Computing Algal Bloom
Algal bloom refers to sudden growth of toxic algae in water systems. Due to climate change, algal bloom became one of the biggest threats to our inland water systems in the past few years. A major problem on our way to combat algal bloom is to predict when it happens. Here we aim to make a computational tool to study bloom of algae in chaotic flows.
Algal bloom in the Baltic sea (esa satellite image). Inset: An example of our computational work on growth of algae inside a small computational domain.
Your Research
You will work in a team to develop computational tools to study the growth of algae inside a chaotic flow. To this end, you will use an open-source code to solve the governing equations of the fluid flows (Navier Stokes) in addition to more coupled differential equations. No previous knowledge of hydrodynamics or differential equation is required. Programming languages are C++ and Python.
Methods involved
Theory: computational hydrodynamics
Supervisors: Mazi Jalaal (m.jalaal@uva.nl), Yuri Sinzato (y.z.sinzato@uva.nl)