Experimental setup for planar laser induced fluorescence in a laboratory bubble plume. Experimental setup by graduate student D.-G. Seol.
Research Group
Current Graduate Students
- Dong-Guan Seol (Ph.D.): Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) methods applied to two-phase plumes. Graduated in May 2008. Currently postdoc for Prof. G. H. Jirka at the Institute for Hydromechanics, University of Karlsurhe, Germany.
- Duncan Bryant (Ph.D.): Identification and characterization of coherent structures and a priori testing of sub-grid scale turbulence models using PIV and LIF data
- Kerri Whilden (M.S.): Laboratory studies of large coherent structures at tidal inlets on the Texas coast
Current Undergraduate Students
- Kathryn Hagan: Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) measurements in stratified exchange flow over a sill (part of the Summer Research Internship: Germany program)
- Bryan Alldredge: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and dye visualization of forced vortices in shallow turbulent flow (part of the Summer Research Internship: Germany program)
Past Graduate Students
- Francisco Nicolau del Roure: Laboratory studies of eddy structures and exchange processes through tidal inlets (August 2007)
- Tirtharaj Bhaumik: Two-fluid integral model of a stratified multiphase plume (August 2005)
Past Undergraduate Students
- Terry Starling: Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) measurements in a multiphase plume
- Allison DenBleyker: Laboratory and numerical studies of exchange processes through tidal inlets on the Texas Coast
- Ricardo Ramirez: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements in a multiphase plume
- Jennifer Dupalo: (1) Study of inlet characteristics along the Texas Coast, and (2) Integral model of a deep ocean carbon dioxide plume
- Matthew Posey: LIF and PIV measurements in a simple bubble plume
- Frances McDonnell: Statistics of hourly rainfall data for National Weather Service network gauges in Texas