Education

1997 Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
1993 M.A. Sc. (Civil Engineering) University of British Columbia, specialization in Coastal and Ocean Engineering
1991 B.Sc.E. (Civil Engineering) Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada, First Class Honours

Years of Service on this Faculty

Principal Publications

Journal Papers

• Kennedy, A.B., and Thomas, D.* (2004). "Drifter measurements in a laboratory rip current", Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, 109, C08005, doi:10.1029/2003JC001927.
• Brocchini, M., Kennedy, A., Soldini, L., and Mancinelli, A. (2004). "Topographically-controlled, breaking wave-induced macrovortices. Part 1. Widely separated breakwaters", J. Fluid Mech., 507, 289-307.
• Kennedy, A.B. (2003). "A circulation description of a rip current neck", J. Fluid Mech., 497, 225-234.
• Kennedy, A.B., and Kirby, J.T. (2003). “An unsteady wave driver for narrow-banded waves: Modeling nearshore circulation driven by wave groups", Coastal Engineering, 48(4), 257-275.
• Misra, S. K., Kennedy, A. B. and Kirby, J. T., (2003). “An approach to determining nearshore bathymetry using remotely sensed ocean surface dynamics'', Coastal Engineering, 47(3), 265-293.
• Kennedy, A.B., Kirby, J.T., and Gobbi, M.F. (2002) “Simplified higher order Boussinesq equations. 1: Linear simplifications.”, Coastal Eng., 44(3), 205-229.
• Shi, F., Dalrymple, R.A., Kirby, J.T., Chen, Q., and A. Kennedy (2001). “A fully nonlinear Boussinesq model in generalised curvilinear coordinates”. Coastal Engineering 42(4), 337-358. (Note: 9th most downloaded paper in Coastal Engineering, Jan 2001-Dec. 2001.)
• Kennedy, A.B, Kirby, J.T., Chen, Q., and Dalrymple, R.A. (2001). “Boussinesq-type equations with improved nonlinear performance”. Wave Motion 33, 225-243.
• Kennedy, A.B., Dalrymple, R.A., Kirby, J.T., and Chen, Q. (2000). “Determination of inverse depths using direct Boussinesq modeling”, J. Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Eng., 126(4), 206-214.
• Kennedy, A.B., Chen, Q., Kirby, J.T., and Dalrymple, R.A. (2000). “Boussinesq modeling of wave transformation, breaking and runup. I: 1D” J. Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Eng., 126, 39-47.
• Chen, Q., Kirby, J.T., Dalrymple, R.A., Kennedy, A.B., and Chawla, A. (2000). “Boussinesq modeling of wave transformation, breaking and runup. II: 2D”. J. Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Eng., 126, 48-56.
• Chen, Q., Kirby, J.T., Dalrymple, R.A., Kennedy, A.B., and Haller, M.C. (1999). “Boussinesq modelling of a rip current system”. J Geophys, Res. 104(9): 20,617-20637.

• Haas, K.A., Sapp, B.K., and Kennedy, A.B. (2004). "Laboratory measurements of time-varying rip currents". To appear in Proc. Int. Conf Coastal Eng., Lisbon.
• Mehta, A., and Kennedy, A.B. (2004). "Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering: 50 years of a unique discipline at the University of Florida", J. Coastal Res., in press.
• Kennedy, A.B., Shi, F., and Kirby, J.T. (2003). "Time-dependent wave forcing in computational hydrodynamics", Proc. 2nd MIT Conf. Solid Fluid Mech., Boston, 956-960.
• Kennedy, A.B., Kirby, J.T., and Shi, F. (2002). "Computing unsteady wave refraction and diffraction in the nearhshore", Proc. 28th Int. Conf. Coastal Eng., Cardiff, 426-438.
• Kennedy, A.B., and Dalrymple, R.A. (2001). “Wave group forcing of rip currents”, Proc. Waves 2001, ASCE, San Francisco, 1426-1435.
• Kennedy, A.B., Kirby, J.T., and Gobbi, M.F. (2000). “Improved performance in Boussinesq-type equations”, Proc. 27th Int. Conf. Coastal Eng., Sydney, 651-663.
• Misra, S.K.*, Kennedy, A.B., Kirby, J.T., and Dalrymple, R.A. (2000). Proc. 27th Int. Conf. Coastal Eng., Sydney, 1197-1216.
• Gobbi, M.F., Kirby, J.T., and Kennedy, A.B (2000). “On the consistency of Boussinesq models and their ability to predict vertical vorticity fields”, Proc. 27th Int. Conf. Coastal Eng., Sydney, 1321-1334.
• Chen, Q., Kirby, J.T., Dalrymple, R.A., Kennedy, A.B., Thornton, E.B., and Shi, F. (2000). “Boussinesq modelling of waves and longshore currents under field conditions”. Proc. 27th Int. Conf. Coastal Eng., Sydney, 651-663.

Honors and Awards 

1994-97 Commonwealth Fellowship
1992 Third Place CSCE National Student Paper Competition
1991-93 NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship
1991 Medalist in Civil Engineering (graduating first in class)
1991 Medalist in Applied Science (graduating first in faculty)
1989-90 Association of Professional Engineers Scholarship
1988-90 James H. Rattray Memorial Scholarship
1987-88 Queen’s Honour Matriculation Scholarship

Scientific and Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union
Association of Coastal Engineers
Canadian Society for Civil Engineering