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X-WR-CALNAME:Final Doctoral Defense for Hunter Boswell
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DESCRIPTION:Hunter Boswell\, a doctoral candidate in aerospace engineering\
 , will defend their dissertation titled “Energetics and Impact Dynamics 
 of Breaking Coastal Waves.” Their advisor\, Dr. Frank D. Han is an assoc
 iate professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department. The
 ir co-advisor\, Dr. Guirong Yan is an professor in the civil\, architectur
 al and environmental engineering department. The dissertation abstract is 
 provided below. \n\nThis dissertation examines the detailed behavior of sh
 allow-water waves as they shoal and break in the coastal environment. This
  is critical for properly designing civil structures and infrastructure in
  coastal regions\, which face severe threats from hurricane induced floodi
 ng\, wave impacts\, and other coastal hazards. The use of numerical tools 
 here is of key interest\, due to the multi-scale nature of the wave breaki
 ng problem. In this study\, we employ direct numerical simulations\, which
  resolve all turbulent scales without modeling\, to capture the dynamics o
 f wave breaking at high fidelity and seek to capture the essential physics
  of the problem. We start by first considering the wave breaking event in 
 isolation\, where we study a solitary wave which shoals and breaks in a ba
 thymetry analogous to a storm surge. We track the energy dissipation in th
 e water phase and find that the dissipation rate collapses to a scaling pr
 edicted by established shallow-water theory. Further\, we extend the probl
 em to include wind forcing and study both the pre-breaking wind energy inp
 ut as well as the wind effect on post-breaking waves. Next\, we consider t
 he solitary wave which impacts a wall in the same style of bathymetry and 
 focus on how the different types of breaking waves affect the peak impacti
 ng pressure and find a key unifying trend across these morphologies. Final
 ly\, we consider the use of a multi-layer numerical model that approximate
 s the vertical flow structure\, in order to bridge the scale gap to more a
 pplied engineering problems and compare its performance to that of our dir
 ect numerical simulations.
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SUMMARY:Final Doctoral Defense for Hunter Boswell
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 ter-boswell
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