Overview
Dr. Kabala teaches currently the following courses: Fluid Mechanics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Groundwater Hydrology, and Computational Thinking and Programming with AI. He utilizes Mathematica (Wolfram Language), Python, and ChatGPT in his research and teaching. In addition, Dr. Kabala offers online courses for Institute for Statistical and Data Science, also known as InStats for short (https://instats.org/). He enjoys his interactions with students in and outside of class. He has served as a faculty in residence (FIR) in Southgate, Giles, and West House dormitories for a number of years. Dr. Kabala has also worked with Pioneer Academics to mentor high school students from around the world and recruit some of them to Duke. He is an avid member of Toastmasters International, where he hones his public speaking skills and helps students and postdocs do the same.
Dr. Kabala follows politics with great passion and occasionally writes about it. In his free time, he enjoys racquet and water sports, hiking, reading, and listening to jazz.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Gaia: Complex systems prediction for time to adapt to climate shocks
Journal Article Vadose Zone Journal · May 1, 2025 Earth's climate has undergone significant fluctuations in the geologic past, while the sun's radiation continues to increase, yet has always returned to conditions highly favorable to life. Thus, the biosphere overall appears able to cancel effects of exte ... Full text CiteHydrodynamic Porosity: A New Perspective on Flow through Porous Media, Part I
Journal Article Water Switzerland · August 1, 2024 Pore-scale flow velocity is an essential parameter in determining transport through porous media, but it is often miscalculated. Researchers use a static porosity value to relate volumetric or superficial velocities to pore-scale flow velocities. We know t ... Full text CiteHydrodynamic Porosity: A New Perspective on Flow through Porous Media, Part II
Journal Article Water Switzerland · August 1, 2024 In this work, we build upon our previous finding that hydrodynamic porosity is an exponential function of pore-scale flow velocity (or interstitial Reynolds number). We previously discovered this relationship for media with a square cavity geometry& ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Proposal for Significant Undergraduate Laboratory Innovation and Improvement of Fluid Mechanics and/or Communications Laboratories
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lord Foundation of North Carolina · 2007 - 2008Flow Cell & Virtual Fluid Mechanics Lab
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lord Foundation of North Carolina · 2000 - 2003Multiscale Modeling and Simulation in Scientific Inference: Hierarchical Methods for Parameter Estimation in Porous Flow
ResearchAdministrative Assistant · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1999 - 2002View All Grants