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.
