Dr. Pengfei Xue
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dr. Xue’s
research group focuses on the development of hydrodynamic
model and its application to advancing our understanding of
multi-scaled hydrodynamic processes of the Great Lakes and
coastal oceans, and their impacts on coastal communities.
Recently, advanced next-generation, Great Lakes numerical,
hydrodynamic model has been developed at the Great Lakes
Research Center (GLRC) at Michigan Tech, utilizing the
supercomputer Superior, including a coupled (at the
Straits of Mackinac) Lakes Michigan-Huron model as well as
three models for Lake Superior, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
The unstructured-grid Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model
(FVCOM) model has the capability to resolve the nearshore
regions of the Great Lakes in sufficient detail to determine
the general flow conditions at previously unprecedented
resolution in both the horizontal and vertical. This level of
hydrodynamic predictive capacity is critical for our
understanding of hydrodynamics and its impact on our
ecosystem.
Dr. Xue's ongoing research includes using these high-resolution
Great Lake models to investigate the impact of mesoscale
meteorological forcing on the thermal structure and
circulations in the Great Lakes; to predict dispersal paths of
contaminants, nutrients into the lakes; to simulate the water
conditions that influence the proliferation of invasive
species. His previous research efforts on coastal oceans
include estuarine and coastal ocean circulation, dynamics of
coupled ocean-atmosphere model.
For more information, please visit Dr. Xue's
Numerical Modeling Lab.
Recent publications
| 01 |
Local Feedback Mechanisms of the Shallow Water Region Around the Maritime Continent P. Xue, E. A. B. Eltahir, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, J. Wei Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (2014) |
| 02 |
Mechanism Studies of Seasonal Variability of Dissolved Oxygen in Mass Bay: A Multi-scale FVCOM/UG-RCA Application P. Xue, C. Chen, J. Qi, R. C. Beardsley, R. Tian, L. Zhao, H. Lin Journal of Marine Systems, vol. 131, p. 102 (2014) |
| 03 |
Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) of Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring in Massachusetts Bay P. Xue, C. Chen, R. C. Beardsley Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, vol. 117, p. C05014 (2012) |
