Mike Barad

Contact Information

MFBarad@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae: Short or Long

Presentations

• DOE CSGF Annual Fellows' Conference (June 20-22, 2006) - An Embedded Boundary Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Highly Nonlinear Internal Waves (PDF, pastSillAll.mpg, breakSmooth10cm.mpg, break3d.mpg) (talk)

• AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences 2006 (Feb 20-24, 2006) - An Adaptive Multiscale Numerical Method for Highly Nonlinear Internal Waves (PDF, break3d.mpg) (poster)

• 9th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling (ECM9) (Nov 1, 2005) - An Embedded Boundary Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Environmental Flows (PDF, break.mpg, scalarsBreak.mpg, breakSmooth10cm.mpg, lockAMR_zoom.mpg, slipperySlope.mpg, intrusion.gif) (talk)

• Stanford EFMH (May 16, 2005) - An Embedded Boundary Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Environmental Flows (PDF, break.mpg, scalarsBreak.mpg, breakSmooth10cm.mpg, slipperySlope.mpg, swirl2d3Lev.mpg, scalar3d.mpg) (invited talk)

Recent Publications

• Barad, M. "An Adaptive Cartesian Grid Projection Method for Environmental Flows", PhD Dissertation, U.C. Davis, 2006.
• Schwartz, P., Barad, M., Colella, P., Ligocki, T., 2005. "A Cartesian grid embedded boundary method for the heat equation and Poisson's equation in three dimensions", Journal of Computational Physics, 211(2), 531-550
• Barad, M. and Colella, P., 2005 "A fourth-order accurate local refinement method for Poisson's equation", Journal of Computational Physics, 209(1), 1-18
• Ganju, N., Schoellhamer, D., Warner, J., Barad, M., and Schladow, S.G., 2004 "Tidal oscillation of sediment between a river and a bay", Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 60(1), 81-90

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Recent Results

Breaking Internal Waves:

Intrusive Gravity Currents:

(Soon to be) Flow in Lake Tahoe:

(Soon to be) Flow Past a Coral (thanks to Dr. Jaap A. Kaandorp for the Madracis Mirabilis CT scan data):

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