Research

Nonlinear water waves

To develop theoretical models for the evolution of nonlinear, broadband, multi-directional surface waves.

Strongly nonlinear internal solitary waves

To study the evolution of strongly nonlinear internal solitary waves in density-stratified flows.

Hydrodynamic stability

To investigate stability of nonlinear waves and stratified flows.

Resoanant wave interactions

To study two-dimensional resonant and near-resonant wave interactions for surface and internal waves.

Surface signatures of IWs

To model the surface signatures of large amplitude long internal waves (IWs) using nonlinear modulation theories.

Breaking waves

To better undestand wave breaking process and develop a mathematical model for energy dissipation.

Wave-body interactions

To develop an efficient numerical method to study nonlinear waves interacting with bodies and disturbances.

Laboratory experiments

To perform small-scale wave tank experiments to study nonlinear progressive and standing waves.

PhD students

To work on research projects on nonlinear waves in fluids, free surface flows, and geophysical fluid dynamics.

Undergraduate Students

Experimental and numeical research internships are available to work in the Mathematical Water Wave (MW^2) Lab.

Postdocs

To apply, send a CV to wychoi@njit.edu.

Funded research projects

PI, National Science Foundation, $360K, 21-25

Co-PI, National Research Foundation of Korea, $125K, 21-22

Co-PI, Petroleum Research Grant, $110K, 19 - 20

PI, Faculty Seed Grant, NJIT, $7.5K, 18 - 19.

PI, National Science Foundation, $324K, 16 - 19

PI, National Science Foundation, $234K, 15 - 18

Co-PI, Korean Federation of Sci. and Tech. Soc., Brain Pool Program, $50K, 14 - 15

Co-PI, National Research Foundation of Korea, WCU Program, $15,000K, 09 – 13

PI, Office of Naval Research, $677K, 05 - 11

PI, Office of Naval Research, $147K, 08 -10

PI, National Science Foundation, $286K, 06 - 09

PI, Office of Naval Research, $110K, 05 - 08

PI, Summer Research Grants, University of Michigan, $4K, 03

PI, Rackham Faculty Grants and Fellowships for Research, $15K, 02 - 03