Water Signature Research Area Seminar

The Water Signature Research Area along with the Civil Engineering Hydrology and Hydraulics group will welcome Dr. Matthew Farthing, a research hydraulic engineer at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory in Vicksburg, MS, to present a seminar titled:

Computational Modeling for Coastal and Hydraulic Applications in the Corps of Engineers

Computational models are increasingly important for achieving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's mission of delivering vital public and military engineering services. The problems that are asked to be solved often involve many coupled physical processes that may exhibit strong variation at a range of spatial and temporal scales. Such problems rarely have analytical solutions and typically require sophisticated, model-specific numerical methods, which may in practice be developed in tandem with the mathematical models.

In this talk, Dr. Farthing will discuss some of these problems along with efforts to develop computational tools to support both research and engineering applications at the Corps of Engineers.  He will look at challenges associated with building accurate, high-fidelity approximations as well using these models in areas where access to traditional data sources may be limited. Although the range of models and problems that are of interest to the Corps of Engineers is quite broad, the focus for the talk will be on a few examples for free-surface flow in coastal and riverine environments as well as flows in porous media.

Files

• EventC4E_HydrologyTalk.pdf