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