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The Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology Group (CH2G) at NMBU studies the complex interactions driving coastal flooding and storm surges—linking wind, waves, circulation, geomorphology, and rainfall—using high-resolution models and scalable numerical methods. Our main tool is the ADCIRC model, developed in collaboration with leading U.S. universities and global partners.

About the group

  • Research areas

    We investigate the use of high-performance computing to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in environmental fluid mechanics models. We develop models and numerical methods to improve understanding of the mechanisms of flooding and storm surges involved in tightly coupled wind, waves, circulation, geomorphology, and rainfall. We develop high resolution descriptions of the physical domain and adaptively resolve energetic flow scales, and investigate accurate, robust and highly parallelizable numerical algorithms.

  • Collaborators

    The ADvanced CIRculation modeling framework (ADCIRC) is our workhorse finite element coastal ocean model. We contribute to it through collaboration between and the University of Texas at Austin, University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and a number of other collaborators across the U.S. and around the world.

Members

  • Scientific staff
  • PhD candidates and post doctors

Publications