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Department/Program(s):
    Position: Faculty
    Title: Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
    Area(s):
    • Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
    Research Area(s):
    Environmental flows and turbulence; urban environments and thermal exchanges in cities; dynamics of the lower atmosphere; surface-atmosphere interactions; hydrometeorology; climate change and water resources in the Middle East; large eddy simulation; distributed wireless sensing networks

    Office: C326 Engineering Quad C-Wing
    Phone: 609-258-5429
    Elie Bou-Zeid


    Education

    Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2005
    M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
    M.E., Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, American University of Beirut, 2000
    B.E., Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, 1997

    Research Interests 

    Professor Bou-Zeid's current research focuses on combining numerical, experimental, and analytical tools to study the basic dynamics of flow and transport in environmental systems. The aim is to study how Environmental Fluid Mechanics relate to problems in climate change, air quality, hydrology, and sustainable development.

    Boundary layer Meteorology, the study of dynamics and modeling of flow and transport in the thin (~1 km) layer of air near the earth surface, is a particular focus of our group. Most human activities and engineered systems are concentrated in this Atmospheric Boundary Layer; in addition, its dynamics are very important for surface-atmosphere couplings and for global atmospheric dynamics.

    Courses
     
    CEE 303: Introduction to Environmental Engineering (co-taught)
    CEE 305: Environmental Fluid Mechanics (Fall term - yearly)
    CEE 501: Environmental Engineering Fundamentals I: Atmospheric and Surface Processes
                   (co-taught)
    CEE 525: Introduction to Numerical Methods (co-taught)
    CEE***  :  Boundary Layer Meteorology (Spring term - alternate years)
      
    For more details on research interests and publications visit the Environmental Fluid Mechanics  research group web page: http://efm.princeton.edu

    Updated: May 15, 2009


    Recent Publications


    1. Bou-Zeid E., Overney J., Rogers B.D., and Parlange M.B., (2009). The Effects of Building Representation and Clustering in Large Eddy Simulations of Flows in Urban Canopies. Accepted for publication subject to minor revisions in Boundary-Layer Meteorology.
    2. Vercauteren N., Bou-Zeid E., Parlange M.B., and Brutsaert W. (2009). The estimation of wet-surface evaporation from sensible heat flux measurements. Water Resources Research, in press.
    3. Bou-Zeid E., Vercauteren N., Parlange M.B., and Meneveau C. (2008). Scale dependence of subgrid-scale model coefficients: an a-priori study. Physics of Fluids, 20(11), 115106.DOI: 10.1063/1.2992192.
    4. Vercauteren N., Bou-Zeid E., Parlange M.B., Lemmin U., Huwald H., Selker J., and Meneveau C. (2008). Subgrid-scale dynamics for water vapor, heat, and momentum over a lake. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 128(2), 205-228. DOI: 10.1007/s10546-008-9287-9.
    5. Bou-Zeid E., Parlange M.B., and Meneveau, C. (2007). On the parameterization of surface roughness at regional scales. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64 (1), 216-227. DOI: 10.1175/JAS3826.