Students (Ph.D.)

These are the students that I have supervised or co-supervised to the completion of Ph.D. degrees, or whose studies towards a Ph.D. are still in progress.

  • Bernard Laval (Ph.D. 2003)

    Modelling transport in lakes and estuaries

    Co-Supervisors:

    — Jorg Imberger (University of Western Australia)

    — Ben R. Hodges (University of Texas at Austin)

  • Bridget M. Wadzuk (Ph.D. 2004)

    Hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic internal wave models

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project Funding: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award

  • Jordan E. Furnans (Ph.D. 2005)

    Drifter modeling and error assessment in wind driven currents

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project support:

    — Texas Water Development Board

    — Fulbright Scholarship to J. Furnans,

    — Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia.

  • Daniel Botelho (Ph.D. 2006)

    Non-hydrostatic modelling of stratified flow in lakes and reservoirs.

    Co-Supervisors:

    — Jorg Imberger (University of Western Australia)

    — Ben R. Hodges (University of Texas at Austin)

  • Shipeng Fu (Ph.D. 2008)

    A Time-centered split for implicit discretization of unsteady advection problems

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project funding: U.S. National Science Foundation Grant 0710901.

  • Dharhas Pothina (Ph.D. 2009)

    A Multimodel approach to modeling bay circulation in shallow Bay – ship channel systems

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project funding: Texas Water Development Board

  • Paula S. Kulis (Ph.D. 2011)

    Modeling a gravity current in a shallow fluid system

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project funding:

    — U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship to P. Kulis

    — U.S. NSF Grant BES 0414259

  • Xianglong Hou (Ph.D. 2015)

    Quantitative risk analysis in a numerical oil spill modeling system in offshore, bays, and estuaries

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project funding: Texas General Land Office (TGLO)

  • Chan-Hoo Jeon (Ph.D. 2015)

    Modeling of debris flows and induced phenomena with non-Newtonian fluid models

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

  • Gihye Shin (Ph.D. 2016)

    A subgrid approach for unresolved topography in shallow water hydrodynamic modeling

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project funding: Korea Water

  • Muhammad Ashraf (2018)

    Interception capacity of curb opening inlets

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project funding: Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)

  • Zhi Li (2019)

    Representing effects of subgrid-scale topography on coarse-grid hydrodynamic models for shallow coastal marshes

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project funding: Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)

  • Dongyu Feng (2019)

    Quantifying transport process uncertainty for oil spill modeling across the bay-shelf continuum

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project Funding: Texas General Land Office (TGLO)

  • Yongsik Kim (2019)

    Investigating the mechanism of pressure flushing

    Co-supervisors: Ben R. Hodges, Blair Johnson

    Project funding: Korea Water

  • Cheng-Wei (Justin) Yu (2020)

    Towards practical models of Continental River Dynamics with the Saint-Venant equations

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project funding:

    — U.S. National Science Foundation Grant CCF-1331610.

    — IBM Research Austin.

  • Kyungmin Kim (in progress)

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

  • Edward Tiernan (in progress)

    Stormwater network subdivisions for parallel computation

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project Funding:  US EPA cooperative agreement 83595001

  • Sazzad Sharior (in progress)

    Hydraulics elements of stormwater systems

    Supervisor: Ben R. Hodges

    Project Funding:  US EPA cooperative agreement 83595001