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Hermann Marc Fritz

Associate Professor

Affinity Group: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources
Office: GT. Sav-PARB A236
Swing Space: IPST 216
Email: hermann.fritz@gtsav.gatech.edu
Web: http://www.gtsav.gatech.edu/cee/groups/tsunami/

Biography

Dr. Fritz started his dual-appointment in March 2003 as Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program in Savannah and the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Atlanta. His research centers on fluid dynamic aspects of natural hazards such as tsunamis, hurricane storm surges and landslides as well as their mitigation and coastal protection. Dr. Fritz obtained his [Read More]

Research Interests

  • Tsunamis, bores, non-linear and breaking waves
  • Subaerial and submarine landslides and oceanic volcano island collapses
  • Hurricane storm surges and coastal flooding Hydropower
  • Wave and tidal energy Hydraulic, coastal, marine and offshore structures
  • River engineering
  • Sediment transport and morphologic processes
  • Advanced whole field multi-dimensional laser measurement techniques
  • Numerical simulation of multiphase flows
  • Natural hazard mitigation and risk analysis
  • Natural and man-made hazards

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, 2002
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, 1997