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Coastal Hydrodynamics and Hazards

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Faculty

James M. Kaihatu

Professor, Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (primary appointment) and Department of Ocean Engineering (joint appointment)

jkaihatu@tamu.edu

979-862-3511

Student

Samira Ardani

BS in Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran; MS in Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. Ph.D. dissertation: A model for transformation of fully dispersive nonlinear waves. Graduated August 2016. Status: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX.

John Goertz

BS, MS in Ocean Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Ph.D. dissertation: Nearshore interactions of tsunamis with local systems. Status: Engineer, South Pacific Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, CA.

Sunghoon Han

BS, MS in Naval Architecture and Ocean Systems Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, Republic of Korea. Project: Wave and hydrodynamic characteristics present in tsunami interaction with offshore islands.

Inchul Kim

BS, MS in Civil Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Project: Development and implementation of a consistently-scaled, nonlinear frequency domain ocean wave model.

Jin Young Kim

BS in Environmental and Civil Engineering, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan; MS in Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Project: Modeling coastal hydrodynamics in vegetated areas along the Texas Gulf Coast. Co-chair with Kuang-An Chang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Wonhyun Lee

BS, ME in Civil Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Ph.D. dissertation: Modeling of three-dimensional wind-driven hydrodynamic and environmental processes in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Graduated August 2018. Status: NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS.

Ying-Po Liao

BS in Civil Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; MS in Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Ph.D. dissertation: Interaction of a turbulent wind with ocean surface waves – numerical modeling. Graduated December 2016. Status: Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. Co-chair with Reza Sadr, Texas A&M University Qatar.

Navid Tahvildari

BS in Civil Engineering, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran; MS in Civil Engineering, Sharif University, Tehran, Iran. Ph.D. dissertation: Nonlinear interactions between long waves in a two-layer fluid. Graduated December 2011. Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Research web site at Old Dominion University.

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