Evaporation, water quantity modelling, water use in pollution control, watershed simulation, surfactant control of evaporation from reservoirs, thermal modelling of lakes, drop dynamics in cooling towers.
Project Title: “A modeling study of water shortages in the Savannah River basin: Sensitivity of water availability to evaporative loss and climate change”
Dates: 05/2012 - 05/2013
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nigel B. Kaye
Co-Investigator(s): Dr. John R. Saylor
Sponsoring Agency: SC Water Resources Center (USGS/DOI)
Project Title:“Enhancing satellite measurements of water surface temperature using a thermal model of the lake surface for improved evaporation estimates”
Dates:05/2013 - 05/2014
Principal Investigator:Dr. John R. Saylor
Co-Investigator(s):Dr. Nigel B. Kaye
Sponsoring Agency: SC Water Resources Center (USGS/DOI)
W. Ran, J. R. Saylor & R. G. Holt, Improved particle scavenging by a combination of ultrasonics and water sprays, J. Aerosol Sci. vol. 67, pp. 104-118 (2014).
S. M. Bower & J. R. Saylor, Sherwood-Rayleigh parameterization for evaporation in the presence of surfactant monolayers, AIChE J. vol. 59, pp. 303-315 (2013).
T. A. Conover & J. R. Saylor, Statistics of the surface temperature field of an air/water interface under air flow, Experiments in Fluids vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 509-524 (2007).