Oliver Fringer

About

Oliver Fringer is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Oceans at Stanford University. His research focuses on the development and application of numerical models and high-performance computational techniques to study fundamental processes that influence the dynamics of the coastal ocean, rivers, lakes, and estuaries. He holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, obtained in 2003, a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, earned in 1996, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, completed in 1995.

Research topics

• Physics
• Computer Science
• Oceanography
• Geology
• Thermodynamics
• Astrobiology
• Materials science
• Engineering
• Geodesy
• Environmental science

Selected publications

• Long‐Term Earth‐Moon Evolution With High‐Level Orbit and Ocean Tide Models

  Journal of Geophysical Research Planets · 2021 · 58 citations

  , evolution of inclination and eccentricity is dominated by tidal and core-mantle boundary dissipation within the Moon, which yield high lunar orbit inclinations in the early Earth-Moon system. A drawback for our results is that the semi-major axis does not collapse to near-zero values at 4.5 Ga, as indicated by most lunar formation models. Additional processes, missing from our current efforts, are discussed as topics for future investigation.

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• The effects of particle clustering on hindered settling in high-concentration particle suspensions

  Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 2021 · 29 citations

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• On the Variability of Floc Characteristics in a Shallow Estuary

  Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans · 2022-05-26 · 16 citations

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  Abstract We conducted field work in South San Francisco Bay to examine cohesive sediment flocculation dynamics in a shallow, wave‐ and current‐driven estuarine environment. Drawing on data collected using a suite of acoustic and optical instrumentation over three distinct seasons, we found that the factors driving floc size variability differed substantially when comparing locally sourced sediment (i.e., through wave‐driven resuspension) to suspended sediment advected from upstream. Statistical…

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• CFD-accelerated bioreactor optimization: reducing the hydrodynamic parameter space

  Environmental Science Water Research & Technology · 2022-01-01 · 9 citations

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  CFD modeling of fluidized bed bioreactors can identify desirable operational regimes and improve design.

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• Drag enhancement by the addition of weak waves to a wave-current boundary layer over bumpy walls

  Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 2022-08-15 · 7 citations

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  We present direct numerical simulation results of a wave-current boundary layer in a current-dominated flow regime (wave driven to steady current ratio of 0.34) over bumpy walls for hydraulically smooth flow conditions (wave orbital excursion to roughness ratio of 10). The turbulent, wave-current channel flow has a friction Reynolds number of $350$ and a wave Reynolds number of $351$ . At the lower boundary, a bumpy wall is introduced with a direct forcing immersed boundary method, while the top…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Improved observation and parameterization of bottom boundary layer turbulence and particle properties for sediment fate and transport modeling

  NSF · $1.4M · 2017–2022

Frequent coauthors

• Eiji Masunaga

  Ibaraki University

  59 shared

• Stephen G. Monismith

  Stanford University

  58 shared

• Hidekatsu Yamazaki

  Sun Yat-sen University

  55 shared

• Yujiro Kitade

  Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

  50 shared

• Scott M. Gallager

  49 shared

• Robert S. Arthur

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  32 shared

• Ruo‐Qian Wang

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  28 shared

• Adrian Wing‐Keung Law

  27 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering

  Stanford University

  2000

• M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering

  Stanford University

  1996

• B.S., Civil Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1994

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