Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Borland Professor of Hydraulics
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Colorado State University
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Hello, I am an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. My primary research expertise is in the field of environmental fluid mechanics, geophysical fluid dynamics and hydraulics with a particular emphasis on using numerical simulations of fluid flows to study fundamental problems in civil and environmental engineering. These fundamental problems such as pollution, floods, mixing etc., involve rivers, estuaries, lakes, coastal and open oceans and the atmosphere. It is crucial to address these problems so that we can ensure sustainability of our environmental resources.
At Colorado State University, I mainly teach graduate courses in turbulence, numerical methods and computational fluid dynamics, and undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics and engineering dynamics.
Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, 2006
- MScEng (cum laude) in Civil Engineering, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2002.
- BScEng (summa cum laude) in Civil Engineering, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2000
Research Interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulic Engineering
- Computational Fluid Mechanics
- Wind Engineering & Energy for Sustainability
- Physical Oceanography & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Stratified Turbulence
- Turbulence Modeling
Selected Publications
- Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Ku, H., Fringer, O. B., Chiu, A., Naylor, R. L. and Koseff, J. R. 2011. "Numerical modeling of aquaculture dissolved waste transport in a coastal embayment", Environmental Fluid Mechanics, DOI:10.1007/s10652-011-9209-0 [pdf].
- Wilson, J. M., and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2010. "Evaluation of hydraulic efficiency of disinfection systems based on residence time distribution (RTD) curves", Environ. Sci. Technol., DOI: 10.1021/es102861g,[pdf].
- Venayagamoorthy, S. K., and Stretch, D. D. 2010. "On the turbulent Prandtl number in homogeneous stably stratified turbulence", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 644, pp 359-369 [pdf].
- Venayagamoorthy, S. K., and Fringer, O. B. 2007. "On the formation and propagation of nonlinear internal boluses across a shelf break", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 577, pp 137-159 [pdf].
- Venayagamoorthy, S. K., and Stretch, D. D. 2006. "Lagrangian mixing in decaying stably stratified turbulence", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 564, pp 197-226 [pdf].