Mohamed Iskandarani

Research Associate Professor in the Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
Biography

Dr. Iskandarani holds an M.S. (1987) and a Ph.D. (1991) in Civil Engineering from Cornell University, and an undergraduate degree from the American University of Beirut (1984). He spent the years 1991-2000 at Rutgers University working on the development of a spectral element ocean model. He joined the faculty of the University of Miami in September 2000.
Research Interests

My main interest is in the development, application, and adaption of numerical methods for the simulation of oceanic flows. Particular areas include: the application of spectral element methods, advection schemes in structured and unstructured grids, coupling of offshore and basin-scale models, and parallel computing.
Recent Publications

M. Iskandarani, D. B. Haidvogel, and J. Levin, ``A Three-Dimensional Spectral Element Model for the Solution of the Hydrostatic Primitive Equations''. submitted for publication in Journal of Computational Physics

E. N. Curchitser, D. B. Haidvogel, and M. Iskandarani, ``On the transient adjustment of a mid-latitude abyssal ocean basin with realistic geometry and bathymetry'', to appear in Journal of Physical Oceanography, (2001).

O. Le Maitre, J. Levin, M. Iskandarani, and O. M. Knio, ``Multiple scales enhancement of a spectral element ocean model. I. Formulation and 1D tests'', Journal of Computational Physics , in press, (2001).

J. G. Levin, M. Iskandarani, and D. B. Haidvogel, ``A nonconforming spectral element ocean model'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 34, No 6, 495-525, (2000).

E. N. Curchitser, D. B. Haidvogel, and M. Iskandarani, ``On the transient adjustment of a mid-latitude abyssal ocean basin with realistic geometry: the constant depth limit'', Dynamics of Atmosphere and Oceans , 29, No 2-4, 147, (1999).

E. N. Curchitser, M. Iskandarani, and D. B. Haidvogel, ``A spectral element solution of the shallow water equations on multiprocessor computers'', Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Technology, 15, No 2, 510--521, (1998).

J. Levin, M. Iskandarani, and D. B. Haidvogel, ``A spectral filtering procedure for eddy resolving simulations with a spectral element ocean model'', Journal of Computational Physics , 137, No 1, 130 (1997).

M. Taylor, J. Tribbia, and M. Iskandarani, ``The spectral element method for the shallow water equations on the sphere'', Journal of Computational Physics , 130, No. 1, 92 (1997).

D.B. Haidvogel, E.N. Curchitser, M. Iskandarani, R. Hughes, and M. Taylor, ``Global modeling of the ocean and atmosphere using the spectral element method'', Atmosphere-Ocean, 35, No 1, 505--531, (1997)

M. Iskandarani, D.B. Haidvogel and J.P. Boyd, ``A staggered spectral element model for the shallow water equations'', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 20, No. 5, 393--414, (1995).

Contact Dr. Mohamed Iskandarani
RSMAS/MPO
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149 USA

Telephone: (305)361-4045
FAX: (305)361-4696
miskandarani@rsmas.miami.edu
Last revised: 4 January 2001