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Benoit Cushman-Roisin

Education

• BS, Engineering Physics, University of Liège (Belgium) 1978
• PhD, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Florida State University 1980

Research Interests

Environmental transport processes; environmental fluid mechanics; industrial ecology; sustainable design; energy efficiency

Current Research Projects

• Environmental fluid mechanics

Teaching

• ENGS 44: Sustainable Design

Selected Publications

• Cushman-Roisin, B., 2008: "Beyond eddy diffusivity: An alternative model for turbulent dispersion," Env. Fluid Mech., 8, 543-549.
• Cushman-Roisin, B., and A. D. Jenkins, 2006: "On a non-local parameterization for shear turbulence and the uniqueness of its solutions," Boundary-Layer Meterorol., 118, 69-82.
• Cushman-Roisin, B., M. Gacie, P.-M. Poulain, and A. Artegiani, 2001:
• Cushman-Roisin, B., N.J. Rice, and M.A. Moldaver, 2000: "A simulation tool for Industrial Ecology," J. Industrial Ecology 3, 131-144.
• Esenkov, O. E., and B. Cushman-Roisin, 1999: "Modeling of two-layer eddies and coastal flows with a particle method," J. Geophys. Res, 104, 10959-10980.

Books

Selected Patents

• Geometry of heat exchanger with high efficiency (9,134,072)
• Turbo-compressor-condenser-expander (8,578,733)

Professional Activities

• Editor-in-Chief (and Founding Editor), Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2000-present.
• Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
• Co-organizer and co-convener of "Modelling of Oceanic Vortices" colloquium, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

News

• Four Materials Illustrate Hazards Of Electronics Manufacturing
  WisContext
  August 15, 2017

• 2015’s Greenest Cities in America
  WalletHub
  October 14, 2015

• Dartmouth Engineering Professors Discuss Promising Technologies for the Environment
  April 15, 2013

• Rev 7: The World’s First Removable, Biodegradable Gum?
  The Huffington Post
  October 15, 2011

• How Green Is My Wintergreen?
  Slate
  April 19, 2011

• Exhibit champions green design
  The Dartmouth
  January 26, 2010

• Green Houses
  VOX of Dartmouth
  April 3, 2006

In Dartmouth Engineer Magazine

• Curriculum: Danish Foreign Exchange Program
  Winter 2016

• Mastering Engineering Management
  Fall 2014

• A Conversation with Professor Benoit Cushman-Roisin
  Web Extra, May 2014

• Classroom: ENGS 37: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
  Spring 2014

• The Business Case for Sustainability
  Fall 2013

• Publications: Faculty Books
  Winter 2012

• Classroom: Sustainable Communities
  Summer 2008

• Investiture: Class of 2008
  Summer 2008

• Classroom: Industrial Ecology
  Spring/Summer 2007

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