Sooncheol Hwang

Sooncheol Hwang, Ph.D.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

Biography:
Sooncheol Hwang is a coastal researcher and code developer who conducts research on Coastal Hazards. His research highly focuses on the development of numerical models for simulating various nearshore hydrodynamics and transport phenomena (e.g., scalar transport governed by nearshore shallow water flows, storm surge, tides, wave breaking, rainfall, surface runoff, urban compound flooding), numerical schemes (e.g., HLL Riemann solver), and advanced simulation tools (e.g., GPU, VR). He has authored seven peer-reviewed publications on coastal hazard modeling, serving as the first author for Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (JCR Rank Top 5%) and as the corresponding author for JGR: Oceans (AGU journal). During his Ph.D. program, he received the KU-Hydro Jr. Fellow Scholarship, receiving over $2,000 in scholarship funds from the graduate school in 2021. Currently, He serves as a postdoctoral researcher in the Future and Fusion Lab of Architectural, Civil and Environmental Engineering, working on a one-way coupling approach between dispersive/nondispersive shallow water models and two-dimensional wet/dry boundary reconstruction method.

Research Keywords: Coastal Disaster, Numerical Model, Numerical Scheme, Virtual Reality, GPU