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Overview

Omar M. Knio is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research spans multiple fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with a significant focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change. The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate variability and models, Fractional Differential Equations Solutions, Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

Knio's recent publications demonstrate a diverse engagement across interdisciplinary domains. Selected papers include:

  • "A review of hydrogen production and supply chain modeling and optimization", 2023, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • "Towards an End-to-End Analysis and Prediction System for Weather, Climate, and Marine Applications in the Red Sea", 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Visualization and Visual Analytics Approaches for Image and Video Datasets: A Survey", 2023, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
  • "Time-series weather prediction in the Red sea using ensemble transformers", 2024, Applied Soft Computing
  • "Evaluating Cumulus Parameterization Schemes for the Simulation of Arabian Peninsula Winter Rainfall", 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with the most common coauthors being Ibrahim Hoteit, Mohamad Abed El Rahman Hammoud, Olivier Le Maı̂tre, Sabique Langodan, and Ricardo Lima.

Knio's work has been disseminated through various publication venues, with multiple contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), Computational Geosciences, Ocean Engineering, Combustion and Flame, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Best Publications

  • Spectral methods for uncertainty quantification : with applications to computational fluid dynamics

    O. P. Le Maître;O. M. Knio

  • Spectral Methods for Uncertainty Quantification

    O. P. Le Maître;Omar M. Knio

  • Numerical Challenges in the Use of Polynomial Chaos Representations for Stochastic Processes

    Bert J. Debusschere;Habib N. Najm;Philippe P. Pébay;Omar M. Knio

  • Uncertainty propagation using Wiener-Haar expansions

    O. P. Le Maître;O. M. Knio;H. N. Najm;R. G. Ghanem

  • A stochastic projection method for fluid flow II.: random process

    Olivier P. Le Maîetre;Matthew T. Reagan;Habib N. Najm;Roger G. Ghanem

  • Multi-resolution analysis of wiener-type uncertainty propagation schemes

    O. P. Le Maître;H. N. Najm;R. G. Ghanem;O. M. Knio

  • Uncertainty quantification in reacting-flow simulations through non-intrusive spectral projection

    Matthew T. Reagan;Habib N. Najm;Roger G. Ghanem;Omar M. Knio

  • Uncertainty propagation in CFD using polynomial chaos decomposition

    O.M. Knio;O.P. Le Maître

  • A Semi-implicit Numerical Scheme for Reacting Flow

    Habib N. Najm;Peter S. Wyckoff;Omar M. Knio

  • Joining of stainless-steel specimens with nanostructured Al/Ni foils

    J. Wang;E. Besnoin;A. Duckham;S. J. Spey

  • Room-temperature soldering with nanostructured foils

    J. Wang;E. Besnoin;A. Duckham;S. J. Spey

  • A review of hydrogen production and supply chain modeling and optimization

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  • Reactive nanostructured foil used as a heat source for joining titanium

    A. Duckham;S. J. Spey;J. Wang;M. E. Reiss

  • SPH Modelling of Water Waves

    Robert A. Dalrymple;Omar Knio

  • Effect of varying bilayer spacing distribution on reaction heat and velocity in reactive Al/Ni multilayers

    Robert Knepper;Murray R. Snyder;Greg Fritz;Kaitlynn Fisher

  • Freestanding reactive multilayer foils

    Timothy P. Weihs;Todd Hufnagel;Omar Knio;Michael Reiss

  • Numerical study of a three-dimensional vortex method

    Omar M. Knio;Ahmed F. Ghoniem

  • Effect of reactant and product melting on self-propagating reactions in multilayer foils

    Etienne Besnoin;Stefano Cerutti;Omar M. Knio;Timothy P. Weihs

  • Regular Article: A Semi-implicit Numerical Scheme for Reacting Flow

    Omar M Knio;Habib N Najm;Peter S Wyckoff

  • Investigating the effect of applied pressure on reactive multilayer foil joining

    J. Wang;E. Besnoin;O.M. Knio;T.P. Weihs

  • A Study of Flame Observables in Premixed Methane - Air Flames

    H. N. Najm;O. M. Knio;P. H. Paul;P.S. Wyckoff

  • Spectral stochastic uncertainty quantification in chemical systems

    M T Reagan;H N Najm;B J Debusschere;O P Le Maître

  • Numerical predictions of oscillatory combustion in reactive multilayers

    S. Jayaraman;O. M. Knio;A. B. Mann;T. P. Weihs

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy P. Weihs
Timothy P. Weihs Johns Hopkins University
Ibrahim Hoteit
Ibrahim Hoteit King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Habib N. Najm
Habib N. Najm Sandia National Laboratories
Rupert Klein
Rupert Klein Freie Universität Berlin
Roger Ghanem
Roger Ghanem University of Southern California
Todd C. Hufnagel
Todd C. Hufnagel Johns Hopkins University
Jiaping Wang
Jiaping Wang Tsinghua University
Clint Dawson
Clint Dawson The University of Texas at Austin
Charles Meneveau
Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University

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