Building Resilient Coastal Communities
From mangrove digital twins to resilient coastal protection
Research
Our research focuses on computational modeling, environmental sensing, and data assimilation to improve the analysis, design, and operation of coastal and ocean systems.
Data Assimilation
Reconstructing the digital world with realistic environmental and structural data
Two-Phase Newtonian-Rheological Flow
High-fidelity modeling of underwater 3D concrete printing processes
Floater dynamics and Mooring Analysis
Simulation of floater dynamics undergoing wave-wind-current excitations
Floating City Digital Twin
R&D on digital twin framework for resilient design of floating infrastructure
Solar Energy Deployment in Louisiana
Evaluating the feasibility of renewable energy deployment across Louisiana
Natural Shoreline Design
Better natural shoreline design through multi-scale numerical modeling
Sloshing
Analyze 2D/3D sloshing behavior using sophisticated and reduced-order models
Water Waves
Develop high-fidelity non-hydrostatic computational models of water waves over complex bathymetry
Tuned Liquid Damper with Porous Media
Integrate porous media into tuned liquid dampers to improve structural vibration control
Nonlinear Tuned Mass Damper
Optimize track curvature for a nonlinear tuned mass damper under extreme loading conditions
Boundary Element Methods
Develop advanced regularization techniques for solving boundary integral equations