Current Position

 

Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Concurrent Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
M.S., Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, John Hopkins University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Sri Lanka

Research Interests

Prof. Fernando is conducting research on complex terrain flows, and more recently has focused on wind turbine siting.

Key Words

Complex Terrain, Winds, Wind Energy

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Sharma, A., S. Woodruff, M. Budhathoki, A. F. Hamlet, F. Chen, and H. J. S. Fernando. "Role of green roofs in reducing heat stress in vulnerable urban communities—A multidisciplinary approach." Environmental Research Letters 13, no. 9 (2018): 094011.
2. Sharma, A., A. F. Hamlet, H. J. S. Fernando, C. E. Catlett, D. E. Horton, V. R. Kotamarthi, D. A. R. Kristovich, A. I. Packman, J. L. Tank, and D. J. Wuebbles. "The need for an integrated land‐lake‐atmosphere modeling system, exemplified by North America's Great Lakes region." Earth's Future 6, no. 10 (2018): 1366-1379.
3. Sharma, Ashish, Harindra JS Fernando, Alan F. Hamlet, Jessica J. Hellmann, Michael Barlage, and Fei Chen. "Urban meteorological modeling using WRF: a sensitivity study." International Journal of Climatology 37, no. 4 (2017): 1885-1900.
4. Lozovatsky, Iossif, Jesus Planella-Morato, Kipp Shearman, Qing Wang, and Harindra Joseph S. Fernando. "Vertical mixing and elements of mesoscale dynamics over North Carolina shelf and contiguous Gulf Stream waters." Ocean Dynamics 67, no. 6 (2017): 783-798.
5. Morrison, Travis J., Marc Calaf, Harindra JS Fernando, Timothy A. Price, and Eric R. Pardyjak. "A methodology for computing spatially and temporally varying surface sensible heat flux from thermal imagery." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 143, no. 707 (2017): 2616-2624.

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