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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Chris Lai

Texas A&M University

Zachry Department of Civil Engineering

College of Engineering
3136 TAMU
College Station , TX  77843  

chrislck@neo.tamu.edu

Project List:

Gulf of Mexico Integrated Spill Response Consortium (GISR)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level, GoMRI Scholar

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 4

2019

Lai, C. C. K., & Socolofsky, S. A. (2019). Budgets of turbulent kinetic energy, Reynolds stresses, and dissipation in a turbulent round jet discharged into a stagnant ambient. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 19(2), 349-377.
Wang, B., Lai, C. C. K., & Socolofsky, S. A. (2019). Mean velocity, spreading and entrainment characteristics of weak bubble plumes in unstratified and stationary water. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 874, 102-130.

2018

Wang, B., Socolofsky, S. A., Lai, C. C., Adams, E. E., & Boufadel, M. C. (2018). Behavior and dynamics of bubble breakup in gas pipeline leaks and accidental subsea oil well blowouts. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 131, 72-86.

2016

Fraga, B., Stoesser, T., Lai, C. C., & Socolofsky, S. A. (2016). A LES-based Eulerian–Lagrangian approach to predict the dynamics of bubble plumes. Ocean Modelling, 97, 27-36.

Conference Presentations - 2

2015

Lai, C. S., & S (2015). Volume flux measurements in the zone of flow establishment of an aerated plume. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015
Lai, C. S., & S.A (2015). PIV Measurement of the Residual Flow Following Abrupt Shut-off of a Bubble Plume. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015