Luettich, Jr.

Richard A. Luettich, Jr. (rick_luettich@unc.edu)

Associate Professor of Marine Sciences and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill; Adjunct Appointment in Civil Engineering, NCSU; Sc.D., Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Research Interests

Dr. Luettich's research areas are modeling and measurement of circulation and transport in coastal waters, turbulence and mixing, and the role of physical processes including advection and mixing in chemical/biological/geological processes such as water quality, larval recruitment, and sediment transport.

Representative Publications

Grenier, R. R., Jr., R. A. Luettich, Jr., and J. J. Westerink, A comparison of the frictional characteristics of two-dimensional and three-dimensional tidal models, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100(C), 13,719-13,735, 1995.

Luettich, R. A., Jr., D. R. F. Harleman, and L. Somlyody, Dynamic behavior of suspended sediment concentrations in a shallow lake perturbed by episodic wind events, Limnology and Oceanography, 35(5), 1046-1063, 1990.

Luettich, R. A., Jr., and J. J. Westerink, Continental shelf scale convergence studies with a barotropic tidal model, in Quantitative Skill Assessment for Coastal Ocean Models, edited by D. Lynch and A. Davies, Coastal and Estuarine Studies series, Vol. 48, pp. 349-371, American Geophysical Union press, Washington, D.C., 1995.

Luettich, R. A., Jr., J. J. Westerink, and N. W. Scheffner, ADCIRC: An advanced three-dimensional circulation model for shelves, coasts and estuaries, Report 1: Theory and methodology of ADCIRC-2DDI and ADCIRC-3DL, DRP Technical Report DRP-92-6, 137 pp., Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Miss., November 1992.

Peterson, C. H., H. C. Summerson, and R. A. Luettich, Jr., Response of bay scallops to spawner transplants: A test of recruitment limitation, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 132:93-107,1996.

Westerink, J. J., R. A. Luettich, Jr., and J. Muccino, Modeling tides in the western North Atlantic using unstructured graded grids, Tellus, 46a(2), 178-199, 1994.

Recent and Ongoing Projects

Development of the Three-Dimensional, Hydrodynamic, Computer Model ADCIRC

Tidal and Storm Surge Computations for U.S. Continental Waters

Role of Physical Transport in Recruitment of Scallop Larvae and Menhaden Larvae

Sediment Transport Pathways on a Cape Attached Shoal