Environmental Flow Physics Lab
EFPL @ Columbia University
Our group explores fundamental and applied problems in fluid dynamics and turbulence, with an emphasis on environmental flows. We focus on challenges related to atmospheric boundary layer flow phenomena and wind engineering, using supercomputers and physics-data driven methods.
Our research spans various domains, encompassing turbulence and turbulent transport in urban and plant canopies, urban and complex-terrain meteorology, air-sea interaction, and hurricane boundary layer dynamics.
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Recent News
Highlights
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Kytt training students on aerial LiDAR surveys at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory—targeting 1,000 points per square meter.
April 12, 2026
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Thank you, Manuel, for being part of EFPL and for the journey we shared. Your work and presence meant a lot to all of us. Wishing you all the best in the road ahead!
March 15, 2026
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Greetings from Antarctica, where we’re unraveling the mysteries of katabatic winds as part of an NSF OPP field campaign! Click here for more details.
December 20, 2024
More News
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Marco will give a talk at TTU on April 14, 2026 titled Insight into hurricane mean flow and turbulence from microscale large-eddy simulations.
April 12, 2026
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Welcome to Emanuele Quagliaro, an MS student from Rome Sapienza University, who will be working on scalar dispersion in plant canopies over the summer.
March 1, 2026
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Marco will give a talk at Stanford University on February 2, 2026 titled Flow physics analysis of the hurricane boundary layer.
February 1, 2026
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Congratulations Atharva on your latest paper which was just accepted in JFM: On the structure and dynamics of secondary flows over multi-column roughness in channel flow.
November 17, 2025
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Congratulations Kishore on your Boundary-Layer Meteorology publication: Analytical solution to a nonlinear single column model of hurricane boundary layer wind profiles outside the eyewall.
October 23, 2025
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Congratulations Manuel on your Journal of Open Source Software publication: PointClouds.jl: Fast & flexible processing of lidar data.
July 8, 2025
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Congratulations Jaeyoung on your Journal of Computational Physics publication: A path-conservative well-balanced high-order finite-volume solver for the volume-averaged Navier–Stokes equations with discontinuous porosity.
April 18, 2025
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Marco will give a seminar at Duke University on March 11, 2025 titled Characterizing Turbulent Transport in Realistic Atmospheric Boundary Layers.
February 22, 2025
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Congratulations Gurpreet on your Physics of Fluids publication: Physics-informed data-driven reconstruction of turbulent wall-bounded flows from planar measurements.
January 22, 2025
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Public and Private Partnerships
The Environmental Flow Physics Laboratory collaborates with governmental agencies and industry partners to address complex engineering challenges and drive discovery in the geosciences. We aim to advance the understanding of nature and our interaction with the environment. We are grateful for the generous support from the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Columbia University, and ACCESS (for high-performance computing resources).
Contact & Location
Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
Dr. Marco G. Giometto
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 638
500 W. 120th Steet, New York, NY 10027
Tel (212) 853-1799
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 610
500 W. 120th Steet, New York, NY 10027
Tel (212) 854-2993