Modeling

Ever since I became interested in science, I started to have a vague idea that calculus, matrix algebra, partial differential equations, and numerical methods are all fundamental to the physical sciences and engineering and they are linked in some way to each other. The emphasis here is on the word vague; I have to admit that I had no clear, detailed understanding of how these links actually work. It seems like my formal education both in math and physics stopped just short of where everything would have nicely come together. Papers that are really important in geomorphology, sedimentology or stratigraphy seemed impossible to read as soon as they started assuming that I knew quite a bit about convective acceleration, numerical schemes, boundary conditions, and Cholesky factorization. Because I didn’t. ...

Turbidity currents, and other types of submarine sediment density flow, redistribute more sediment across the surface of the Earth than any other sediment flow process, yet their sediment concentratio…

Sedimentological observations, planktonic microfossil data, terrigenous index proxy data, benthic morphogroup analyses, pressure analyses and geochemical fingerprinting were integrated in order to ass…

A three-dimensional unsteady numerical model is applied to simulate turbidity currents in deep submarine canyons located on the continental slope of the Niger Delta. In one of the few attempts to comp…

[1] In the present work, we use a three‐dimensional numerical model to simulate turbidity currents in a large‐scale submarine environment. The model solves the Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes equation…

Channel-levee systems are frequently interpreted as having a long history of cut-and-fill by channel-shaped features of different scales. Results from a simple geometric model based on a centerline mi…