Wu-ting Tsai
        Mailing address: Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
        Email: wttsai@ntu.edu.tw
        Phone: +886-2-3366-5772
        Fax: +886-2-2392-9885


Education Backgrounds
         Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering, Ph.D. (1991)   (Thesis)
         National Taiwan University, Department of Naval Architecture, B.S. (1981); M.S. (1983)
 

Professional Experiences
        2012 – now
Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University
        2002 – 2012
Professor, Director (20042007), Institute of Hydrological and Oceanic Sciences, National Central University, Taiwan
        20072009
Convener, Oceanography Program, Department of Natural Sciences, National Science Council, Taiwan
        20022012
Professor by courtesy, Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University,Taiwan
        19992012
Professor (19992002), Professor by courtesy (20022012), Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
        19941999
Associate Professor (19941997) and Professor (19971999), Department of Oceanography, National Taiwan Ocean University
        19911994
Post-doctorate Associate (19911992) and Research Engineer (19921994), Department of Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Representative Publications  Publication list

Tsai, W.-T., Lu, G.-H., Chen, J.-R., Dai, A. and Phillips, W.R.C. 2017. On the formation of coherent vortices beneath non-breaking free-propagating surface waves. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 47(3), 533543.

Tsai, W.-T., Chen, S.-M. and Lu, G.-H. 2015. Numerical evidence of turbulence generated by non-breaking surface waves. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45(1), 174–180.
     
Tsai, W.-T., Chen, S.-M., Lu, G.-H. and Garbe, C. 2013. Characteristics of interfacial signatures on a wind-driven gravity-capillary wave. J. Geophys. Res., 118(4), 17151735.

Tsai, W.-T. and Hung, L.-P. 2010. Enhanced energy dissipation by parasitic capillaries on short gravity-capillary waves. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40(11), 2435–2450.