Ocean

And Coastal Science and Engineering

Faculty

Reza Alam

Director

American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair in Ocean Engineering, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Research Interests:
– Ocean and Coastal Waves Phenomena,
– Ocean Renewable Energy
– Theoretical Fluid Dynamics
– Ocean Renewable Energy
– Theoretical Fluid Dynamics,

reza.alam@berkeley.edu

Simo Makiharju

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering , UC Berkeley

Research Interests:
To advance the physical understanding of high Reynolds number single- and multiphase flows primarily through experimental research, and through the development and use of advanced experimental techniques. Multiphase flows are encountered in almost every aspect of modern life, including offshore applications, biological flows, energy production, chemical processing, and naval hydrodynamics.

makiharju@berkeley.edu

Hannah Stuart

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:
Dexterous manipulation; Bioinspired design; Soft and multi-material mechanisms; Skin contact conditions; Tactile sensing and haptics.

hstuart@berkeley.edu

Mimi R. Koehl

Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Integrative Biology

Research Interests:
biomechanics, insects, invertebrate functional morphology, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, marine animals, filtration, gliding vertebrates .

cnidaria@berkeley.edu

Ömer Savaş

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:
Fluid mechanics: aircraft wake vortices; biofluid mechanics; boundary layers; instrumentation; rotating flows; transient aerodynamics; turbulent flows; vortex dynamics

savas@me.berkeley.edu

Evan Variano

Professor of Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Environmental fluid dynamics, experimental methods, mixing and transport by turbulence, air-sea exchange and the global carbon budget, hydrodynamic effects on aquatic organisms, nonlinear dynamics and coupled systems, energy-efficient mixing and particle removal for water treatment, and inquiry education.

variano@ce.berkeley.edu

Bethanie Edwards

Assistant Professor, McMinn Endowed Chair, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science

Research Interests:
Oceanography, Chemical Oceanography, Environmental Microbiology, Molecular tools for Microbial Ecology, Mass Spectrometry, Lipidomics, Lipid Metabolism, Marine Biogeochemistry, Microbial Carbon Cycling, Ocean Carbon Cycle Dynamics .

bethanie_edwards@berkeley.edu

Philip Marcus

Professor of Fluid Mechanics , UC Berkeley

Research Interests:
Algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary Ddsks

pmarcus@me.berkeley.edu

Alexis Kaminski

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:
geophysical fluid dynamics, waves and instabilities in stratified flows, transition to turbulence

kaminska@uw.edu

Emeriti

Ronald Yeung

Professor Emeritus of Hydromechanics and Ocean Engineering, UC Berkeley
Research Interests:
Hydromechanics, naval architecture, ship hydrodynamics, mathematical modeling, numerical fluid mechanics, offshore mechanics, ocean processes, separated flows, wave-vorticity interaction, vortex-induced vibrations, ocean-wave energy, tidal current energy, two-layer fluid flow, hydroelasticity, multi-hull optimization, moonpool resonance, vortical flow for slender hulls in forward motion, wave-to-wire conversion, model-predictive controls, micro-scale turbine, unsteady ship interactions

rwyeung@berkeley.edu

Alaa Mansour

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus

Research Interests:
Structural reliability and safety, probabilistic dynamics of marine structures, strength of ship and offshore structures, development of design criteria.

alaa@berkeley.edu

William C. Webster

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus

Research Interests:
nonlinear coupled motions of offshore structures, operations research, shallow water fluid mechanics, steep water waves and wave energy.

wwebster@berkeley.edu

John V. Wehausen

Professor of Engineering Science, Emeritus

Research Interests:
ship waves, ship maneuverability, floating systems in waves, and ship-generated solitary waves.

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