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WINTERS, KRAIG

Principal Investigator, Senior Lecturer

Adjunct Professor

Degrees:

  • B.S., Humboldt State University
  • Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Interests:

  • Computational fluid dynamics, high-order methods
  • Internal waves & mixing, stability, transition to turbulence
  • Coastal ocean processes, dispersion
  • Parallel algorithms, large-scale scientific computation

Courses Recently Taught:

  • MAE210C: Fluid Mechanics III
  • MAE224: Environmental Fluid Dynamics
  • SIO214B: Environmental Fluid Dynamics

Honors and Awards:

  • Visiting Professor, University of Paris VI, January, 2008
  • Visiting Professor, University of Paris VI, Summer, 2004
  • CNRS Researcher, Ecole Normal Supérieure, Lyon, 1996

Mentoring:

  • Hazewinkel, Jeroen (Post Doc; 2010-)
  • Luciani, Julien (Other; 2009-)
  • Tsang, Yue-Kin (Post Doc; 2009-)
  • Ashton, Harrison (Undergrad; 2008-)
  • Crossley, James (Other; 2008-)
  • Grisourd, Nicolas (Other; 2006-)
  • Satoshi, Mitarai (Post Doc; 2005-2008)
  • Jennifer, MacKinnon (Post Doc; 2002-2004)
  • Sharmon, Mike (Undergrad; 2000-)
  • Barry, Michael (Graduate; 1997-2000)
  • Finnigan, Timothy (Graduate; 1997-2000)
  • Hogg, Andrew (Graduate; 1997-2000)
  • Ray, Finch (Masters; 1992-1994)


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Home Department:
IOD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0209

Email: kbwinters@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/kbwinters

Lab Website: http://cfd.ucsd.edu
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Publications:

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Winters, K. B. and H. E. Seim, 2000: The role of dissipation and mixing in exchange flow through a contracting channel, J. Fluid Mech., 407, 265-290.

Winters, K.B., H.E. Seim and T.D. Finnigan, 2000: Simulation of non-hydrostatic, density-stratified flow in irregular domains, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 32, 263-284.

Ivey, G. N., Winters, K. B. and I.P.D. De Silva 2000: Turbulent mixing in a sloping benthic boundary layer energised by internal waves. J. Fluid Mech., 418, 59-76.

Bouruet-Aubertot, P., C. Koudella, C. Staquet, and K. B. Winters 2001, Particle dispersion and mixing induced by breaking internal gravity waves, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 33 (2), 95-134.

Hodges, B. R., Imberger, J., Saggio, A. and K. B. Winters 2000: Modeling basin-scale internal waves in a stratified lake, Limnology and Oceanography, 45, 1603-1620.

Hogg, A. M., Ivey, G. N. and K. B. Winters, 2001: Hydraulics and mixing in controlled exchange flows, J. Geophys. Res, 106 , C1, 959-972.

Finnigan, T. D., Winters, K. B. and G. N. Ivey, 2001: Response characteristics of a buoyancy-driven sea, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 2721-2736.

Barry, M. E., Ivey, G. N., K. B. Winters and J. Imberger, 2001: Measurements of diapycnal diffusivities in stratified fluids, J. Fluid Mech., 442, 267-291.

Hogg, A.M., K.B. Winters and G. N. Ivey. 2001. Linear internal waves and the control of stratified exchange flows. J. Fluid Mech., 447, 357-375.

D’Asaro, E. A., K.B. Winters, R-C Lien. 2002. Lagrangian analysis of a convective mixed layer. J. Geophys. Res, 107, C5, 10.1029/2000JC000247 (22 pp)

Smyth, W. D. and K. B. Winters, 2002 Turbulence and mixing in Holmboe waves, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 33 (4), 694-711

Winters, K. B., MacKinnon, J. A. and B. Mills, 2003, A spectral model for process studies of rotating, density-stratified flows, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21, 69-94.

D'Asaro, E. A., Winters K. B. and R-C Lien, 2004, Lagrangian estimates of diapycnal mixing in simulated KH instability, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol 21, 799-809.

Barr, B., Slinn, D. Pierro, T. and K. B. Winters, 2004, Numerical Simulation of turbulent, oscillatory flow over sand ripples, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 109, C09009, doi:10.1029/2002JC001709

MacKinnon, J.A. and K.B. Winters, 2006: Subtropical catastrophe: Significant loss of low-mode tidal energy at 28.9°, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(15), 10.1029/2005GL023376

S. Mitarai, D. A. Siegel, and K. B. Winters, 2007:. A numerical study of stochastic larval settlement in nearshore environments. Journal of Marine Systems, 69, 295

Winters, K. B. (2008), Growth of Inertia-Gravity Waves in Sheared Inertial Currents, J. Fluid Mech. 601 , 85 - 100

Ivey, G.N., K. B. Winters and J.R. Koseff (2008), Density Stratification, Turbulence, but How Much Mixing? Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 40: 169-184

Siegel, D.A., Mitarai, S., Costello, C.J., Gaines, S.D., Kendall, B.E., Warner, R.R., and Winters, K.B., 2008: Connectivity among nearshore marine ecosystems: the stochastic nature of larval transport, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 8974-8979

M. van Aartrijk, H. J. H. Clercx and K. B. Winters (2008), Single-particle, particle-pair and multiparticle dispersion of fluid particles in forced stably stratified turbulence, Physics of Fluids Vol. 20: 025104

Winters, K. B. and W. R. Young, 2008: Available potential energy and buoyancy variance in horizontal convection, J. Fluid Mech., 629, 221-230


Last Modified: Jan 29, 2010