Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Interaction between Turbulence Structures and Suspended Sediment in Rivers

This work actually pre-dates the SERV initiative, but it's a perfect fit for the mission. Mark Schmeeckle and his graduate student, Ryosuke Akahori, are working with the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center to determine how to prevent sandbars in the Colorado River from washing away. Shown below is a screen capture of their simulation of sand particle motion.


Aashish Chaudhary (Lead Programmer) of Decision Theater lead this visualization effort. Other contributors were Jessica Block (Research Scientist) and Perry Miller (Assistant Director). A detailed discussion of the research can be found here.

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