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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
My research is in the broad area of Environmental Fluid Mechanics, with emphasis on laboratory experiments and data analysis to elucidate mixing mechanisms by turbulence and coherent structures. Current research projects study turbulent mixing processes in three contexts: (1) multiphase plumes, (2) shallow tidal inlets, and (3) natural seeps.

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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University of Colorado Boulder - (Boulder, Colorado, United States)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)

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William O. and Montine P. Head Faculty Fellow

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Montague Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Scholar

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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

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Behavior and dynamics of bubble breakup in gas pipeline leaks and accidental subsea oil well blowouts.

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Simulation of scenarios of oil droplet formation from the Deepwater Horizon blowout.

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Droplet and bubble formation of combined oil and gas releases in subsea blowouts.

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Bubble Plume Integral Model for Line-Source Diffusers in Ambient Stratification

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Texas A&M Oilspill Calculator (TAMOC): Modeling suite for subsea spills

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Investigations of Aerobic Methane Oxidation in Two Marine Seep Environments: Part 2-Isotopic Kinetics

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Oil spill modeling in deep waters: Estimation of pseudo-component properties for cubic equations of state from distillation data.

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A deep-sea, high-speed, stereoscopic imaging system for in situ measurement of natural seep bubble and droplet characteristics

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Double-plume integral models for near-field mixing in multiphase plumes

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Effect of Stratification and Crossflow on the Dynamics of Bubble Plumes

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Simulating Gas-Liquid-Water Partitioning and Fluid Properties of Petroleum under Pressure: Implications for Deep-Sea Blowouts.

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Concentration-Based Decomposition of the Flow around a Confined Cylinder in a UV Disinfection Reactor

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Structure and evolution of tidal starting jet vortices at idealized barotropic inlets

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Simulation of laboratory experiments for vortex dynamics at shallow tidal inlets using the fine resolution environmental hydrodynamics (Frehd) model

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PIV measurements of turbulence in an inertial particle plume in an unstratified ambient

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Using surface drifter observations to measure tidal vortices and relative diffusion at Aransas Pass, Texas

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Liquid volume fluxes in stratified multiphase plumes

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Numerical investigation of wave-induced flow in mound-channel wetland systems

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Vector post-processing algorithm for phase discrimination of two-phase PIV

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Development of an offshore response guidance tool for determining the impact of SSDI on released gas and benzene from artificial subsea oil well blowout simulations.

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Experimental Study on the Propagation and Stability of Tidal Vortices

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Budgets of turbulent kinetic energy, Reynolds stresses, and dissipation in a turbulent round jet discharged into a stagnant ambient

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Modeling the Dissolution and Transport of Bubbles Emitted From Hydrocarbon Seeps Within the Hydrate Stability Zone of the Oceans

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Stabilization of cylinder wakes in shallow water flows by means of roughness elements: an experimental study

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Increased sediment oxygen flux in lakes and reservoirs: The impact of hypolimnetic oxygenation

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Hourly disaggregation of daily rainfall in Texas using measured hourly precipitation at other locations

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Near-Field Resuspension Model for a Cutter Suction Dredge

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Hydrates in the Ocean beneath, around, and above Production Equipment

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Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume Two

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Regionalization of the Modified Bartlett-Lewis Rectangular Pulse Stochastic Rainfall Model

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Role of Slip Velocity in the Behavior of Stratified Multiphase Plumes

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume One

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The turbulent kinetic energy budget in a bubble plume

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A LES-based Eulerian-Lagrangian approach to predict the dynamics of bubble plumes

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Experiments on mass exchange between groin fields and main stream in rivers

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Dynamics of Gas Bubbles From a Submarine Hydrocarbon Seep Within the Hydrate Stability Zone

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Large-eddy simulation and parameterization of buoyant plume dynamics in stratified flow

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Quantification of turbulence properties in bubble plumes using vortex identification methods

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Particle image velocimetry measurements of the mean flow characteristics in a bubble plume

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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How Do Oil, Gas, and Water Interact Near a Subsea Blowout?

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Comment on "Evolution of the macondo well blowout: simulating the effects of the circulation and synthetic dispersants on the subsea oil transport".

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Multi-phase plumes in uniform, stratified, and flowing environments

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Evaluation of linear autoregressive models for estimation of energy spectra in gappy turbulent velocity data

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Evolution of droplets in subsea oil and gas blowouts: development and validation of the numerical model VDROP-J.

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Effects of Bubble Plumes on Lake Dynamics, Near-Bottom Turbulence, and Transfer of Dissolved Oxygen at the Sediment-Water Interface

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Intercomparison of oil spill prediction models for accidental blowout scenarios with and without subsea chemical dispersant injection.

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On the bubble rise velocity of a continually released bubble chain in still water and with crossflow

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Using Carbon Isotope Fractionation to Constrain the Extent of Methane Dissolution Into the Water Column Surrounding a Natural Hydrocarbon Gas Seep in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

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Tidal eddies at a narrow channel inlet in operational oil spill models.

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Investigations of Aerobic Methane Oxidation in Two Marine Seep Environments: Part 1-Chemical Kinetics

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Ten years of modeling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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Dissolution of Direct Ocean Carbon Sequestration Plumes Using an Integral Model Approach

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Linear stability analysis of inclined two-layer stratified flows

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Characteristics of mean flow and turbulence in bubble-in-chain induced flows

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A Review on Multiphase Underwater Jets and Plumes: Droplets, Hydrodynamics, and Chemistry

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Analytical and experimental studies of droplet plumes with application to CO2 ocean sequestration

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Characterization of Tidal Inlet Exchange Flows Using Satellite Imagery

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The treatment of biodegradation in models of sub-surface oil spills: A review and sensitivity study.

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Formation of tidal starting-jet vortices through idealized barotropic inlets with finite length

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Mean velocity, spreading and entrainment characteristics of weak bubble plumes in unstratified and stationary water

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The influence of droplet size and biodegradation on the transport of subsurface oil droplets during the Deepwater Horizon spill: a model sensitivity study

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Experimental study of wave dynamics in coastal wetlands

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Enhanced diffusion from a continuous point source in shallow free-surface flow with grid turbulence

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Turbulence measurements in the northern gulf of Mexico: Application to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on droplet dynamics

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Disaggregation of Daily Rainfall for Continuous Watershed Modeling

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Computational and experimental study of an oil jet in crossflow: coupling population balance model with multifluid large eddy simulation

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Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Memorial Volume in honour of Prof. Gerhard H. Jirka

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Experimental study of solitary wave evolution over a 3D shallow shelf

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Comparison of Surface Current Measurement Techniques and Observations of Tidal Inlet Dynamics Using Unmanned Aerial Systems

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Direct coupling of near-field and far-field models hones predictions of oil spill transport and fate from deep-sea blowout

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Petroleum dynamics in the sea and influence of subsea dispersant injection during Deepwater Horizon.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Large-scale flow structures and stability in shallow flows

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From Bubbles to Beaches: An Integrated Modeling Approach to Oil Spill Response

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HSPF modeling of the Charles River Watershed

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Storm Identification and Tracking Algorithm for Modeling of Rainfall Fields Using 1-h NEXRAD Rainfall Data in Texas

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Measurement of Behavioral Properties of Entrained Ambient Water in a Stratified Bubble Plume

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Simulating Oil Droplet Dispersal From the Deepwater Horizon Spill With a Lagrangian Approach

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Formation dynamics of subsurface hydrocarbon intrusions following the Deepwater Horizon blowout

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Observations of bubbles in natural seep flares at MC 118 and GC 600 using in situ quantitative imaging

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A depth-integrated model for weakly dispersive, turbulent, and rotational fluid flows

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Multi-phase plumes in uniform and stratified crossflow

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2012-2014 Texas Sea Grant-Fish Larvae Recruitment To Texas Bays Through Aransas Pass-TEES

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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NOAA Omnibus Texas Sea Grant Support 2018-2021

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Collaborative Research:  Managing Oxygen Demand in Lakes and Reservoirs - A Competition Between Natural and Artificial Forcing

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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RAPID: Measuring Freshwater Exports from Galveston Bay After Hurricane Harvey-

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Answering the Challenge of Arctic Conditions on Oil Spill Incidents:  A Proposal to Assist the Federal On-Scene Command

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Dynamic Behavior of Natural Seep Vents:  Analysis of Field and Laboratory Observations and Modeling

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Civil Engineering; 3136 TAMU

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Allen, Jon Scott (2013-08). An Analysis of Self-similarity, Momentum Conservation and Energy Transport for an Axisymmetric Turbulent Jet through a Staggered Array of Rigid Emergent Vegetation. Master's Thesis.

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Truong, Melanie Khanh Phuong (2011-08). Experimental Study on Wave Transformation and Nearshore Circulation on a Variable Bathymetry in Wetlands. Master's Thesis.

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Nicolau del Roure, Francisco (2007-08). Laboratory studies of eddy structures and exchange processes through tidal inlets. Master's Thesis.

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Holder, Rachel (2013-08). Studies into the Initial Conditions, Flow Rate, and Containment System of Oil Field Leaks in Deep Water. Master's Thesis.

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Dehkharghanian, Vadoud (2016-12). Concentration Field of Passive Scalar in a Multi-Phase Plume: Experimental Study on Applying of the 3D-PLIF Technique and Its Application for Design of Subsea Injection System of Dispersant. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Whilden, Kerri Ann (2009-08). Laboratory Analysis of Vortex Dynamics For Shallow Tidal Inlets. Master's Thesis.

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Whilden, Kerri Ann (2015-08). Investigation of Tidal Exchange and the Formation of Tidal Vortices at Aransas Pass, Texas, USA. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Seol, Dong Guan (2008-05). Entrainment and mixing properties of multiphase plumes: Experimental studies on turbulence and scalar structure of a bubble plume. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Bryant, Duncan Burnette (2010-05). Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows: Experimental Studies on the Turbulence of Multiphase Plumes and Tidal Vortices. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Bhaumik, Tirtharaj (2005-08). Numerical modeling of multiphase plumes: a comparative study between two-fluid and mixed-fluid integral models. Master's Thesis.

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Rezvani, Maryam (2016-05). Bubble Plumes in Crossflow: Laboratory and Field Measurements of Their Fluid Dynamic Properties with Application to Lake Aeration and Management. Doctoral Dissertation.

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West, Nicholas Allan (2014-12). Conceptual Design and Physical Model Tests of a Levee-in-Dune Hurricane Barrier. Master's Thesis.

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Lai, Chung Kei Chris (2015-12). An Analysis of Bubble Plumes in Unstratified Stagnant Water. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Hutschenreuter, Katie Lynn (2017-05). Comparison of Results Using the Fine Resolution Environmental HydroDynamic Model with Laboratory PIV Analysis of Vortex Dynamics for Shallow Tidal Inlets. Master's Thesis.