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My address: 

Bjørn Gjevik                           Mail:    bjorng@math.uio.no 
Mechanics Division		       Tel:     +47 22 85 58 56
Department of Mathematics              Fax:     +47 22 85 43 49
Box 1053 Blindern
N-0316 Oslo
Norway

Professor in hydrodynamics at The University of Oslo.

Research interests:

Geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical modeling of flows, tides, storm surge and storm response, shelf sea dynamics, topographically induced eddies over banks, swell wave, internal waves, lee waves and eddies in the atmosphere. and

Projects:

Tidal models

GITEC

Vortex dynamics

The Lofoten Maelstrom

Teaching:

Undergaduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics and wave theory.
Fall term 2007: Lecturing MEK2200 - Continuum Mechanics -- fluids and elastic media
Spring term 2008: Lecturing MEK1100 - Vector calculus and theory fields. Written compendium and problems available from course homepage.

Recent publications

author: Bjørn Gjevik <bjorng@math.uio.no>