Robert Dalrymple
Distinguished Professor Of Coastal Engineering at Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Dalrymple is a distinguished coastal engineer and academic leader with over four decades of research and teaching experience in water wave mechanics, numerical modeling, and coastal engineering. Currently Distinguished Professor of Coastal Engineering at Northwestern and Willard & Lillian Hackerman Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins, he has held endowed chairs and led coastal engineering programs since the early 1970s. His work bridges fundamental wave theory and practical numerical models used to predict coastal response, reflecting a rare blend of deep theory and applied impact. Trained with a Ph.D. in Civil and Coastal Engineering from the University of Florida and an M.S. in Ocean Engineering from Hawaii, he has mentored generations of engineers across premier institutions. Based in Evanston, Illinois, he continues to influence coastal resilience research and education while maintaining an active role in academic leadership. An often overlooked facet of his career is the sustained continuity of scholarship and chaired appointments spanning nearly five decades, underscoring both longevity and sustained relevance in a changing field.
15 years of coding experience
43 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Ocean Engineering, M.S., Ocean Engineering at University of Hawaii at ManoaA.B., Engineering Science, A.B., Engineering Science at Dartmouth CollegePh.D., Civil and Coastal Engineering, Ph.D., Civil and Coastal Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (8)
particle9
multi-gpu8
gpu7
smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics7
fsi7
cuda7
hydrodynamics7
hpc6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
GPUSPH/gpusph
Feb 2011 - Aug 2011
The world's first CUDA implementation of Weakly-Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Contributions:12 commits in 5 months
cudaparticlegpucompressiblesmoothed-particle-hydrodynamics
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