Fernando Porté-Agel

McKnight Land-Grant Professor

Research Interests:

My research interests are in land-atmosphere exchange processes, turbulence and computational fluid dynamics. The main goal is to better understand the physics underlying transport of momentum, heat, water vapor and pollutants at different scales in the atmospheric boundary layer. Improved descriptions of those transport processes are developed and used in engineering and environmental applications (e.g., hydrologic, climate and pollution models). Most research projects involve a combination of experimental work (field measurements and wind tunnel experiments), modeling (large-eddy simulations) and theoretical development. Other areas of interest include hydrology and water resources engineering.