Contact Info

Biography

Personal Gender Pronoun: He/Him/His

Education:

Ph.D., Auburn University
M.CE., Auburn University
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Research Expertise:
Fate and transport of contaminants; Oil spill response and shoreline remediation; Bioremediation; Variable density flow; Parallel computing

My research projects and clinics include: Engineers without Borders; RED – Introduction to Infrastructure; Pressurized Flow in Fractures; Ecological Impact of Seawalls; Petroleum Supply Chain Failure During Floods in NJ; Visual Instruction Media Development; Evolutionary Algorithms for Reactive Transport; Impact of Sustainable Structures on Rowan Campus

Honors and Awards:
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, 2007, Department of Energy

Recent Publications:
Parker, P. J., & Penn, M. R., & Apul, D. S., & Garcia, M. E., & Torlapati, J. (2018, June), Board 99: Collaboratively Developing an Introductory Infrastructure Systems Curriculum: The One Water Module Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Boufadel, M., Abdollani-Nasab, A., Xiaolong, G., Galt, J., Torlapati, J., (2014) Simulation of Landfall of the Deepwater Horizon Oil on the Shorelines. Environmental Science & Technology, 2014, 48(16), 9496-9505

Torlapati, J., and Boufadel, M. (2014). Evaluation of the biodegradation of Alaska North Slope oil in microcosms using the biodegradation model BIOB." Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiology 5: 212.

Zhao, L., Torlapati, J., Boufadel, M., King, T., Lee, K., and Norman, L., (2014). VDrop: A numerical model for the simulation of droplet formation from oils of various viscosities, Chemical Engineering Journal. 253, 93-106

Arthur, R. D., Torlapati, J., Cha, D., Kim, B.J., and Son, A. (2014) Process control factors for microbial reduction of perchlorate in the presence of zero-valent iron, Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering, 8(3): 386-393