Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu

Professor and Director of Center for Applied Coastal Research
205 Ocean Engineering Lab
Newark, Delaware 19716
Phone: 302-831-4172
Research Website

EDUCATION

2002 | Ph.D | Cornell University
1999 | Master | Cornell University
1994 | Bachelor | National Taiwan University

SHORT BIO

Tian-Jian Hsu (Tom) is currently Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director of Center for Applied Coastal Research at the University of Delaware (UD). Before joining UD, he was an Assistant Professor of the University of Florida (2006~2008) and Assistant Scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2004~2006). Hsu earned a bachelor degree (Ocean Engineering) from National Taiwan University in 1994 and a PhD degree (Civil Engineering) from Cornell University in 2002. He received the NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2007. Between 2015 to 2019, he served as an executive committee member of Community Surface Dynamics and System (CSDMS) and was elected to be the Chair of Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working group of CSDMS in 2015. He served as Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans between 2011~2019. Hsu is a member of the American Geophysical Union and American Society of Civil Engineers,

Hsu’s main research covers numerical modeling/simulation of various non-cohesive and cohesive sediment transport, including wave-driven on/offshore transport and their effect on beach profile evolution, and flocculation of cohesive sediments. More recently, his research focused toward heterogeneous sediment processes, such as size grading, interaction of mud, sand and oil droplets, and evolution of bedforms. His group devoted major efforts to develop open-source numerical tools for sediment transport in the OpenFOAM framework as well as a new pseudo-spectral scheme for turbulence-resolving fine sediment transport in bottom boundary layers.

RESEARCH AREAS/SUSTAINABILITY

• Coastal and Ocean

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Nagel, T., Chauchat, J., Bonamy, C., Liu, X., Cheng Z., Hsu T.-J. (2020) Three-dimensional scour simulations with a two-phase flow model, Advances in Water Resources, 138, 103544.
2. Zhao K., Vowinckel B., Hsu T.-J., Köllner, T., Bai B., Meiburg E. (2020) An efficient cellular flow model for cohesive particle flocculation in turbulence, J. Fluid Mech., 889. 10.1017/jfm.2020.79.
3. Yue L., Cheng Z., Hsu T.-J., (2020) A turbulence-resolving numerical investigation of wave-supported gravity flows, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 125 (2). 10.1029/2019JC015220
4. Ye L., Manning A. J., Hsu, T.-J. (2020) Oil-Mineral Flocculation and Settling Velocity in Saline Water, Water Research, 173(15). 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115569
5.  Kim, Y., Mieras, R. S., Cheng, Z., Anderson, D., Hsu, T.-J., Puleo, J. A., Cox, D. (2019) A numerical study of sheet flow driven by velocity and acceleration skewed near-breaking waves on a sandbar using SedWaveFoam, Coastal Engineering, 152, 103526.
6. Mieras, R. S., J. A. Puleo, D. Anderson, Hsu, T.-J., D. T. Cox, J. Calantoni (2019), Relative contributions of bed load and suspended load to sediment transport under skewed‐asymmetric waves on a sandbar crest, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2018JC014564
7. Kim, Y., Cheng, Z., Hsu, T.-J., & Chauchat, J. (2018). A numerical study of sheet flow under monochromatic nonbreaking waves using a free surface resolving Eulerian two-phase flow model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123, 4693–4719.
8. Ye, L., Manning, A. J., Hsu, T.-J., Morey, S., Chassignet, E., P., Ippolito, T. A. (2018) Novel Application of Laboratory Instrumentation Characterizes Mass Settling Dynamics of Oil-Mineral Aggregates (OMAs) and Oil-Mineral-Microbial Interactions, Marine Tech. Soc. J., 56(6), 1-4.
9. Cheng, Z., Chauchat, J., Hsu, T.-J., Calantoni, J. (2018) Eddy interaction model for turbulent suspension in Reynolds-averaged Euler–Lagrange simulations of steady sheet flow, Advances in Water Resources, 111, 435-451, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.11.019.
10. Cheng, Z., Hsu, T.-J., Chauchat, J. (2018) An Eulerian two-phase model for steady sheet flow using large-eddy simulation methodology, Advances in Water Resources, 111, 205-223, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.11.016.

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