EFMWR Research
Research is supported by federal, state, and international agencies and private companies including the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Department of Transportation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Geological Survey, the World Bank, and National Institutes of Health, and Office of Naval Research.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering research focuses on turbulent entrainment, transport, and mixing processes in natural and engineered environments. Projects include:
- Sediment transport and bridge foundation scour
- Environmentally-friendly hydropower Installations
- Cohesive sediment resuspension
- Wastewater dispersion in coastal waters
- Bio-medical engineering flows
- Biological and ecological flows
- Chaotic advection in swirling flows
Hydrology, Hydroclimatology, and Water Resources research focuses on terrestrial and atmospheric water and energy balances and fluxes and decision support systems promoting holistic, equitable, and sustainable use of water resources. Specific projects include:
- Remote rainfall and soil moisture assessment
- Coupling of surface, subsurface, and atmospheric hydrological models
- Cryospheric processes
- Hillslope processes
- Monsoon and flood forecasting in Bangladesh
- Decision support systems for the Southeastern US, California, East Africa and India
Coastal Engineering research is conducted mainly at the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program (GTREP) in Savannah. Projects include:
- Water waves generated by winds, landslide, avalanche, or earthquake
- Coastal current modeling
- Beach erosion
- Dredging for navigation or sand supply
- Circulation and transport in estuaries, rivers and lakes