Joannes Westerink
Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
Notre Dame Professor of Computational Hydraulics
Chair, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
- Computational fluid mechanics
- Hurricane storm surge
- Levee design
- Unstructured mesh coastal ocean hydrodynamic and transport codes
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U.S. Civil Engineers Bent the Rules to Give New Orleans Extra Protection from Hurricanes. Those Adjustments Might Have Saved the City During Ida
September 02, 2021
Joannes Westerink, a civil engineer and computational hydrologist at the University of Notre Dame, has spent much of his career developing software to predict hurricane storm surges.
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