Biography
Mahmoud Sadek received his Ph. D from Cornell University. His work at Cornell focused on combining the two- and three-dimensional linear instability analysis with large-scale serial and parallel numerical simulation to investigate different transition mechanisms of the bottom boundary layer under surface solitary waves. Mahmoud is originally from Cairo, Egypt where he received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from Cairo University. Mahmoud's research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, high-order numerical methods, hydrodynamic instability theory, computational engineering, high accuracy spectral computational methods for high Reynolds number flows in complex geometries, and high performance parallel scientific computing. Currently, He joined University of Rochester as a postdoctoral researcher in September 2015.