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Current OTRC Principal Investigators

Texas A&M University Research Park Campus

Charles Aubeny, Associate Professor

Geotechnical Engineering

Research Interests: Soil Modeling, numerical methods, in situ testing, deep foundations, and dams and levees.

caubeny@civil.tamu.edu
979-845-4478

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Kuang-an Chang, Associate Professor

Coastal & Ocean Engineering

Research Interests: Wave breaking processes; wave-structure interactions; sediment dynamics; environmental fluid mechanics; non-intrusive quantitative measurement techniques.

kchang@civil.tamu.edu
979-845-4504

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Hamn-Ching Chen, Professor

Coastal & Ocean Engineering

Research Interests: Turbulence modeling; computational ship and submarine hydrodynamics; nonlinear wave/body/wake interactions; unsteady three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations.

hcchen@civil.tamu.edu
979-847-9468

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Moo-Hyun Kim, Professor

Coastal & Ocean Engineering

Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamics of offshore platforms; wave mechanics and free-surface flows; nonlinear stochastic analysis; computational fluid dynamics; hydroelasticity; floating breakwaters; beach erosion.

m-hkim3@tamu.edu
979-847-8710

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University of Texas at Austin Campus

Robert Gilbert, Professor

Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Performance reliability and risk management for geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems; waste containment; site remediation; slope stability; offshore foundations

bob_gilbert@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-3688

John Tassoulas, Professor

Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Structural mechanics; constitutive equations of materials; wave propagation; numerical analysis

yannis@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4553
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