Hello friends and colleagues!
It’s week 1! This week visiting us from the University of New Hampshire, we have Dr. Teri Oehmke, who will be presenting on particle and pollutant transport in complex flows:
“Experiments are a powerful method to study the kinematic transport of pollutants in the environment, specifically those pollutants transported by turbulent flow. My research thus far has focused on using experiments to characterize the interactions of turbulence, particles, and solutes. Using large-scale facilities, these experiments are able to capture dynamics such as Earth’s atmospheric boundary layer and near-shore coastal processes. In this talk I will first show the experiments and model that I am building to identify the source location for a methane plume from a natural gas leak. I will then connect the transport model approach for methane to seed particle plume transport in the Great Bay Estuary, which I am investigating with an oscillating water tunnel to simulate wave motion over sediment and vegetative beds.”
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