Luksa Luznik, Ph.D.

• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering
• Dissertation "Turbulence Characteristics of a Tidally Driven Bottom Boundary Layer of the Coastal Ocean"

• Master of Engineering, Ocean Engineering

• Bachelor of Engineering, Naval Architecture

• Turbulence and mixing in homogeneous and stratified flows
• Marine current turbines
• Optical flow measurement and visualization techniques
• Coastal oceanography, ocean observatories

• Fluid Dynamics
• Thermodynamics
• Engineering Experimentation

• Walker, J. M., Flack, K., Lust, E. E., Schultz, M.P., Luznik, L. (2014),” The Effects of Blade Roughness and Fouling on Marine Current Turbine Performance, “Renewable Energy, Vol. 66, p 257-267
• Lust, E.E., Luznik, L., Flack, K.A., Walker, J.M., Van Benthem, M.C. (2013), “The Influence of Surface Gravity Waves on Marine Current Turbine Performance,” International Journal of Marine Energy, 3-4, p 27-40.
• Luznik, L., Brownell, C.J., Snyder, M.R., and Kang, H.S. (2013), "The influence of the atmospheric surface layer on turbulent flow downstream of a ship superstructure," Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 30, p 1803–1819. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00216.1.
• Luznik, L, Flack, K.A., Lust, E.E., Taylor, K.C. (2013), “The Effect of Surface Waves on the Performance Characteristics of a Model Tidal Turbine,” Renewable Energy, Vol. 58, p 108-114 doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2013.02.022.
• Brownell, C.J., Luznik, L., Snyder, M.R., Kang, H.S., and Wilkinson, C.H. (2012), "In situ air velocity measurements in the near wake of a ship superstructure," Journal of Aircraft, 49 (5).
• Hackett, E.E., Luznik, L., Nayak, A.R., Katz, J., Osborn, T.R. (2011), “Field Measurements of Turbulence at an Unstable Interface Between Current and Wave Bottom Boundary Layers,” Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 116, C02022, doi:10.1029/2010JC006138.
• Hackett, E.E., Luznik, L., Katz, J., Osborn, T.R. (2009), “Effect of Finite Spatial Resolution on the Energy Turbulent Spectrum Measured in the Coastal Ocean Bottom Boundary Layer,” Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 26, p 2610-2625.

• Pi Tau Sigma Teaching Excellence Award, 2014
• Professional Membership
• American Physics Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
• American Geophysical UnionOceanic Engineering Society (OES)