YULIYA KANARSKA

 

 

 

 

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

University of California at Los Angeles

405 Hilgard ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

 

Phone: (310)-825-5402

Fax:      (310)-206-5219

e-mail: kanarska@atmos.ucla.edu

http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~kanarska

 

 

 

Research interest

 

Numerical algorithm developments (ocean modeling, mostly non-hydrostatic algorithms and I am interested in others as well);

Small scale nonlinear processes and associated mixing;

Nonlinear internal waves generation, transformation and their interaction with currents;

Exchange gravity flows in straits, rivers, estuaries

 

Education

 

Ph. D. 2004

Institute of Mathematical Machines and System Problems, Department of Marine and River System Modeling

Kiev, Ukraine

 

Mechanics of Fluid, Gas and Plasma

M.Sc. 2001

Kiev National University, Ukraine

Mechanics of Fluid and Gas

 

Research experience

 

03/2005-present

Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics University of   California at Los Angeles, UCLA

CESR Lab of Prof. James McWilliams

I am working on non-hydrostatic algorithm in ROMS (http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/cesr/ROMS_page.html)

with Dr. A. Shchepetkin who is a kernel developer of ROMS;

We have ONR project on coupling hydrostatic ROMS and non-hydrostatic SUNTANS models;

I am working on the simulation of tidally generated non-linear waves and their interaction with currents (idealized and the South China Sea configurations).

 

2001-2004

Ph.D. student, supervised by Dr. Vladimir Maderich

Institute of Mathematical Machines and System Problems

Department of Marine and River System Modeling

NAS of Ukraine, Kiev

 

Development of numerical model for solving Navier-Stokes equations for unsteady stratified flows with free surface;

Study of the water exchange and mixing in the long sea straits and the Dardanelles strait (INTAS project, Kanarska et al. 2003, 2004, 2006);

Study of the generation and transformation of internal waves and gravitational currents in lakes (INTAS project, Kanarska 2004);

Modeling of jet flows from vessels (CRDF project, Maderich et al. 2006).

 

09/2003 – 11/2003

03/2004 – 05/2004

 

INTAS Fellowship,  supervised by Dr. Vassilis Zervakis

Hellenic Center of Marine Research (HCMR), Greece

 

Study of the impact of the Dardanelles strait on the Aegean sea circulation. We developed 3D model of the Dardanelles strait (Kanarska et al. 2006) and then studied the impact of the Dardanelles outflow on the Aegean circulation in the frame of hydraulic and 3D model.

 

November, 2004

I spent few weeks in Darmstadt University, Germany and worked with Prof. Kolumban Hutter on internal waves generation and transformation in lakes.

 

09/1996-08/2001

Student

National University of Ukraine, Kiev

Focus on mathematical modeling and theoretical work in acoustics and optics with Prof. A. F.Ulitko.

 

 

 

Awards

 

2001  M. Sc. Honours Diploma, Kiev, Ukraine

2003  M.I.T. Fellowship “Young Researcher Fellowship Award for exemplary research in computational mechanics”, Cambridge, USA.

 

Research projects (participation)

 

(2005-present) ONR project between UCLA and Stanford (Dr. Oliver Fringer, Prof. Rober Street)

(2002-2004) INTAS Fellowship for Young Scientists YSF 2002-127

(2002-2004) US Civil Research and Development Foundation project “Improved Methodology for Assessing the Imacts of the Aegean-Black Sea Exchange”

(2003-2004) US Civil Research and Development Foundation project “Development Software System to simulate Coastal Erosion and Sediment Transport under Joint Effects of Waves and Currents”

(2003-2004) INTAS project “Strongly nonlinear internal waves in lakes: generation, transformation and meromixis”

 

Publications

 

International journals

 

Kanarska Y., Maderich V., Zervakis V. 2006: Modeling of seasonal exchange flows through the Dardanelles strait. Coastal Shelf Research, submitted.

Kanarska Y., Maderich V, 2003: A non-hydrostatic numerical model for calculating free- surface stratified flows. Ocean Dynamics 53 (3), pp. 176-185.

 

 

National journals

 

Kanarska Y. 2004: Evolution of strongly nonlinear waves and gravitational currents in rectangular basin. Applied Hydromechanics 3 (78) No3: 31-34 (in russian)

Kanarska Y. 2003: A numerical algorithm of modeling non-hydrostatic flows in generalized curvilinear coordinates. Applied Hydromechanics 5 (77) No1: 17-27 (in russian)

 

Papers in conference proceedings

 

Maderich V., Kanarska Y., Fenical S., Terletska K., Brovchenko I. 2006: 3D non-hydrostatic Modeling of Bottom and Bank Stability Subjected by Ship Propeller Jets. Proc. of  ICCE, San Diego, USA, Sept. 2006.

Kanarska Y., Maderich V. 2004: Laboratory and numerical modeling of exchange flows. Proc. of XXI ICTAM congress, Warsaw, Poland, August 2004.

Kanarska Y. 2003: A three-dimensional non-hydrostatic numerical model of free-surface stratified flows. Proc. Second MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. Cambridge, USA, June 2003, published as: Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, K.J. Bathe (Ed.), Elsevier Science Ltd., pp. 147-150.

Kanarska Y., Maderich V. 2003: A non-hydrostatic numerical modeling exchange flows. Proc. of XXX IAHR congress. Thessaloniki, Greece, August 2003. Theme A, pp. 203-210.

 

 

Other/Presentations/Meetings

Kanarska Y., McWilliams J., Shchepetkin A. 2006: Nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea. NLIWI meeting, Washington DC, Oct. 2006.

http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~kanarska/public_html/Data/nliwiSCS.ppt

Kanarska Y., McWilliams J., Shchepetkin A. 2006: Non-hydrostatic simulations of generation of strongly nonlinear internal waves and their interaction with currents. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 2006.

Kanarska Y., McWilliams J., Shchepetkin A. 2005: Non-hydrostatic algorithm and dynamics in ROMS. ROMS/TOMS Workshop: Adjoint Modeling and Applications, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, October 24-26, 2005.

Kanarska Y. Maderich V. 2004: Three-dimensional simulations on the seasonal and short-period variability of circulation in the Dardanelles. 1st General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2004.

Kanarska Y. Maderich V. Zervakis V., 2003: Hydrodynamics and hydraulics of exchange flows in the long Sea Straits: Turkish Straits case study. EGU-AGU Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 2003.

 

 

Computer skills

Programming languages: Fortran 77, Fortran 90, C++ (in progress)

Systems: Linux, Unix, Windows

 

Hobby

Hiking (I enjoy California mountains, climate and nature);

Water tourism (e.g. “baydarka”, catamaran) – I used to swim in beautiful lakes and mountain rivers (e.g. in Karelia, Russia) with my friends;

I like pets, especially dogs, but I leave them (two cats and two dogs) in Kiev and still hope to have at least one here;

Tennis (my best friend is a tennis fan so I am becoming tennis fan too)