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Welcome to Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (EFML)

We study various types of environmental fluids in nature using
observations, theories, and numerical simulations. The environmental fluids are observed using acoustic and electromagnetic sensors such as satellites, coastal radars, underwater gliders, moving platforms and stationary buoys (see a figure on the right below). The observed environmental fluids are understood with statistical and dynamical data analysis (e.g., signal processing, big data analysis, and machine learning) and theoretical frameworks (e.g., momentum equations and advection-diffusion equations). The interpreted environmental fluids are applied to the practical and engineering problems including tracking of water-borne materials (e.g., pollutants, search and rescue mission, and larvae transports), renewable energy using tides and winds, energy cascade via geophysical turbulent mixing, long-term climate changes, sensor fabrication, and spatial and temporal sampling designs.

As boundary layer flows in the air-sea-land interface and a rotating frame, you can easily find the environmental fluids around you such as coffee in a mug, water in a bathtub, rivers, lakes, atmosphere, and ocean etc.  Our primary research foci are the environmental and geophysical fluids at the mesoscale [O(100 to 10000) km] and sub-mesoscale [O(1 to 100) km] and the waves and turbulent mixing below the O(1) km scale (see a figure on the left below). Here is a brief overview on our research. PDF

Please feel free to contact me via email (syongkim at kaist dot ac dot kr) if you are interested in internship and graduate (Master and Ph.D. degrees) programs related to those research topics.

 


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