Abstract: Understanding the physical processes modulating the transport of scalars, such as heat, over very rough surfaces is essential for understanding the thermal environment of cities, how wind and solar farms modify heat and water exchanges between the atmosphere and Earth surface, and parameterizing surface physics in coarser Earth systems models. This talk examines this […]

Abstract: Polymers are essential to a wide range of technologies, yet designing them with targeted structural and functional properties remains a grand challenge. A major opportunity lies in applying machine learning to help navigate the vast combinatorial design space—spanning sequence, composition, architecture, morphology, processing, and more—to discover new formulations or replace existing ones with more […]

Abstract: Flow predictions in the stratified atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) are critical to a range of applications including energy meteorology, sustainability and resilience of the built environment, and wildfire management. Physical ABL processes such as boundary layer turbulence and surface-atmosphere interactions are parameterized in the weather and climate models that drive predictions used for decision-making […]