Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

San Diego State University

Svetlana Kostic

Assistant Professor

Dr. Kostic’s specialty is Environmental Fluid Dynamics and Sediment Transport. She combines advanced numerical modeling with experimental testing and field investigations to study water flow/sediment transport interactions in subaerial and submarine environment, mixing dynamics of pollutant discharges, transport processes, and stratification dynamics. 

 

Dr. Kostic’s website

 

Education

 

Ph.D. 2001, Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
M.S.  1998, Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
B.S.  1988, Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia

 

Sample Publications

 

Kostic S. & Parker G. (2007). Conditions Under Which a Supercritical Turbidity Current Traverses an Abrupt Transition to Vanishing Bed Slope Without a Hydraulic Jump, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 586(8), pp. 119-145.

 

Fildani A., Normark W., Kostic S. & Parker G. (2006), Channel Formation by Flow Stripping: Large-Scale Scour Features Along the Monterey East Channel, Sedimentology, 53(6), pp. 1265-1287.

 

Kostic S. & Parker G. (2003), Progradational Sand-Mud Deltas in Lakes and Reservoirs, Part 1. Theory and Numerical Modeling, Journal of Hydraulic Research, 41(2), pp. 127-152.

 

Kostic S, Parker. G & Marr, J. (2002), Role of Turbidity Currents in Setting the Foreset Slope of Clinoforms Prograding into Standing Fresh Water, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72(3), pp. 353-362.

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