The goal of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) is to investigate energy-relevant science, using the Department of Energy’s (DOE) world-leading computing resources. Key to this mission is capturing and understanding extreme events and their impact on energy infrastructure through high-resolution simulation. One of the applications of interest for DOE is the impact of coastal inundation and the decadal evolution in flood risk due to hurricane storm surge, tides, and sea level change.
Dr. Steven Brus,
Argonne National Laboratory
This seminar will give an overview of several efforts to incorporate relevant coastal processes into E3SM and its ocean component model, MPAS-Ocean. The talk will specifically discuss: coupled atmosphere-surface gravity wave-ocean interactions, tidal forcing with online self-attraction and loading, and wetting and drying informed by subgrid-scale topography. Each of these developments paves the way for E3SM to be the first global, coupled Earth system model to explicitly represent coastal inundation in decadal-scale simulations.
Steven Brus is a computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on bridging the global and coastal scales for ocean processes within the Energy Exascale Earth System Model. His work centers on coupled wind-wave/ocean processes, tidal modeling, and coastal flooding. He also has a background in high-order methods for unstructured meshes and high-performance computing.
Steven received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and his Ph.D. in civil engineering, both from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining Argonne, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a recipient of the 2023 Department of Energy Early Career Award for coastal-urban flooding.