LAB Announcements

  • Scott Speckart successfully defended his PhD on Monday April 29, 2013.
  • Bhagirath Addepalli successfully defended his PhD on Friday December 21, 2012.
  • BLLASt field experiment video is now available here.
  • Fall MATERHORN-X Field campaign is a success!
  • Chad Neilson MS successfully defended his thesis.
  • Sustainability growing at the U with the GCSC

Spotlight

Sean Moran

Sean Moran

Hometown: Cheyenne, Wy

Undergraduate: Gonzaga University

Program: MS

Research Interests: Environmental Fluid Dynamics (experimental and computational) with a focus on momentum transport, particle (PM10 and PM2.5) transport and deposition, atmospheric turbulence, turbulent mixing and deposition of scalars with variable atmospheric stability, wind tunnel and field testing of turbulence within vegetative canopies (porous medium), grid-generated isotropic turbulence, sonic anemometry, and hot-wire anemometry. Additional research interests include Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES).

Publications:
S.M. Moran, E.R. Pardyjak, J.M. Veranth, "The Role of Turbulence in Enhancing Deposition", (2012) Phys. Fluids, (publication under review)
S.M. Moran, E.R. Pardyjak, J.M. Veranth "Developing strategies for fugitive dust mitigation and transport flux using native vegetative windbreaks for dust control,” Paper #16, Air and Waste Management 104th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, FL, June 21, 2011.

Contact: sean.moran@utah.edu

Past Research Projects

Atmspheric Field Measurement Projects

 An insturmented street canyon at during MUST

Urban Field Campaigns

SCERP (Southwestern Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy) reduction of road dust through the use of windbreaks.

  • Las Cruces, NM field experiment
  • Windbreak modeling and measurements in Nogales, MX.
  • Spatial variability of pollutants in Yuma, AZ.
  • Indoor and Outdoor Pollution measurements in Nogales, Mx.

Joint Urban 2003: The largest Full Scale Urban field experiment ever; conducted in Oklahoma City During the Summer of 2003.

Urban Trace-gas Emissions Study (UTES) is a multidiscplinary biodiversity project funded by the National Science Foundation to investigate urban emissions of carbon dioxide and water vapor.

MUST (Mock Urban Setting Test): Large scale field experiment sponsored by the DOD and DOE. This field campagaign was run in September 2001 at the Dugway Proving grounds in western Utah. The focus of this experiments was to better characterize tranport and dispersion of plumes around buildings at very large Reynolds numbers. The experiments have provided new data sets for modelers as well as insight to the physical trasport mechanisms at work within and around the Urban Canopy.

VTMX (Vertical Transport and Mixing Experiment) October 2000 in Salt Lake City, UT. DOE sponsored project investigating vertical tranport and mixing throughout the Salt Lake Valley.

URBAN 2000 - DOE sponsored Urban field campaign (October 2000) located in Salt Lake City, UT. The experiment coincided with the VTMX experiment.

PAFEX PAFEX (Phoenix Air Flow Experiments): Two part field campaign that took place in Phoenix, Arizona. PAFEX-I (January 14-February 1, 1998). PAFEX-II (July 1-Aug 15, 1998).