Joannes J. Westerink Professor and Henry J. Massman Department Chair
Notre Dame Chair in Computational Hydraulics
Concurrent Professor, Department of Applied and Computational
Mathematics and Statistics
Concurrent Professor, Department of
Computer
Science and Engineering
M.S. Civil Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1979-1981
B.S. Civil Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975-1979
R.P. Apmann Memorial Scholarship, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1979
Kaneb Teaching Award, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University. of Notre Dame, 2000
BP Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2004
Faculty Fellow, John A. Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, 2005-2006
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force Leadership Award, 2007
Department of the Army, Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, 2007
Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University. of Notre Dame, 2010.
Westerink is the co-developer of the widely used ADCIRC finite element-based shallow water equation model. ADCIRC is a robust, efficient and accurate analysis tool due to its ability to optimize unstructured grids to provide resolution where it is necessary and apply large computational domains to simplify boundary condition specification. The model is applied to compute basin scale phenomena to inlet scale flows to feature scale flows such as flow around a jetty. ADCIRC has evolved into a community-based coastal hydrodynamics model with wide ranging applications within academia, government, and the private sector worldwide. The U.S. Army and Navy extensively use the ADCIRC model worldwide to assess coastal currents and water surface elevations. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) uses ADCIRC in support of modeling tidal harmonic constituents for U.S. coasts and estuaries. ADCIRC is also being used to design the 15 billion dollar flood protection system being completed in Southern Louisiana by the Army Corps of Engineers and to evaluate flooding risk across the U.S. east and Gulf coasts by FEMA. Industrial applications of ADCIRC range from U.S. nuclear power station flood risk assessment to tidal power station design in Korea.
Professor Westerink’s current research includes algorithmic and peta-application projects from the National Science Foundation; the merging of wind, wave and current models (SWAN+ADCIRC) into a high performance scalable code for the Office of Naval Research in a joint project with Delft University; the development and validation of the ultra high resolution models for Southern Louisiana and Texas with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and numerous university and private sector partners; and marsh resistance and wave-current friction studies with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. The Computational Hydraulics Laboratory (www.nd.edu/~coast) is the forefront of developing ultra-high resolution unstructured grid multi-physics, multi-scale models for the coastal ocean and successfully transitioning these models for design and analysis of flood control and environmental impact assessment projects.
Bunya, S., J.C. Dietrich, J.J. Westerink, B.A. Ebersole, J.M. Smith, J.H. Atkinson, R. Jensen, D.T. Resio, R.A. Luettich, C. Dawson, V.J. Cardone, A.T. Cox, M.D. Powell, H.J. Westerink, H.J. Roberts, "A High Resolution Coupled Riverine Flow, Tide, Wind, Wind Wave and Storm Surge Model for Southern Louisiana and Mississippi: Part I - Model Development and Validation," Monthly Weather Review, 138, 345-377, 2010.
Dietrich, J.C., S. Bunya, J.J. Westerink, B.A. Ebersole, J.M. Smith, J.H. Atkinson, R. Jensen, D.T. Resio, R.A. Luettich, C. Dawson, V.J. Cardone, A.T. Cox, M.D. Powell, H.J. Westerink, H.J. Roberts, "A High Resolution Coupled Riverine Flow, Tide, Wind, Wind Wave and Storm Surge Model for Southern Louisiana and Mississippi: Part II - Synoptic Description and Analyses of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ," Monthly Weather Review, 138, 378-404, 2010.
Ebersole, B.A., J.J. Westerink, S. Bunya, J.C. Dietrich, M.A. Cialone, "Development of Storm Surge Which Led to Flooding in St. Bernard Polder during Hurricane Katrina," Ocean Engineering, 37, 91-103, 2010.
Dietrich, J.C., M. Zijlema, J.J. Westerink, L.H. Holthuijsen, C. Dawson, R.A. Luettich, R. Jensen, J.M. Smith, G.S. Stelling, G.W. Stone, "Modeling Hurricane Waves and Storm Surge using Integrally-Coupled, Scalable Computations," Coastal Engineering, In Press, 2010.
Wirasaet, D., S. Tanaka, E.J. Kubatko, J.J. Westerink, C. Dawson, "A Performance Comparison of Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Triangles and Quadrilaterals," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, In Press, 2010.
Tanaka, S., S. Bunya, J.J. Westerink, C. Dawson, R.A. Luettich, "Scalability of an Unstructured Grid Continuous Galerkin Based Hurricane Storm Surge Model," Journal of Scientific Computing, In Press, 2010.
Forbes, C., R.A. Luettich, C.A. Mattocks, J.J. Westerink, "A Retrospective Evaluation of the Storm Surge Produced by Hurricane Gustav (2008): Forecast and Hindcast Results," Weather and Forecasting, In Press, 2010.
Mirabito, C., C. Dawson, E.J. Kubatko, J.J. Westerink, S. Bunya, "Implementation of a Discontinuous Galerkin Morphological Model on Two-Dimensional Unstructured Meshes," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, In Press, 2010.
Dietrich, J.C., J.J. Westerink, A.B. Kennedy, J.M. Smith, R. Jensen, M. Zijlema, L.H. Holthuijsen, C. Dawson, R.A. Luettich, Jr., M.D. Powell, V.J. Cardone, A.T. Cox, G.W. Stone, H. Pourtaheri, M.E. Hope, S. Tanaka, L.G. Westerink, H.J. Westerink, Z. Cobell, "Hurricane Gustav (2008) Waves, Storm Surge and Currents: Hindcast and Synoptic Analysis in Southern Louisiana," Monthly Weather Review, In Review, 2010.
Dawson, C. E.J. Kubatko, J.J. Westerink, C. Trahana, C. Mirabito, C. Michoskia, N. Pandaa, "Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Modeling Hurricane Storm Surge," Advances in Water Resources, In Review, 2010.
Kennedy, A.B., U. Gravois, B.C. Zachry, J.J. Westerink, M.E. Hope, J.C. Dietrich, M.D. Powell, A.T. Cox, R.A. Luettich Jr., R.G. Dean, "Hurricane Ike Forerunner Surge: Origin and Implications," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, In Review. 2010.
Bunya, S., E.J. Kubatko, J.J. Westerink, C. Dawson, "A Wetting and Drying Treatment for the Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Solution to the Shallow Water Equations," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 198, 1548-1562, 2009.
Kubatko, E.J., S. Bunya, C. Dawson, J.J. Westerink, "Dynamic p-adaptive Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Shallow Water Equations," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 198, 1766-1774, 2009.
Kubatko, E.J., S. Bunya, C. Dawson, J.J. Westerink, C. Mirabito, "A Performance Comparison of Continuous and Discontinuous Finite Element Shallow Water Models," Journal of Scientific Computing, 30, 315-339, 2009.
Westerink, J.J., R.A. Luettich , J.C. Feyen, J.H. Atkinson, , C. Dawson, H.J. Roberts, M.D. Powell, J.P. Dunion, E.J. Kubatko, H. Pourtaheri, "A Basin to Channel Scale Unstructured Grid Hurricane Storm Surge Model Applied to Southern Louisiana," Monthly Weather Review, 136, 3, 833-864, 2008.
Resio, D.T. and J.J. Westerink, "Hurricanes and the Physics of Surges," Physics Today, 61, 9, 33-38, 2008.
Kubatko, E.J., C. Dawson, J.J. Westerink, "Time Step Restrictions for Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Triangular Grids," Journal Computational Physics, 227, 9697-9710, 2008.
Bunya S. and J.J. Westerink, "Hurricane Katrina Storm Surge Hindcast Using a Coupled Storm Surge, Wind Wave, and Tidal Current Model on an Unstructured Grid," (in Japanese), Annual Journal of Coastal Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 55, 316-320, 2008.
Kubatko, E.J and J.J. Westerink, "Exact Discontinuous Solutions of Exner's Bed Evolution Model: Simple Theory for Sediment Bores," Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 133, 305-311, 2007.
Kubatko, E.J., J.J. Westerink and C. Dawson, "Semi-discrete Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Stage Exceeding Order Strong Stability Preserving Runge-Kutta Time Discretizations," Journal of Computational Physics, 222, 832-848, 2007.
Ebersole, B.A., D. Resio, and J.J. Westerink, "A Community Approach to Improved Prediction and Characterization of Coastal Storm Hazards," Marine Technology Society Journal, 40, 4, 56-68, 2006/2007.
Bunya, S., S. Yoshimura and J.J. Westerink, "Improvements in the Mass Conservation Using Alternative Boundary Implementations for a Quasi Bubble Finite Element Shallow Water Model," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 51, 1277-1296, 2006.
Dawson, C., J.J. Westerink, J.C. Feyen and D. Pothina, "Continuous, Discontinuous and Coupled Discontinuous-Continuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for the Shallow Water Equations," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 52, 63-88, 2006.
Kubatko, E.J., J.J. Westerink and C. Dawson, "An Unstructured Grid Morphodynamic Model with a Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Bed Evolution," Ocean Modeling, 15, 71-89, 2006.
Kubatko, E.J., J.J. Westerink and C. Dawson, "hp Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Advection Dominated Problems in Shallow Water Flow," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 196, 437-451, 2006.
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Hurricane Storm Surge Prediction
Geophysical Turbulence Modeling
Numerical Modeling of the Convection-Diffusion and Navier-Stokes Equations
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Aaron Donahue
Michael Hartman
Mark Hope
Daniel Iwanski
Patrick Kerr
Rosanne Martyr
Andika Suhardjo
Seizo Tanaka
Hans Westerink
Lee Westerink
Damrongsak Wirasaet
Hydraulics
Advanced Hydraulics
Modeling Surface Water Flow and Transport
Computational Methods
Finite Elements in Engineering