Kendra Dresback

Email: dresback@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-8529
Office: Carson Engineering Center, Room 313

Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (2008)
University of Oklahoma

M.S., Civil Engineering (1999)
University of Oklahoma

B.S., Civil Engineering (1997)
University of Oklahoma

• Hydrodynamic modeling of coastal seas and oceans, coupled meteorological/hydrologic/hydraulic model systems for coastal flooding, high-performance computing, computational fluid dynamics and environmental fluid mechanics and finite element methods, algorithm development for finite element methods, and applications in riverine environments for hydrodynamic and hydraulic models.

• R.L. Kolar, T.C.G. Kibbey, C.M. Szpilka, K.M. Dresback, E.M. Tromble, I.P. Toohey, J.H. Hoggan and J.H. Atkinson, “Process-Oriented Tests for Validation of Baroclinic Shallow Water Models: The Lock-Exchange Problem,” Ocean Modelling, 28(1-3), 137-152, 2009. 
• J. H. Atkinson, J.J. Westerink, T. Wamsley, M. Cialone, J.C. Dietrich, K.M. Dresback, R.L. Kolar, D. Resio, C. Bender, B. Blanton, S. Bunya, W. de Jong, B. Ebersole, A. Grzegorzewski, B. Jensen, H. Pourtaheri, J. Ratcliff, H. Roberts, J. Smith, C.M. Szpilka, “Hurricane Storm Surge and Wave Modeling in Southern Louisiana: A Brief Overview,” Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference, K. Bedford (ed.), American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 467-506, 2008. 
• R. L. Kolar, K. M. Dresback, C. M. Szpilka, J. H. Atkinson, E. M. Tromble, T. C. G. Kibbey, R. A. Richard and J. L. Hoggan, “A Comparison of Continuous and Discontinuous Galerkin Algorithms for Shallow Water Transport,” Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference, M.L. Spaulding and K. Bedford (eds.), American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 503-522, 2006. 
• K. M. Dresback, R. L. Kolar and R. A. Luettich, “On the Form of the Momentum Equation and Lateral Stress Closure Law in Shallow Water Modeling,” Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference, M.L. Spaulding and K. Bedford (eds.), American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 399-418, 2006. 
• K. M. Dresback, C. A. Blain and R. L. Kolar, “Methods to Compute Baroclinic Pressure Gradients in FE Models,” Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference, M.L. Spaulding and K. Bedford (eds.), American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 103-119, 2002.
•  J. C. Dietrich, R.L. Kolar and K. M. Dresback, “Another Look at Mass Balance in GWCbased Shallow Water Models,” ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 134(5), 520-532, 2008. 
• K. M. Dresback, R. L. Kolar and J. C. Dietrich, “On the Form of the Momentum Equation for Shallow Water Models Based on the Generalized Wave Continuity Equation,” Advances in Water Resources, 28, 345-358, 2005. 8. K. M. Dresback, R. L. Kolar and J. C. Dietrich, “A 2D Implicit Time-Marching Algorithm for Shallow Water Model Based on the Generalized Wave Continuity Equation,” Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 45, 253-274, 2004.
• K. M. Dresback, C. A. Blain and R. L. Kolar, “Resolution and Algorithmic Influences on the Baroclinic Pressure Gradient in Finite Element Based Hydrodynamic Models” Computational Methods in Water Resources XV Volume 2: Computational Methods, Surface Water Systems and Hydrology, C.T. Miller, et al. (eds.), pp.1755-1766, 2004. 
• FEMA, Flood Insurance Study: Southeastern Parishes, Louisiana, Intermediate Submission 2: Offshore Water Levels and Waves, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 850 pp., 2007.