David Basco - Old Dominion University
Director, Coastal Engineering Center
Professor

Ph. D-Engineering

Expertise:
Coastal engineering as practiced by civil engineers. Coastal hydrodynamics and water wave mechanics; the physical and numerical modeling of wave breaking phenomena. The stochastic design of coastal structures. Factual understanding of how seawalls and beaches interact. Alternatives for increasing the effective fill life of renourished beaches. Dredging engineering and siltation of harbors and marinas. Computational fluid dynamics: the numerical simulation of free surface, long and short wave phenomena in rivers, estuaries and near shore coastal regions.

General Contact Phone Number:  757.683.3223
E-mail Address                            :  dbasco@odu.edu
Web Page URL                           :   http://eng.odu.edu/cee/directory/basco.shtml