Robert A. Dalrymple
Willard & Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
3400 No. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
rad@jhu.edu
Tel: 410-516-7923
Fax: 410-516-7473
Research Interests
Water waves, nearshore hydrodynamics, coastal processes, and modeling free surface flows with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics.
Coastal Engineering Laboratory, Stieff Building.
Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics
Classes
Coastal Engineering
Civil Engineering Analysis
Introduction to Water Waves
Coastal Modeling
Councils, Committees
National Research Council, Committee for the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) Program
First (letter) report, May, 2008
COPRI Coastal Engineering Research Council, ASCE; Chair since 2006.
JHU Academic Computing Advisory Committee
Resume
Online Resume
Whiting School Version of Resume
Research
Mechanisms of Fluid-Mud Interactions Under Waves
SPH Modeling of Waves
In the News
- Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine
- New Orleans
- Dec 26 Tsunami
- Other
Dean and Dalrymple II
These pages provide information, updates, and errata.
Software
SPHysics, nee JHU-SPH, SPHnyx.
Stream Function Wave Theory
N-Layer Stream Function Wave Theory
REFRACT (tar file includes all)
CACR Software REF/DIF, FUNWAVE etc.
Odds and Ends
Join coastal_list, the coastal engineering email list.
Take a look at The Coastal
Engineering Page.
Try the Java coastal engineering applets with your Java-enhanced web browser at www.coastal.udel.edu/faculty/rad
Pictures: A picture of Dalrymple in Thailand, pointing to a tsunami water line. Here's a picture
at UD, showing me putting dye into a rip current generated in the Ocean
Engineering Laboratory's Directional Wave Basin. This study of rip
current generation in the vicinity of sand bars was funded by ONR.
Finally, here's a picture from Waves 2001 with Robert G. Dean (my Ph.D. advisor), Leslie Ewing and Becky Edge (K. Barnes photo).
Classical guitar: Here I am with my Antonio Raya Pardo guitar. 
Here is my Flamenco guitar, made by James T. Kirby, a former student and colleague at the University of Delaware.
My classical guitar instructor is Branimir Krstic, teacher, performer, and composer.