Cigdem Akan
Ph.D. Candidate


University of South Florida
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620-5350
Phone: (813) 974-3972
E-mail: cakan@mail.usf.edu

Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/cigdemakan/


Academic Experience

Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL. 2007 - Present

Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Ocean Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY. 2005 - 2007.


Education

Ph.D. Civil Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL. 2007 - Present

M.Sc. Ocean Engineering
Department of Ocean Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY. 2005 - 2007.

B.Sc. Ocean Engineering
Department of Ocean Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY. 2000 - 2005.


Research

Mass transfer through the air-water interface in large-eddy simulation (LES) of Langmuir circulation (LC) in shallow water.


Publications
  1. A.E. Tejada-Martinez, C.E. Grosch, N. Sinha, C. Akan and G. Martinat, "Disruption of bottom log-layer in LES of full-depth Langmuir circulation", submitted, 2011.

  2. A.E. Tejada-Martinez, C. Akan and C.E. Grosch, “Mass transfer at the surface in LES of wind-driven shallow water flow with Langmuir circulation”, Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, edited by S. Komori, W. McGillis and R. Kurose, Kyoto University Press, 177-192, 2011.

  3. S.D. Yakan, C. Akan, and Beji, S., "A 2-D numerical model for linear wave propagation in boundary-fitted curvilinear grids", 2nd International Conference on Marine Research and Transportation, 2007.