Hydraulics and Hydrology
Faculty Research Interests/Publications
Hydraulics and Hydrologic Engineering
Rao S. Govindaraju
Watershed hydrology; stochastic and statistical hydrology; spatial variability; modeling surface and subsurface water movement; fate and transport of contaminants; machine learning applications in hydrology
Dennis A. Lyn
Experimental fluid mechanics computational fluid mechanics, turbulent flows, sediment, transport, environmental fluid mechanics.
Yue (Olivia) Meng
Physics of ice-ocean interactions, with a current focus on ice sheet hydrology, ice sheet calving dynamics, sea ice mechanics, and coastal engineering
Meng Research Group
Venkatesh M. Merwade
GIS applications in water resources engineering with specific focus on river channels; surface water hydrology; river hydraulics; cyberinfrastructure for hydrology; water in developing world
Cary D. Troy
Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence and mixing in natural water bodies, Lake Michigan circulation, internal waves, surface water waves, density-stratified flows, laboratory and field techniques in fluid mechanics including particle image velocimetry (PIV) and planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF).
The Troy Lab at Purdue University