My students and I conduct research in environmental fluid mechanics, and physical and mathematical modeling of pollutant transport and mixing. Ongoing and recently completed projects include:
- Environmental impacts of desalination (Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the Environment)
- Modeling multi-phase plumes with application to deep-sea oil spills (GoMRI DOI/MMS)
- Applying chemical dispersants to sub-surface oil spills (Chevron)
- A flexible curtain to contain oil from a deep ocean blowout (ENI)
- Lagrangian simulation of the 3D dispersal of aging oil (NSF RAPID)
- Innovative uses for a power plant’s thermal discharge: de-stratifying the Charles River Basin (NOAA/Sea Grant)
- Experimental & mathematical models of sediment clouds (Singapore NRF)
- Modeling the direct release of CO2 to the ocean (DOE/FE and OS)
- Modeling the direct release of CO2 to the ocean (DOE/FE and OS)
- Behavior of capped contaminated sediments (NOAA/Sea Grant; US ACE)
CURRENT RESEARCH GROUP
- Adrian Lai, Research Engineer, SMART
- Aaron Chow, Post-doc
- Cindy Wang, PhD student
- Ishita Shrivastava, PhD student
- Tanguy Raguenez, MEng student
- Kenneth Yu, MEng student
Image of descending sediment cloud composed of glass beads (light blue) and entrained ambient fluid (red).