Dr. Mohamed Iskandarani
Assistant Research Professor,
mohamed@imcs.rutgers.edu
Ph.D. Cornell UniversityAreas of Expertise
Numerical modeling in fluids, Pollutant/sediment transport; Wave hydrodynamics.
Publications
Some of the articles are available in postscript format. Scientific Interest
My work is centered around the development of a three-dimensionalspectral element ocean model. A two-dimensional version that solves thedepth-integrated form of the three-dimensional equations, the so-calledshallow water equations, has been produced and thoroughly tested. Thisdepth-integrated form of the three-dimensional equations, the so-calledshallow water equations, has been produced and thoroughly tested. Thisearly effort resulted in an useful model which is currently the basisof several geophysical simulations.The 2-D simulations range from process oriented studies to global oceansimulations. Comparisons of model results with measurements has showngood agreement. One of our graduate students ported the code toparallel computer platforms and showed its excellent scalabilitycharacteristics. Finally, an atmospheric version of the model has beenproduced and shown to be extremely promising in the context ofatmospheric flows; see MarkTaylor's web page for more information.The development of the three-dimensional version of the model iscurrently underway. A prototype of the model has been produced and hasbeen subjected to a few idealized problems. Spectral Element Ocean Model
The Spectral Element Ocean Model 2D (SEOM-2D) is an oceanic circulation modelthat solves the shallow water equations using the spectral elementmethod. See the list of publications for articles describing themodel and some of its applications.SEOM2D is available for anonymous ftp from pub/mohamed on ahab.rutgers.edu; check the Readme file. SEOM-2D documentation is also available.