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Randy Kolar
Randy Kolar
CEES Director and Professor
David Ross Boyd and Austin Presidential Professor
Associate Director, WaTER Cente
r
kolar@ou.edu
Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering,
University of Notre Dame
B.S., Civil Engineering and Mathematics,
University of Idaho
Registered Professional Engineer,
Idaho and Oklahoma
Technical Areas
Civil Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Water Resources
Hydrology
Research Interests
Computational issues in water resources
Development of efficient, robust algorithms for finite element shallow water models
High performance computing
Numerical analysis
Equation development using averaging theory
Variably-saturated groundwater flow and transport
Applications ranging from hydrodynamic models of estuaries, bays and impoundments to infiltration models.