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Professor Wilbert Lick Department
of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering Phone: (805) 893-4295 or (805) 964-2088 Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1958 Environmental Engineering and Fluid Mechanics: environmental engineering and science, fluid mechanics, numerical methods. |
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Professor Lick joined UCSB's College of Engineering in 1979. He obtained both his M.A.E. (1957) and Ph.D. (1958) degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to coming to UCSB, he taught at Harvard University and Case Western Reserve University. His main expertise is in the environmental sciences, fluid mechanics, numerical methods, and mathematical modeling. His present interests are in understanding and predicting the transport and fate of contaminants in surface and ground waters and the effects of these processes on water quality. His work involves laboratory experiments and numerical modeling with some field work for testing devices and data verification. More specifically, he and his students are presently working on (a) the sorption of organic chemicals to suspended solids and organisms as well as to consolidated soils and sediments, (b) the flocculation of fine-grained sediments, colloidal particles, and bacteria in water, (c) the transport by convection and diffusion of radionuclides in liquid and vapor form in porous media, (d) the availability of contaminants to organisms, (e) the measurement of erosion rates and properties of reconstructed and undisturbed sediments using Sedflume, and (f) the numerical modeling of currents and the transport and fate of sediments and contaminants in ground and surface waters. His emphasis here is on near-shore waters with applications to rivers, the Great Lakes, and Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. In addition to authoring over 100 journal articles and a book entitled Difference Equations from Differential Equations, Professor Lick is a consultant to federal and state governments as well as private industry. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ME Home | People | Research | Graduates | Undergraduate | News & Events | UCSB Home Page Revised August 19, 2006 - webmaster |