Professor of Applied Marine Physics

Research Interests

Biography

Prof. Willemsen holds a Ph.D from the University of Chicago (1972) and had extensive industrial applications experience with Schlumberger-Doll Research before coming to RSMAS. Prior to his industrial work he taught in the UCal system at Santa Cruz and was a research associate in the Center for Theoretical Physics at M.I.T. as well as at the Stanford Linear Accelorator Center.

Recent Publications

Note: In all instances where my name does not appear, citations were either to myself alone or alphabetical with (usually) my own name appearing last.

"Deterministic modeling of driving and dissipation for ocean surface gravity waves in two spatial dimensions", Jour. of Geo. Res. Oc., in press (2002)

"Deterministic modeling of driving and dissipation for ocean surface gravity waves", Jour.of Geo. Res. Oc., 106, 27187-27204 (2001)

"Enhanced Computational Methods for Nonlinear Hamiltonian Wave Dynamics. Part II: New Results", Jour. of Oc. and Atm. Tech., 18 775, (2001)

" Enhanced Computational Methods for Nonlinear Hamiltonian Wave Dynamics", Jour. of Oc. and Atm. Tech. 15, 1517 (1998)

"Analysis of SWADE Discus N Wind Speed and Wave Height Time Series. Part II: Quantitative Growth Rates during a Storm", Jour. of Oc. and Atm. Tech., 14, 630 (1997)

"Analysis of the SWADE Discus N Wind and Wave Timeseries: I. A Discrete Wavelet Packet Decomposition", Jour. of Oc. and Atm. Tech., 12, 1248-1270 (1995)

"Exact Solution of the Wave Dynamics of a Particle Bouncing Chaotically on a Periodically Oscillating Wall", Phys. Rev. E, 50, 3116-3125 (1994)

"Structures Generated by Model Nonlinear Hamiltonians Based on Ocean Waves", Fractals 1, 529-538 (1993)

"Dynamical Time Scales Generated by a Model Nonlinear Hamiltonian", Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 529-538 (1993)

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