Wenrui HuangPh.D.,P.E=
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Professor=
Civ=
il
and Environmental Engineering Dept., FAMU-FSU
College of Engineering, Tallahassee, FL,
32310, USA.
P=
hone:
850-410-6199; E-mail: whuang@eng.famu.fsu.edu<=
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Res=
earch
Interests:
- Natural hazard modeling (coastal storm surge and
waves, watershed runoff, floods, etc…=
; )
- Integrated hydrodynamic and ecological modeling =
for
estuarine ecosystem studies
- Hydrological analysis of extreme water levels and
flows for flood frequency
- Impacts of human activities and climate changes =
on
water resources and ecosystems.
Summary of Research, Services, and
Publications
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Research and training opportunity for FAMU
undergraduate students in coastal hazard area. Email to Dr. Huang: <=
/span>whuang@=
eng.famu.fsu.edu for information.
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Link to exampl=
es
of research projects

Example 1: Wind and storm surge during Hurricane=
Irma
in 2017
Selected publicat=
ions:
Linoj
Vijayan, Wenrui Huang, Kai Yin, Eren
Ozguven, Simone Burns, Mah=
yar
Ghorbanzadeh, 2021. Evaluation of Parametric Wi=
nd
Models for More Accurate Modeling of Storm Surge: A Case Study of Hurricane
Michael, Accepted for publication by the journal of Natural Hazards. DOI 10=
.1007/s11069-021-04525-y
Kai
Yin, Sudong Xu, Quan Zhao, Wenrui
Huang, Ke Yang, Meiting
Guo, 2020. Effects of land cover change on atmospheric and storm surge mode=
ling
during typhoon event, Ocean Engineering, Volume 199, 2020, 106971, ISSN 0029-8018,
Xiao
H., and Wenrui Huang, 2015. Three-dimensional
numerical modeling of solitary wave breaking and force on a cylinder pile in
the coastal surf zone. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Volume 141, Issue =
8,
Article number A4014001, Published AGU.&nb=
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doi:&nb=
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000834.
Xiao,
Hong , and Wenrui Huang, 2008. Numerical Modeli=
ng of
Wave Runup and Forces Acting on Beachfront House. Journal of Ocean Engineer=
ing.
Ocean Engineering, 35 (1), pg 106–116
Wenrui Huang, Scott Hagen, Peter Bacopoulos,
Dingbao Wang, 2015. Hydrodynamic modeling and
analysis of sea-level rise impacts on salinity for oyster growth in
Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 156=
, 5
April 2015, Pages 7–18.
Huang,
W.; Hagen, S.C.; Bacopoulos, P., and Teng, F., =
2014.
Sea-level rise effects on hurricane-induced salinity transport in Apalachic=
ola
Bay. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, No. 68, pp. 49-56.
Huang, W., Scott
Hagen, Peter Bacopoulos, 2014. Hydrodynamic mod=
eling
of Hurricane Dennis Impact on Estuarine Salinity Variation in Apalachicola =
Bay.
Journal of Coastal Research: Volume 30, Issue 2: pp. 389 – 398
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