "Secondary flows and dispersion in channel junctions".

Sergey Koltakov, (ICME) 2013, "Bathymetry inference from free-surface flow features using large-eddy simulation".

Bing Wang, 2012, "Multiscale numerical simulations of a complex macrotidal tidal-river estuary", winner of the 2011 Lorenz G. Straub award given for the most meritorious thesis in hydraulic engineering, ecohydraulics, or related field.

Vivien Chua, 2012, "Three-dimensional, unstructured-grid numerical simulations of hydrodynamics and scalar transport in San Francisco Bay".

Dujuan Kang, 2011, "Energetics and dynamics of internal tides in Monterey Bay using numerical simulations".

Zhonghua Zhang, 2010, "Numerical simulations of nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea".

Yi-Ju Chou, 2009, "Numerical study of sand ripple dynamics in turbulent flows".

Sheng Chen, (ICME) 2009, "Adaptive error estimators for electromagnetic field solvers".

Steven Jachec, 2007, "Understanding the evolution and energetics of internal tides within Monterey Bay via numerical simulations".

Karan Venayagamoorthy, 2006, "Energetics and dynamics of internal waves on a shelf break using numerical simulations", winner of the 2006 Lorenz G. Straub award given for the most meritorious thesis in hydraulic engineering, ecohydraulics, or related field.

Former Postdocs

Liangyi Yue, 2020-2022.

Galen Egan, 2020.

Justin Rogers, 2017-2018.

Bing Wang, 2015-2018.

Matthew Rayson, 2012-2015.

Sean Vitousek, 2014.

Navid Tahvildari, 2011-2014.

Yi-Ju Chou, 2009-2011.

Jun Lee, 2008-2009.

Mike Barad, 2006-2009.

Karan Venayagamoorthy, 2007.