Luksa Luznik

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering Department

United States Naval Academy

590 Holloway Road

Annapolis, MD 21402-5042

(410) 293-6528

Fax (410) 293-3041

luznik@usna.edu

Education: 

The Johns Hopkins University, (Sept. 00 - Feb. 06)

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation "Turbulence Characteristics of a Tidally Driven Bottom Boundary Layer of the Coastal Ocean"

Memorial University of Newfoundland, (Sept. 95 - May 97)

Masters of Engineering, Ocean Engineering

Memorial University of Newfoundland, (May 91- May 95)

Bachelor of Engineering, Naval Architecture

Research Areas:

Turbulence and mixing in homogeneous and stratified flows     

Optical flow measurement and visualization techniques

Coastal oceanography, ocean observatories     

Hydrodynamics of marine vehicles     

Professional Experience:

Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy (Aug. 08 - Present)

Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, JHU , (March 06 - July 08)

Research Assistant, Laboratory for Experimental Fluid Dynamics, JHU, (Sept. 00 - Feb. 06)

Research Engineer, BMT Fleet Technology, Kanata, ON, Canada, (Jan. 98 - Aug 00)

Recent Journal Publications:

Hackett, E. E., Luznik, L., Katz, J., Osborn, T. R. (2009), "Effect of Finite Spatial Resolution on the Turbulent Energy Spectrum Measured in the Coastal Ocean Bottom-Boundary Layer", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. Accepted.

Luznik, L., Gurka, R., Zhu, W., Nimmo Smith, W.A.M., Katz, J., Osborn, T. R. (2007), "Distributions of energy spectra, Reynolds stresses, turbulence production and dissipation in a tidally driven bottom boundary layer", Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, p 1527-1550.

Van Hout, R., Zhu, W., Luznik, L., Katz, J., Kleissl, J., Parlange, M. (2007) "PIV measurements in the atmospheric boundary layer within and above a mature corn canopy. Part I: Statistics and energy flux". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, p 2805-2824.

Zhu, W., van Hout, R., Luznik, L., Kang, H., S., Katz, J., Meneveau, C. (2006) "A comparison of PIV measurements of canopy turbulence performed in the field and in a wind tunnel model", Experiments in Fluids, 41, p 309-318.

Book Chapter:

Nimmo Smith, W.A.M., Luznik, L., Zhu, W., Katz, J. and Osborn, T.R. (2004), "Turbulence distributions and flow structure in the coastal ocean from PIV data". In PIV and Water Waves, Gru, J., Liu, P.L.F. and Pedersen, G.K. (eds.), Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 9.