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Joannes Westerink

Professor of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

Director of Notre Dame’s Computational Hydraulics Laboratory, Westerink is the co-developer of the Advanced Circulation Model (ADCIRC), which is the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments. Westerink’s research focuses on computational fluid mechanics, finite element methods, the modeling of circulation and transport in coastal seas and oceans, tidal hydrodynamics, and hurricane storm surge prediction. He serves on the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority — West Bank and was co-leader of the Corps’ IPET surge and waves team that evaluated the Hurricane Katrina failures and hurricane protection risk for the New Orleans area.

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