Past Event: Babuška Forum

Coastal Ocean Modeling for Flood-Related Hazards

Clint Dawson, Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

Abstract

**This seminar will be presented live in POB 6.304 and via Zoom.**

In this talk, I will explain the basics of coastal ocean modeling: the underlying physics and assumptions, the mathematical models, and their numerical approximation. I will discuss the current state of the art, and future research directions. I will also discuss several applications related to hurricane modeling, and discuss how our models are used in decision-making. 

 

Biography

Clint Dawson is the John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering and the Department Chair of the Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department. He is the head of the Computational Hydrology Group in the Oden Institute and has been at UT for 27 years. He received his Ph.D. from Rice University in Mathematical Sciences. He is a fellow of SIAM and won the SIAM Geosciences Career Prize in 2013.