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Dr. Firat Y. Testik
Office: 318 Lowry Hall
Phone: (864) 656-0484
FAX: (864) 656-2670
email Dr. Testik
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Areas of Interest:
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Coastal Hydrodynamics
Precipitation Microphysics
Sediment Transport
Physical Modeling and Experimentation
Education:
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, in 1999
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Minnesota, in 2000
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, 2003
Classes typically taught:
Fluid Mechanics
Coastal Engineering
Professional Society Membership:
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
American Physical Society
American Geophysical Union
The Oceanography Society
Sample Publications:
Barros, A.P., Prat O.P., Shrestha, P., Testik F.Y., Bliven, L.F., "Revisiting Low and List (1982): Evaluation of Raindrop Collision Parameterizations Using Laboratory Observations and Modelling", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, (accepted, 2008).
Testik, F.Y., Young, D.M., "Breakup patterns for binary drop collisions", J. Visualization, 11(1), (2008).
Testik, F.Y., Barros, A.P., "Towards elucidating the microstructure of rainfall: a survey", Reviews of Geophysics, 45, RG2003, doi: 10.1029/2005RG000182, (2007).
Testik, F.Y., Voropayev, S.I., Fernando H.J.S., Balasubramanian, S., "Studies of scour/burial of Mines in the shoaling zone: laboratory modeling and validation with field observations" IEEE - Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 32 (1), (2007).
Voropayev, S.I., Testik, F.Y., Fernando H.J.S., Balasubramanian, S., "Sediment transport, ripple dynamics, and object burial under shoaling waves" book chapter in Particle Laden Flow: From Geophysical to Kolomogorov Scales, Eds. B.J. Geurts, H.J.H. Clercx, W.S.J. Uijttewaal, Springer Science (2007).
Testik, F.Y., Barros, A.P., L.F. Bliven, "Field Observations of Raindrop Oscillations by High-speed Imaging", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63 (10), p.p. 2663-2667 (2006).
Testik, F.Y., Voropayev, S.I., Balasubramanian, S., Fernando H.J.S., "Self-similarity of asymmetric sand-ripple profiles formed under nonlinear shoaling waves", Physics of Fluids, 18, 108101 (2006).
Testik, F.Y., Voropayev, S.I., Fernando H.J.S., "Flow around a short horizontal bottom cylinder under steady and oscillatory flows", Physics of Fluids, 17, 047103 (2005).
Testik, F.Y., Voropayev, S.I., and Fernando H.J.S., "Adjustment of sand ripples under changing water waves", Physics of Fluids, 17, 072104 (2005).
Voropayev, S.I., Smirnov S.A., Testik F.Y., "On the case when steady converging/diverging flow of a non-Newtonian fluid in a round cone permits an exact solution", Mechanics Research Communications, 31 (4) p.p. 477-482 (2004).
Voropayev, S.I., Testik, F.Y., Fernando H.J.S., Boyer D.L., "Burial and scour around short cylinder under progressive shoaling waves", Ocean Engineering., 30 (13) p.p. 1647-1667 (2003).
Voropayev, S.I., Testik, F.Y., Fernando H.J.S., Boyer, D.L., "Morphodynamics and cobbles behavior in and near the surf zone", Ocean Engineering., 30 (14) p.p. 1741-1764 (2003).
Research Team Web Page:
http://www.clemson.edu/ce/coastal
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