Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy

Publications

Journal Articles Top
57 Rastello, M., Klema, M. R., Carpenter, A. B., Garanaik, A., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Gates, T. K. (2021) Velocity measurements in developing narrow open-channel flow with high free-stream turbulence: Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry (ADV) and Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA). Flow Measurement and Instrumentation (in-review). 2021
56 Klema, M. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. (2021). On the use and misuse of the Osborn model: Implications for improved estimates of ocean mixing rates. Journal of Fluid Mechanics (in revision). 2021
55 Pugh, J. E., Gates, T. K., Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2021, “Adjusting protocols to mitigate uncertainty of ADCP moving-boat discharge measurements for irrigation water management”. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, 82 (2021) 102060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2021.102060. 2021
54 Baker, J., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., and De Long, S. 2021. “Random packing material in disinfection contactors: effects on baffling and energy loss”, Journal of Water Science, American Water Works Association, https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1231. 2021
53 Sinclair, J., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., and Gates, T. K. 2021, “Some insights on flow over sharp-crested weirs using computational fluid dynamics”, in press, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE. 2021
52 Masunaga, E., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Wada, K., and Yamazaki, H, 2021. “Variability of diapycnal mixing coefficient in coastal oceans investigated with direct microstructure measurements, in revised review, Journal of Marine Systems. 2021
51 Garanaik, A. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2021. “Some new insights for inferring diapycnal diffusivity in stably stratified turbulence, to be submitted for rereview, Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2021
50 Klema, M., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Pouquet, A., Rosenberg, D. and Marino, R. 2021. “Analysis of mixing in homogeneous stratified and decaying turbulence, in-review, Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 2021
49 Zhou, J. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. (2020). “Impact of ambient stable stratification on gravity currents propagating over a submerged canopy.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics,898A15 Read this online 2020
48 Klema, Matthew R., Pirzado, Abdul G., Venayagamoorthy, S. Karan, Gates, Timothy K. (2020). “Analysis of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Mean Velocity Measurements in Shallow Flows” Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, 74(2020) 101755 2020
47 Zhang, J., Liu, X., Nielsen, K., Tejada-Martinez, A., Venayagamoorthy, S. K. Wicklein, E., Kamojjala, S., (2020). “Emerging Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Water Treatment.” Journal of Environmental Engineering Read this online 2020
46 Baker, J., De Long, S. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. (2020). “Random packing material in disinfection contactors: Effects on final drinking water quality.” Journal of Water Science, American Water Works Association Read this online 2020
45 Zhou, J. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. (2020). “propagation of a gravity current?” Physics of Fluids, 32, 096605 Read this online 2020
44 Garanaik, A. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. (2019). “On the inference of the state of turbulence and mixing efficiency in stably stratified flows.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 867: 323-333 2019
43 Zhou, J. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. (2019). “Near-field mean flow dynamics of a cylindrical canopy patch suspended in deep water.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 858: 634-655 Read this online 2019
42 Garanaik, A. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. (2018). “Assessment of small scale anisotropy in stably stratified turbulent flows using direct numerical simulations.” Physics of Fluids, 30 126602 Read this online 2018
41 Arthur, R. S., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Koseff, J. R. and O. B. Fringer (2017). “How we compute N matters to estimates of mixing in stratified flows.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 831:R2 2017
40 Zhou, J. Cenedese, C., William, T., Ball, M., Venayagamoorthy, S. K. and Nokes, R. 2017. “On the propagation of gravity currents over and through a submerged array of circular cylinders, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.604 . 2017
39 Schaad, S. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2017. “Direct numerical simulations of decaying stably stratified turbulence”, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.05.022, Computers and Fluids.  Read this online 2017
38 Arthur, R. S., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Koseff, J. R. and O. B. Fringer 2017. “How we compute N matters to estimates of mixing in stratified flows”, in press, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2017
37 Zhou, J. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2017. “Numerical simulation of intrusive gravity currents Interacting with a bottom-mounted obstacle in a continuously stratified ambient”, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 17, 191-209 DOI 10.1007/s10652-016-9454-3.   Read this online 2017
36 Wijesekara, H. & co-authors (including Venayagamoorthy, S. K) 2016 “Decrypting a Mystery Bay – ASIRI Ocean-Atmosphere Initiatives on Bay of Bengal”, Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, October 2016, 1859-1884, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00197.1.  Read this online 2016
35 David, C., Gil. Y., Duffy, C. J., Peckham, S. D. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2016. “An introduction to the special issue on Geoscience Papers of the Future”, Earth and Space Science, 3, 441–444, doi:10.1002/2016EA000201.  Read this online 2016
34 Venayagamoorthy, S. K. and Koseff, J. R. 2016. “On the flux Richardson number in stably stratified turbulence”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 798, R1:1–10.  Read this online 2016
33 John, J., Radford, D., Venayagamoorthy, S. K. and Heyliger, P. 2016 “Elastic Field and Frequency Variation in Extendable Wind Turbine Blades, Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, 138, 054502-1:5.   Read this online 2016
32 Shroyer, E. L., Rudnick, D. L., Farrar, T., Lim, B., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., St. Laurent, L., Garanaik, A. and Moum, J. N. 2016. “Modification of upper ocean temperature structure by subsurface mixing in the presence of strong salinity stratification”, Oceanography, 29(2):62–71, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.201.39.   Read this online 2016
31 Kattnig, J. J., and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2015. “A hybrid approach for increasing baffling factors in contact tanks”, Journal of American Water Works Association, 107(12). pp E702-E711,http://dx.doi.org/10.5942/jawwa.2015.107.0164.  Read this online 2015
30 Carlston, J. C. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2015. “Impact of Modified Inlets on Residence Times in Baffled Tanks”, Journal of American Water Works Association, 107(6). pp E292-E300, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.5942/jawwa.2015.107.0078.   Read this online 2015
29 Mater, B.D., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., St. Laurent, L. and Moum, J. N. 2015. “Biases in Thorpe scale estimation of turbulence dissipation from large overturns in the ocean”, Journal of Physical Oceanography. 45: pp 2497-2521, DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0128.1.  Read this online 2015
28 Karimpour, F. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2015 “On turbulent mixing in stably stratified wall-bounded flow, Physics of Fluids, 27, 046603(2015).  Read this online 2015
27 Alford, M. and co-authors (including Venayagamoorthy, S. K.) 2015. “The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea”, Nature, 521, pp 65-69, doi:10.1038/nature14399.  Read this online 2015
26 Taylor, Z. H., Carlston, J. C. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2015. “Internal hydraulics of disinfection contact tanks”, Journal of Hydraulic Research, DOI: 10.1080/00221686.2015.1040086.  Read this online 2015
25 Wilson, J. M. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2015. “A shear-based parameterizations of turbulent mixing in the stable atmospheric boundary layer”, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 72, pp 1713-1726, DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0241.1  Read this online 2015
24 Wilson, J. M., Davis, C. J., Venayagamoorthy, S. K. and Heyliger, P. R. 2015. “Comparisons of horizontal-axis wind turbine wake interaction models “, Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, DOI: 10.1115/1.4028914.   Read this online 2015
23 Mater, B. D. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2014. “The quest for an unambiguous parameterization of mixing efficiency in staby stratified geophysical flows”, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060571.  Read this online 2014
22 Karimpour, F. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2014. “A revisit of the equilibrium assumption predicting near- wall turbulence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 760, pp 304-312.  Read this online 2014
21 Mater, B. D. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2014. “A unifying framework for parameterizing stably stratified shear-flow turbulence”, Physics of Fluids, 26, 036601 (2014)  Read this online 2014
20 Karimpour, F. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2014. “A simple turbulence model for stably stratified wall-bounded flows, Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009332, pp: 1- 11.   Read this online 2014
19 Barnett, T. C. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2014. “Laminar and Turbulent Regime Changes in Drinking Water Contact Tanks”, Journal of American Water Works Association, 106(12), DOI: 10.5942/jawwa.2014.106.0149.   Read this online 2014
18 Barnett, T. C., Kattnig, J., Venayagamoorthy, S. K. and Whittaker, G. 2014. “Improving drinking water contact tank hydraulics using random packing material”, Journal of American Water Works Association, 106(2), pp E98- 104.   Read this online 2014
17 Khandakar, N.M., Venayagamoorthy, S. K. and Dasi, L. P. 2013. “Intermittency and local dissipation scales under strong mean shear”, Physics of Fluids, 25(1), 011701; doi: 10.1063/1.4774039.  Read this online 2013
16 Karimpour, F. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2013. “Some insights for the prediction of near-wall turbulence”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, , 723, pp 126-139.  Read this online 2013
15 Mater, B. D., Schaad, S. M. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2013. “Relevance of the Thorpe length scale in stably stratified turbulence”, Physics of Fluids, 25(7),076604(2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4813809.  Read this online 2013
14 Venayagamoorthy, S. K. and Fringer, O. B. 2012. “Examining breaking internal waves on a shelf slope using numerical simulations”, Oceanography, 25(2):132139. http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.48.  Read this online 2012
13 Sangdo An, Julien, P. Y., and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2012. “Numerical Simulation of Particle-Driven Gravity Currents”, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 12(6): 495-513  Read this online 2012
12 Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Ku, H., Fringer, O. B., Koseff, J. R., Chiu, A. and Naylor, R. L. 2011. “Numerical modeling of aquaculture dissolved waste transport in a coastal embayment”, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 11, pp 329-352  Read this online 2011
11 Elliott, Z. and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2011. “Evaluation of turbulent Prandtl (Schmidt) number
parameterizations for stably stratified environmental flows”, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans,
51(2011), pp 137-150.  Read this online
2011
10 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.,2010, 44 (24), pp 9377–9382  Read this online 2010
9 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.

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2010
8 Stretch, D. D., and S. K. Venayagamoorthy (2010), Diapycnal diffusivities in homogeneous stratified turbulence, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L02602, doi:10.1029/2009GL041514.  Read this online 2009
7 Stretch, D. D., Rottman, J. W., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Nomura, K. K. and Rehmann, C. R. 2010.
“Mixing efficiency in decaying stably stratified turbulence”,
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 49(2010), pp 25-36   Read this online
2008
6 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.
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2007
5 Venayagamoorthy, S. K., and Fringer, O. B. 2007. “Internal wave energetics on a shelf break”, International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 17(1), pp 22-29 2007
4 Venayagamoorthy, S. K., and Stretch, D. D. 2006. “Lagrangian mixing in decaying stably stratified turbulence”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 564, pp 197-226.
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2006
3 Venayagamoorthy, S. K., and Fringer, O. B. 2006.
“Numerical Simulations of the interaction of internal gravity waves with a shelf break”, Physics of Fluids, 18(7), 076603/9, DOI:10.1063/1.2221863
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2006
2 Venayagamoorthy, S. K. and Fringer, O. B. 2005.
“Nonhydrostatic and nonlinear contributions to the energy flux budget in nonlinear internal waves”, Geophys. Res. Lett.}, 32, L15603, DOI:10.1029/2005GL023432
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2005
1 Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Koseff, J. R., Ferziger, J. H., and Shih, L. H. 2003.
“Testing of RANS turbulence models for stratified flows based on DNS data”, Annual Research Briefs, Center for Turbulence Research, NASA-AMES}, pp 127-138  Read this online
2003
Book Chapters and Books Top
1 Karney B., and Venayagamoorthy, S. K. 2013. “Sustainability Implications”, Handbook of Environmental
Fluid Dynamics (Editor: H. J. S. Fernando) — Taylor & Francis Publishing, Part 1: 53-62.
2013