Group

Current Students

Jakob Braga (MMath, co-supervised with Francis Poulin)
Air-sea interactions

Chris Drapeau (MASc, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, co-supervised by Jean-Pierre Hickey)
Infrasound generation in atmospheric turbulence

Donald Lai (MMath, 2018; PhD)
Large eddy simulation of convective systems

Mohammad Mohammadifar (MMath)
Numerical simulations of atmospheric turbulence

William Sepahi (PhD, co-supervised with Andrea Scott)
Numerical simulations of stratified turbulence

Previous Graduate Students

Martín F. Díaz Robles (MMath, 2023)
Predictability of stratified turbulence

Dinesh Siewnarine (MMath, 2021)
A comparative and exploratory study of homogeneous and inhomogeneous stratified turbulence

Amir Atoufi (PhD, 2020, Systems Design Engineering, co-supervised with Andrea Scott)
Turbulence in stably stratified boundary layers

Luke Fitzpatrick (MMath, 2019, Computational Mathematics)
Sub-grid turbulence models in large-scale atmospheric simulations

Jesse Legaspi (MMath, 2019)
Prandtl number dependence of stratified turbulence

Kimberly Mitchell (MASc, 2019, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, co-supervised with Fue-Sang Lien)
Atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides following small modular reactor accidents

Laura Chandler (MMath, 2018)
Numerical modelling of wind storms in the lower Great Lakes

Matthew Ambacher (MMath, 2017)
Normal mode wave-vortex decompositions of mesoscale simulations

Sina Khani (PhD, 2015)
Large eddy simulations and subgrid scale motions in stratified turbulence

Eric Bembenek (MMath, 2014, co-supervised with Francis Poulin)
Realizing surface driven flows in the primitive equations

James Sandham (MMath, 2014)
Spectral energy balance in convective boundary layers

Karthik Velakur (MMath, 2014, Computational Mathematics)
Direct numerical simulation of breaking of standing internal waves

Luke Bovard (MMath, 2013)
Short-wave vortex instabilities in stratified flow

Nancy Soontiens (PhD, 2013, co-supervised with Marek Stastna)
Stratified flow over topography: Steady nonlinear waves, boundary layer instabilities, and crater topography

Undergraduate Research Students

  • Nikhil Murali (2023, co-supervised with JP Hickey): Infrasound generation from turbulence
  • Devin Blankespoor (2023): Numerical simulations of moist Boussinesq turbulence
  • Jensen Lawrence (2022): Stochastic parameterization of sub-grid turbulence
  • Noah Dawang (2020): Statistics of stratified boundary layer turbulence
  • Nicholas Richardson (2019): Aliasing in turbulence simulations
  • Sarah Muth (2018-2019): Visualization of atmospheric model output
  • Christopher Lang (2016, 2018): Analysis of isotropy in turbulence simulation data
  • Joshua Thompson (2016): Modelling surface fluxes in cloud-resolving simulations
  • Shouzhen Gu (2015): Predictability of rotating stratified turbulence
  • Dinesh Siewnarine (2015): Identifying waves and vortices in atmospheric simulations
  • Divya Lala (2014, co-supervised with M. Stastna): Particle dynamics in stratified flow
  • Wesley Grieg (2011, co-supervised with F. Poulin): Shallow water energy spectra
  • Eric Bembenek (2010): Triad interactions of waves and vortices