Ken Melville

Scripps Institute of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

Ken Melville received his undergraduate degrees in applied mathematics and aeronautical engineering at Sydney University, and his PhD in aeronautics and astronautics at the University of Southampton, England. Following a post-doctoral appointment at the University of New South Wales, and a research position at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCSD, in 1981 he moved to a faculty position in Civil & Environmental Engineering at MIT, spending the summers as a visiting investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He returned to Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1992.

His research interests include: fluid mechanics and its application in oceanography and air-sea interaction: nonlinear surface and internal waves, especially wave breaking; the stability of wind-driven water surfaces; air-sea fluxes of gas, heat, momentum and energy; nonlinear waves in rotating fluids; acoustical oceanography; surface processes underlying microwave remote sensing of the ocean surface.

GALCIT Home Page

2002-2003 Fluids Seminar Page