Robert (Bob) N. Meroney (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley)

Wind Engineering and Fluids Laboratory, Engineering Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, Tel: 970.491.6605, Fax: 970.491.7727, E-mail: meroney@engr.colostate.edu

Research interests: wind engineering and fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, atmospheric transport, toxic and flammable gas spills, fossil and nuclear power plant siting, wind power, urban air pollution environments, infiltration and heat transfer in buildings, snow drifting, and pedestrian comfort.

Teaching experience: engineering mechanics, fluid dynamics, wind engineering, transport phenomena, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, dispersion and diffusion, and stratified fluid mechanics.

Recent research activity: air pollution aerodynamics, experimental and numerical prediction of flow and dispersion about bluff bodies, bluff body generated vortices and associated surface pressures, vehicular pollution in urban street canyons, numerical prediction of tornado simulators, terrain aerodynamics, agricultural aerodynamics.

Research collaboration: faculty and students from Texas Tech University; faculty at U. of Portsmouth, UK; faculty and staff at U. of Hamburg, Germany; faculty and staff at Monash University, Australia; wind engineering researchers in Japan.