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Prof. Ole S Madsen
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus
Primary DLC
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
MIT Room:
48-317
(617) 253-2721
osm@mit.edu
https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/ole-s-madsen/
Assistant
Vicki Murphy
(617) 253-5290
vmurphy@mit.edu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Coastal Engineering
Oceanographic Engineering
Turbulent Boundary Layer Flows
Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters
Environmental Fluid Transport Processes
Free Surface Flow
Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Environmental Systems
Engineering and Environmental Mechanics
Earth Systems Initiative
Fluid Mechanics
Research Summary
Professor Madsen's research interests focus on physical processes in the coastal environment, including, but not limited to, transformation of waves up to breaking and beyond with emphasis on the development of simple, yet realistic, models for the turbulent wave bottom boundary, the interaction of waves and current, e.g. wave-induced long-shore currents in the surf zone, the interaction of coastal combined wave-current flows with bottom sediments and the resulting bottom boundary layer processes influencing sediment transport mechanics in the coastal environment.
Recent Work
Projects
September 14, 2015
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Development of a Laser-Based Bottom Profiling system (LBP)
Principal Investigator
Ole Madsen
September 14, 2015
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bottom-Slope Induced Net Sheet-Flow Sediment Transport Rate Under Waves
Principal Investigator
Ole Madsen
January 31, 2008
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Coastal Environment and Sediment Transport (CEST)
Principal Investigator
Ole Madsen
Related Faculty
Prof. Chiang C Mei
Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Prof. Saurabh Amin
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anna Tarakanova
Research Affiliate