Akshay L. Patil

I studied Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Pune in India to obtain my Bachelors of Engineering [B.E.]. I then moved to the Delft University of Technology [TUD] at the CiTG faculty to study Environmental Fluid Mechanics, where I worked mainly on developing and applying Computational Fluid Dynamics [CFD] for tsunami interactions with sea walls and wave overtopping predictions in shallow coastal environments. While at TUD, I briefly visited the University of Western Australia [UWA] as part of my MSc. thesis research.

Inspired by the viability of CFD in environmental flows, I then moved to Stanford University in the United States to study the interaction of surface gravity waves, turbulence, and tidal currents over naturally rough walls. Here I developed a highly efficient parallel code to enable direct simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations for such complex flow environments to better understand the turbulence physics.

I am passionate about environmental flows, turbulence physics, and CFD. Outside my scientific interests, I enjoy music and travelling. Within the 3D Geoinformation research group, I will focus on applying CFD techniques to study flows within urban environments and quantify the uncertainties in these predictions.