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Andrew Bragg

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2459 CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment.  

Research Interests


Physics and modeling of turbulence and turbulent transport; theoretical and computational fluid dynamics; applied mathematics.

Selected Grants


CAREER: Sheared stratified turbulence: novel mechanisms and models of complex wave-vortex interactions that impact our environment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025

Development and application of a wall model for the dust-laden atmospheric boundary layer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Notre Dame · 2022 - 2025

Implications of heterogeneity-aware land-atmosphere coupling in the predictability of precipitation extremes

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2022 - 2024

Two-way momentum coupling between hydrometeors and small-scale air motions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Oklahoma · 2023 - 2024

CAREER: Sheared stratified turbulence: novel mechanisms and models of complex wave-vortex interactions that impact our environment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025

Development and application of a wall model for the dust-laden atmospheric boundary layer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Notre Dame · 2022 - 2025

Implications of heterogeneity-aware land-atmosphere coupling in the predictability of precipitation extremes

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2022 - 2024

Two-way momentum coupling between hydrometeors and small-scale air motions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Oklahoma · 2023 - 2024

Collisional growth of aggregates in the turbulent protoplanetary nebula

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Bay Area Environmental Research Institute · 2018 - 2022