Assistant Professor
Dr. Wouter Mostert joined Missouri S&T as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department in 2020. He was previously a postdoctoral research associate at the department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His research is primarily in computational and theoretical fluid dynamics for wave-dominated fluid flows and hydrodynamic stability, investigating surface waves in ocean science, particularly breaking waves in deep and shallow water, and developing interests in bubble dynamics. Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Mostert received B.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from from the University of Queensland. Prior to his time at Princeton, he worked on interface stability and shock wave dynamics in gas dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics (that is, fluids with high electrical conductivities) on a variety of fundamental problems with application in inertial fusion techniques.
Dr. Mostert's research interests cover diverse topics which are unified by the common underlying physical mechanism of wave motion. He is working in the field of ocean science with respect to the dynamics and statistics of breaking ocean waves. These processes contribute significantly to the energy and mass transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere, constituting a major but poorly understood component of climate dynamics. His particular aim is to determine the physics of air entrainment in the sea, and water entrainment in the air, during a breaking event. This is an essentially three-dimensional, multiscale process which requires significant computational resources to investigate fully. In parallel Dr. Mostert is working to quantify energy dissipation in shallow water breaking events.
New Faculty 2020-2021
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About Wouter Mostert
Dr. Wouter Mostert joined Missouri S&T as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department in 2020. He was previously a postdoctoral research associate at the department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His research is primarily in computational and theoretical fluid dynamics for wave-dominated fluid flows and hydrodynamic stability, investigating surface waves in ocean science, particularly breaking waves in deep and shallow water, and developing interests in bubble dynamics. Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Mostert received B.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from from the University of Queensland. Prior to his time at Princeton, he worked on interface stability and shock wave dynamics in gas dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics (that is, fluids with high electrical conductivities) on a variety of fundamental problems with application in inertial fusion techniques.
Dr. Mostert's research interests cover diverse topics which are unified by the common underlying physical mechanism of wave motion. He is working in the field of ocean science with respect to the dynamics and statistics of breaking ocean waves. These processes contribute significantly to the energy and mass transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere, constituting a major but poorly understood component of climate dynamics. His particular aim is to determine the physics of air entrainment in the sea, and water entrainment in the air, during a breaking event. This is an essentially three-dimensional, multiscale process which requires significant computational resources to investigate fully. In parallel Dr. Mostert is working to quantify energy dissipation in shallow water breaking events.
New Faculty 2020-2021
| August 2020 - Present | Assistant Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |
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| December 2017 - July 2020 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University | |
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| July 2015 - November 2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia | |
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| 2012 | B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia | |
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Contact Information
337 Toomey Hall
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
573-341-4543
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