Bing Wang

Ph.D. Candidate
Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stanford University

Address:
The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building
473 Via Ortega, Office M11
Stanford, CA 94305
Office: (650) 723-1825

E-Mail: bingwang at stanford dot edu


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. It is part of a collaborative effort with the Applied Physics Laboratory at University of Washington in the Coherent Structures in Rivers and Estuaries Experiment (COHSTREX) project. 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.

CURRICULUM VITAE

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate,(2005-present), Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Stanford University, USA

M.S., (2003-2005), Environmental Engineering, University Of Illiois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

B.S., (1999-2003), Environmental Engineering and Science, Tsinghua University, China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Multi-scale numerical simulations of estuarine flows
  • Physics and modeling of the nonlinear tidal dynamics in shallow estuaries
  • Small-scale turbulent coherent structures caused by an abrupt sill and scourholes
  • Small-scale flow structures in a converging front at a channel bifurcation
  • Physics and modeling of stratified turbulent mixing in estuaries
  • Thermodynamics with water-air-mudflat interactions
  • Modeling of wetting and drying
  • Numerical methods for sovling nonlinear advection of momentum
  • High-order interpolations on unstructured grids

    • PUBLICATIONS

    Wang, B., G. Zhao and O.B. Fringer. 2010. Reconstruction of vector fields for semi-Lagrangian advection on unstructured, staggered grids. Ocean Modelling. Submitted.

    Wang, B., S.N. Giddings, O.B. Fringer, E.S. Gross, D.A. Fong, S.G. Monismith. 2010. Modeling and understanding the dynamics of turbulence and stratification in a macrotidal salt wedge estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research. In press.

    Plant, W.J., R. Branch, G. Chatham, C. C. Chickadel, K. Hayes, B. Hayworth, A. Horner-Devine, A. Jessup, D. A. Fong, O. B. Fringer, S. N. Giddings, S. Monismith, and B. Wang, "Remotely Sensed River Surface Features Compared with Modeling and In-Situ Measurements", 2009, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, C11002, doi:10.1029/2009JC05440.

    Wang, B., O. B. Fringer, S. N. Giddings, and D. A. Fong, 2009, "High-resolution simulations of a macrotidal estuary using SUNTANS", Ocean Modelling, 26, 60-85. PDF

    PROCEEDINGS AND CONFERENCES

    Fringer, O.B., B. Wang. 2010. Analysis of stratified flow and separation over complex bathymetry in a field-scale estuarine model. Proceedings of the DoD HPCMP Users Group Conference, 2010, DOD HPCMP, in press (invited)

    Wang, B., S.N. Giddings, O.B. Fringer, E.S. Gross, D.A. Fong, S.G. Monismith. 2010. Modeling and understanding turbulent mixing in a macrotidal salt wedge estuary. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon. (poster)

    Fringer, O.B., B. Wang. 2010. Challenges in high-resolution simulations of macrotidal estuaries. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon. (invited poster)

    Wang, B., O.B. Fringer. 2008. Understanding the nonhydrostatic effects in a complex macro-tidal tidal-river estuary with a numerical model. The 7th International Workshop on Unstructured Grid Modeling of Coastal Shelf and Ocean flows, Halifax, NS, Canada. (talk)

    Wang, B., O.B. Fringer, 2008, High-resolution simulations of a salinity front interacting with complex geometry and intertidal mudflats, AGU Ocean Sciences Mtng., Orlando (invited talk).

    Wang, B., O.B. Fringer. 2007. Modeling the dynamics of the Snohomish river Estuary with a finite-volume, unstructured-grid parallel coastal ocean simulator. The 5th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, Tempe, AZ, US. (proceeding and talk)

    Wang, B., O.B. Fringer and M. Gerritsen, 2007, Numerical techniques in a parallel, unstructured-grid, finite-volume coastal ocean simulation tool, Ninth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (invited talk).

    Wang, B., O.B. Fringer, and R.L. Street. 2006. Application of an unstructured-grid, finite-volume parallel coastal ocean simulator to the Snohomish River Estuary: preliminary results. The 5th International Workshop on Unstructured Grid Modeling of Coastal Shelf and Ocean flows, Miami, FL, US. (poster)