OCEAN WAVE MECHANICS / FLUID MECHANICS/MARINE HYDRODYNAMICS/COMPUTATIONAL FLUIDS DYNAMICS : OCEAN WAVE MECHANICS / FLUID MECHANICS/MARINE HYDRODYNAMICS/COMPUTATIONAL FLUIDS DYNAMICS
Name:
Stéphan T. Grilli
Department:
Ocean Engineering
Office Phone Number:
401-874-6636
FAX Number:
401-874- 6837
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Specialty:
Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics, Hydrodynamics, Ocean Wave Mechanics, Long Waves/Tsunamis, Wave-structtures interactions, Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics
Expertise:
Numerical, theoretical, and experimental investigations of complex flow fields. Development of 2D and 3D higher-order Boundary Element Models; application and coupling with BEM of Navier-Stokes solvers (Volume of Fluids Methods). Computational Fluid Dynamics and optimization of solutions of large numerical problems.
Applications:
nearshore hydrodynamics (with and without sediment transport); ocean wave transformations and breaking; tsunami generation (landslide tsunamis), propagation and runup; porous media flows, multiphase flows; shallow water acoustics; oil containment systems.
Funding Sources:
NSF, ONR, NATO, U.S. Coastguard (DOT), NRL, MMS (DOI), URI Seagrant