About

Dr. Chris Lai received his BEng and MPhil degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and was awarded his PhD degree from Texas A&M University in 2015. Before joining CEE at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Extreme Fluids Team (P-23, Physics Division) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Lai's research focuses on understanding the role of fluid turbulence in environmental processes and applications. He has previously worked on (1) marine outfall designs for treated domestic wastewater and brine discharges from desalination plants, (2) accidental oil spills modeling for disaster management, and (3) the role of large fluid density gradients in shaping turbulent flows as seen in inertial confinement fusion. Dr. Lai's work combines experiments, theories, and mathematical modeling to develop simplified, yet physics-based, engineering predictive models to aid in management-level decisions.

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Universities and Academia

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Dr. Lai's research focuses on understanding the role of fluid turbulence in environmental processes and applications.

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