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  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions in understanding liddriven cavity flow and transport phenomena in coupled physicalbiological systems, and seminal contributions to the theory of stratified turbulence and internal wave breaking

Overview

Jeffrey R. Koseff is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans a variety of fields related to earth and environmental sciences, with significant contributions to studying physical processes in natural fluid environments.

The main fields of study of their work include Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Within these broader domains, their research focuses on the subfields of Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Ocean Engineering.

The researcher's work covers several major topics:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Geological formations and processes

They have contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • UNC Libraries
  • Water Resources Research
  • Environmental Research Letters

Recent representative papers include:

  • "A field investigation into the effects of a kelp forest (Macrocystis pyrifera) on coastal hydrodynamics and transport," 2022, UNC Libraries
  • "Settling of inertial nonspherical particles in wavy flow," 2020, Physical Review Fluids
  • "Local and Nonlocal Impacts of Gaps on Submerged Canopy Flow," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Dispersion of finite-size, non-spherical particles by waves and currents," 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Turbulence structure and scales in canopy-wake reattachment," 2021, Physical Review Fluids

Frequent collaborators found in their work include:

  • Nicholas T. Ouellette
  • Hayoon Chung
  • Stephen G. Monismith
  • Laura K. C. Sunberg
  • Young R. Yi

Jeffrey R. Koseff was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015 for contributions relevant to fluid flow and transport phenomena, including work related to liddriven cavity flow, stratified turbulence, internal wave breaking, and coupled physical-biological systems.

Best Publications

  • A dynamic mixed subgrid‐scale model and its application to turbulent recirculating flows

    Yan Zang;Robert L. Street;Jeffrey R. Koseff

  • A non-staggered grid, fractional step method for time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in curvilinear coordinates

    Yan Zang;Robert L. Street;Jeffrey R. Koseff

  • The Lid-Driven Cavity Flow: A Synthesis of Qualitative and Quantitative Observations

    J. R. Koseff;R. L. Street

  • Density Stratification, Turbulence, but How Much Mixing?

    Gregory Ivey;K.B. Winters;J.R. Koseff

  • Parameterization of turbulent fluxes and scales using homogeneous sheared stably stratified turbulence simulations

    Lucinda H. Shih;Jeffrey R. Koseff;Gregory N. Ivey;Joel H. Ferziger

  • Spectral wave dissipation over a barrier reef

    Ryan J. Lowe;James L. Falter;Marion D. Bandet;Geno Pawlak

  • Reynolds number and end‐wall effects on a lid‐driven cavity flow

    Ajay K. Prasad;Jeffrey R. Koseff

  • Oscillatory flow through submerged canopies: 1. Velocity structure

    Ryan J. Lowe;Jeffrey R. Koseff;Stephen G. Monismith

  • Visualization Studies of a Shear Driven Three-Dimensional Recirculating Flow

    J. R. Koseff;R. L. Street

  • Combined forced and natural convection heat transfer in a deep lid-driven cavity flow

    Ajay K. Prasad;Jeffrey R. Koseff

  • A numerical study of the evolution and structure of homogeneous stably stratified sheared turbulence

    Steven E. Holt;Jeffrey R. Koseff;Joel H. Ferziger

  • Turbulence in stratified shear flows: implications for interpreting shear-induced mixing in the ocean

    E. C. Itsweire;J. R. Koseff;D. A. Briggs;J. H. Ferziger

  • Numerical simulation of three‐dimensional flow in a cavity

    Christopher J. Freitas;Robert L. Street;Angelos N. Findikakis;Jeffrey R. Koseff

  • On End Wall Effects in a Lid-Driven Cavity Flow

    J. R. Koseff;R. L. Street

  • Boundary layer turbulence and flow structure over a fringing coral reef

    Matthew A. Reidenbach;Stephen G. Monismith;Jeffrey R. Koseff;Gitai Yahel

  • Spatial patterns of flow and their modification within and around a giant kelp forest

    Brian Gaylord;Johanna Heidi Rosman;Daniel C. Reed;Jeffrey R. Koseff

  • Effects of spatial and temporal variability of turbidity on phytoplankton blooms

    Christine L. May;Jeffrey R. Koseff;Lisa V. Lucas;James E. Cloern

  • Processes governing phytoplankton blooms in estuaries. II: The role of horizontal transport

    Lisa V. Lucas;Jeffrey R. Koseff;Stephen G. Monismith;James E. Cloern

  • High-resolution measurements of the spatial and temporal scalar structure of a turbulent plume

    J. P. Crimaldi;J. R. Koseff

  • Lobster Sniffing: Antennule Design and Hydrodynamic Filtering of Information in an Odor Plume

    M. A. R. Koehl;Jeffrey R. Koseff;John P. Crimaldi;Michael G. McCay

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen G. Monismith
Stephen G. Monismith Stanford University
Robert L. Street
Robert L. Street Stanford University
Nicholas T. Ouellette
Nicholas T. Ouellette Stanford University
Joel H. Ferziger
Joel H. Ferziger Stanford University
Oliver B. Fringer
Oliver B. Fringer Stanford University
Amatzia Genin
Amatzia Genin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John O. Dabiri
John O. Dabiri California Institute of Technology
Ryan J. Lowe
Ryan J. Lowe University of Western Australia
Mark T. Stacey
Mark T. Stacey University of California, Berkeley
James E. Cloern
James E. Cloern United States Geological Survey

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