David H. Richter

Education

Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2011-2013

Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2011

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2007

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 2006

Biography

Dr. Richter received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2011, having studied turbulence in non-Newtonian fluids. During a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, he shifted his focus to turbulence and transport in the environment, using numerical simulations as a tool for understanding complex behavior in nature.

Summary of Activities/Interests

Dr. Richter's group is interested in computational techniques such as direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulation for studying turbulence in the atmosphere and ocean.  In particular, turbulent exchange of heat, moisture, and momentum at the air-sea interface is an area where detailed knowledge of these processes is critical for accurate storm prediction. Dr. Richter is also interested in developing tools for simulating multiphase systems that can be applied to a wide variety of geophysical flows including subsurface sediment transport and saltation.

Publications

González, C., D. H. Richter, D. Bolster, S. Bateman, J. Calantoni, C. Escauriaza (2017), Characterization of bedload intermittency near the threshold of motion using a Lagrangian sediment transport model, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 17, pp 111-137

Richter, D.H. and F. Veron (2016), Ocean spray: An outsized influence on weather and climate, Physics Today, 69(11), pp 34-39

Richter, D. H., R. Bohac, and D. P. Stern (2016), An assessment of the flux profile method for determining air-sea momentum and enthalpy fluxes from dropsonde data in tropical cyclones, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, pp 2665-2682

Richter, D. H., O. Garcia, and C. Astephen (2016), Particle stresses in dilute, polydisperse, two-way coupled turbulent flows, Physical Review E, 93, pp 013111

Helgans, B., Richter, D.H. (2016), Turbulent latent and sensible heat flux in the presence of evaporative droplets, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 78, pp 1-11

Richter, D.H. (2015), Turbulence modification by inertial particles and its influence on the spectral energy budget in planar Couette flow, Physics of Fluids, 27, pp 063304

Richter, D.H., Sullivan, P.P. (2014), Modification of near-wall coherent structures by inertial particles.  Physics of Fluids, 26, pp 103304

Richter, D.H., Stern, D.P. (2014), Evidence of spray-mediated air-sea enthalpy flux within tropical cyclones, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, pp 2997-3003

Richter, D.H., Sullivan, P.P. (2014), The sea spray contribution to sensible heat flux. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, pp 640-654

Richter, D.H., Sullivan, P.P. (2013), Momentum transfer in a turbulent, particle-laden Couette flow.  Physics of Fluids, 25, pp 053304

Richter, D.H., Sullivan, P.P. (2013), Sea surface drag and the role of spray. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, pp 656-660

Richter, D.H., Iaccarino, G., Shaqfeh, E.S.G. (2012), Effects of viscoelasticity in the high Reynolds number cylinder wake.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 693, pp 297-318

Richter, D.H., Shaqfeh, E.S.G., Iaccarino, G. (2011), Numerical simulation of polymer injection in turbulent flow past a circular cylinder.  Journal of Fluids Engineering, 133, pp 104501-(1-5)

Richter, D.H., Shaqfeh, E.S.G., Iaccarino, G. (2010), Floquet stability analysis of viscoelastic flow over a cylinder.  Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 166, pp 554-565

Richter, D.H., Iaccarino, G., Shaqfeh, E.S.G. (2010), Simulations of three-dimensional viscoelastic flows past a circular cylinder at moderate Reynolds numbers.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 651, pp 415-442

Teixeira, R., Dambal, A., Richter, D.H.,  Shaqfeh, E.S.G., Chu, S. (2007), The individualistic dynamics of entangled DNA in solution.  Macromolecules, 40, pp 2461-2476

Bhardwaj, A., Richter, D.H., Chellamuthu, M., Rothstein, J.P. (2007), The effect of pre-shear on the extensional rheology of wormlike micelle solutions.  Rheologica Acta, 46, pp 1435-1528