Clarkson University
Civil and Environmental Engineering
About
Poojitha D. Yapa, a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA has B.Sc (Honors) in Civil Engineering and M.Sc in Hydraulic engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University in 1983. His research has focused on “environmental hydraulics problems”. For over 25 years his research has been focused on oil spill modeling. This includes not only trajectory modeling, but modeling physico-chemical processes oil undergo when spilled in the ocean or rivers. In the last 15 years his modeling has been on deepwater oil, gas, and hydrates, studying the complex processes they undergo during the travel from deepwater to the surface. Prof. Yapa and his students developed computer models such as CDOG, MEGADEEP, and ADMS for modeling the behavior of oil and gas when released in deepwater. The work has been published in leading journals.
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