Jerome P.-Y. Maa

Education

• B.S., M.S., National Cheng-Kung University
• Ph.D., University of Florida

Research Interests

My interests lie in two primary areas: cohesive sediment transport and water wave mechanics. In the first research area, I have developed the VIMS Sea Carousel for in situ experiments to identify the critical bed shear stress and erosion rate  for sediment resuspension. Currently we are working on (1) developing acoustic methods to measure the bulk density profile on the micro scale level, (2) developing in-situ approaches for a better settling velocity measurements, (3) carrying out rheological properties measurements of consoliding and consolidated sediment beds,  and (4) proposing realistic formulations for simulating erosion and deposition process.   The ultimatel objective is to have a better modeling capability for cohesive sediment transport.

The other research area is on water wave mechanics includes wave hindcast, wave transformation, wave measuring and associated sediment transport processes. Our work involves numerical simulation on wave transformation (i.e., RIDE model) as well as field measurements (e.g., x-band radar for wave remote sensing and star-wave gauges for directional wave spectra) to address shoreline response problems.

Publications

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