Nityanand Sinha
Former Ph.D. Student

Ph.D. Dissertation : Toward RANS parameterization of vertical mixing by Langmuir turbulence in shallow coastal shelves

  
Academic Experience

Position after USF: Post-doctoral Researcher
Argonne National Laboratory, Tampa, FL. 2014 - Present

Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL. 2009 - 2013

 
Education

Ph.D. Civil Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL. 2009 - 2014

M.S. Computational Fluid Dynamics
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. 2007

B.Sc. Chemical Engineering 2005
Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, India. 2005
Research at USF

Large-eddy simulation of turbulent mixing in coastal shelves

Publications

  1. N. Sinha, A.E. Tejada-Martinez, C. Akan and C.E. Grosch (2015) "A K-profile parameterization of Langmuir turbulence in shallow water", Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45, 2869-2895/
  2. Tejada-Martinez, A.E., C. Akan, N. Sinha, C.E. Grosch and G. Martinat (2013) "Surface dynamics in LES of full-depth Langmuir circulation in shallow water", Physica Scripta, T155, 014008.
  3. Tejada-Martinez, A.E., C.E. Grosch, N. Sinha, C. Akan and G. Martinat (2012) "Disruption of bottom log-layer in LES of full-depth Langmuir circulation", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 699, 79-93.