Amanda L. Wood

Educational Background

M. Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Houston – 2020
Graduate Certificate, Online Teaching and Learning, University of Houston – 2019
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Houston – 2010
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Houston – 2000
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Houston – 1997

Instructional Faculty Teaching Award, Texas A&M University College of Engineering – 2016
Best in Session (Hydraulics) Paper, Texas ASCE Spring Meeting – 2008

Wood, A., Wang, K.-H (2015). “Modeling Dam-break Flows in Channels with 90 Bend Using an Alternating-Direction Implicit Based Curvilinear Hydrodynamic Solver.” Journal of Computers & Fluids, pages 254-264.
Horrillo, J.J., A.L. Wood, G.-B. Kim, and A. Parambath, (2013). "A simplified 3-D Navier-Stokes numerical model for landslide-tsunami: Application to the Gulf of Mexico." Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans).
Horrillo, J.J., A.L. Wood, C. Williams, A. Parambath, and G.-B. Kim, (2010). Construction of tsunami inundation maps in the Gulf of Mexico, Tech. Rep, National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP), National Weather Service Program Office, NOAA.
Wood, A. L., and Wang, K.-H. (2008). "Simulation of Free-Surface Flows in a Curvilinear Coordinate System." Texas Section ASCE- Hydraulic Session, Spring Meeting, American Society of Civil Engineers, Corpus Cristi, Texas.
Wood, A. L., and Wang, K.-H. (2008). "Modeling Free Surface Flows with a Steep Wave Front by an ADI Finite-Difference Scheme in a Curvilinear Coordinate System." Inaugural International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Wood, A. L., and Wang, K.-H. (2007). "2D Dam-Break Analysis: MacCormack Scheme Based Curvilinear Hydrodynamic Model " Texas Section ASCE- Hydraulic Session, Fall Meeting, American Society of Civil Engineers, Fort Worth, Texas.