Bing Wang

I am working with Professor Oliver Fringer and Professor Robert Street in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University. My doctoral research involves the development of a high-resolution multi-scale numerical model for a macrotidal shallow estuary, using a state-of-the-art three-dimensional hydrodynamic solver SUNTANS. The goal is to understand the large-scale tidal flows and mixing, the small-scale flow interaction with bathymetric features, and the interplays between these scales. The physical processes in estuaries have a wide range of scales, from on the order of years and months, down to minutes and seconds. Processes involving multiple scales are ubiquitous. Although it is currently too computationally expensive to develop multi-scale models for Engineering purposes, it will certainly become a very useful tool with the continuing development of computers and numerical techniques in near future.