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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. Environ Fluid Mech, 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. J. Fluid Mech., 874, 102–130.

2018

Wang, B., Socolofsky, S. A., Lai, C. C. K., 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. K., & 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., & Socolofsky, 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. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.
Lai, C. C., & Socolofsky, 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. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.