Journal Articles (INTERNATIONAL)

Kirkil, G. (2020). Development of a parallel 3D navier–stokes solver for sediment transport calculations in channels. Computation, 8(4), 84.

Kirkil, G., & Lin, C. L. (2020). Large Eddy Simulation of Wind Flow over A Realistic Urban Area. Computation, 8(2), 47.

Yılmaz, M., Toros, H., İncecik, S., Öztürk, Z., Kirkil, G., Öztaş, D., … & Alp, O. (2020). Dilovası Hava Kirliliğinin Trafik Emisyonları Açısından Değerlendirilmesi. Ulusal Çevre Bilimleri Araştırma Dergisi, 3(1), 43-51.

Massaga, D. J., Kirkil, G., & Çelebi, E. (2019, September). A Comparative Study of Energy Models for Turkish Electricity Market Using LEAP. In 2019 16th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Ediger, Volkan Ş., Kirkil, G., Çelebi, E., Ucal, M., Kentmen-Çin, Ç. (2018), Turkish Public Preferences for Energy, Energy Policy, 120, sayfa: 492-502.

Shaikh, M. A., Kucukvar, M., Onat, N. C. and Kirkil, G. (2017) “A Framework for Water Footprint Analysis of National Electricity Production Scenarios.” Energy, 139, 406-421, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.07.124.

Kirkil, G. (2015) “Detached eddy simulation of shallow mixing layer development between parallel streams” Journal of Hydro-environment Research, 9 (2), doi: 10.1016/j.jher.2014.10.003

Mirocha, J., Kosovic, B. and Kirkil, G. (2014) “Resolved Turbulence Characteristics in Large Eddy Simulation nested within Mesoscale Simulation using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model.” Monthly Weather Review, 142 (2), 806-831, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00064.1.

Mirocha, J., Kosović, B., Kirkil, G. (2014) “Resolved Turbulence Characteristics in Large-Eddy Simulations Nested within Mesoscale Simulations Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model.” Monthly Weather Review, 142, 806–831, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00064.1.

Mirocha, J., Kirkil, G., and Bou-Zeid, E., Chow, F. K. and Kosovic, B. (2013) “Transition and Equilibration of Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow in One-way Nested Large-Eddy Simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model.” Monthly Weather Review, 141, 918-940, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00263.1.

Kirkil, G., Constantinescu, G. (2012) “A Numerical Study of the Laminar Necklace Vortex System and Its Effect on the Wake for a Circular Cylinder.” Physics of Fluids, 24 (7), 073602, doi: 10.1063/1.4731291.

Kirkil, G., Mirocha, J. and Bou-Zeid, E., Chow, F. K. and Kosovic, B. (2011) “Implementation and Evaluation of Dynamic Subfilter-scale Models in WRF.” Monthly Weather Review, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00037.1.

Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2010) “Flow and Turbulence Structure around an In-stream Rectangular Cylinder with Scour Hole.” Water Resources Research, 46, W11549, doi: 10.1029/2010WR009336.

Kirkil, G., Constantinescu, G, Ettema, R. (2009) “Detached Eddy Simulation Investigation of Turbulence at a Circular Pier with Scour Hole.” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 135(11), pp. 888-901.

Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2009) “Nature of Flow and Turbulence around an In-stream Vertical Plate in a Shallow Channel and Implications for Sediment Transport.” Water Resources Research, 45, W06412, doi: 10.1029/2008WR007363.

Ettema, R., Kirkil, G. and Daly, S. (2009) “Frazil Ice Concerns for Channels, Pump-lines, Penstocks, Siphons and Tunnels in Mountainous Regions.” Cold Regions Science and Technology, 55(2), pp. 202-211. doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2008.04.008.

Kirkil, G., Constantinescu, G, Ettema, R. (2008) “Coherent Structures in the Flow Field around a Circular Cylinder with Scour Hole.” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 134 (5), pp. 572-587.

Ettema, R., Kirkil, G., Muste, M. (2006) “Similitude of Large-Scale Turbulence in Experiments on Local Scour at Cylinders.” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 132 (1), pp. 33-40.

Bilge, A.H., Kirkil, G., Burak, S., Incegul, M. (2016) “Modeling of Wind Effects on Stratified Flows in Open Channels: A Model for the Istanbul Strait (Bosphorus)” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 738 (1), 012069.

Conference Papers and Proceedings:

Özçelik, S., Çelebi, E., Kirkil. G. (2017) Models for Long-term Electricity Price Forecasting for Turkish Electricity Market. International Conference on Energy and Thermal Engineering, İstanbul (Tam metin bildiri)

Kirkil, G. (2017). Turbulence Characteristics of a Shallow Mixing Layer Developing over 2-D Dunes. 37th IAHR World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Tam metin bildiri)

Kirkil, G. (2016). Flow Structure in a Mixing Layer Developing over Flat Bed at High Reynolds Numbers, River Flow 2016, Saint Louis, USA (Tam metin bildiri)

Ezber, Y., Kaytancı, T., Kirkil, G. (2014). WRF’s Wind Power Ensembles for a Wind Farm Located in a Coastal Area of Turkey. AMS 21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, UK (Tam metin bildiri),

Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2013). “A numerical study of shallow mixing development over flat surface and dunes” Proc. 35th IAHR Congress, Vancouver, September 2013.

Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2013). “Flow and turbulence structure around an in-stream rectangular cylinder with scour hole” Proc. 35th IAHR Congress, Vancouver, September 2013.

Mirocha, J. and Kirkil, G. (2010) “Nested high-resolution mesoscale/large eddy simulations in WRF: challenges and opportunities.” Proc. The Fifth Int. Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, Chapel Hill, May 2010.

Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2009). “Mean Flow and Coherent Structures in a Shallow Mixing Layer Developing Between Parallel Streams.” Proc. 33rd IAHR Congress, Vancouver, August 2009.

Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2008). “Influence of Large Scale Bed Roughness on the Development of Shallow Mixing Layers.” Proc. The Second International Symposium on Shallow Flows, Hong Kong, December 2008.

Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2008). “On the Coupling between the Horseshoe Vortex System and the Wake in a Shallow Flow past a bottom-mounted Cylinder.” Proc. The Second International Symposium on Shallow Flows, Hong Kong, December 2008.

Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2007). “A Comparison of Horseshoe Vortex System at a Circular Bridge Pier between Initial and Final Stages of Scouring Process.” Proc. The Fifth International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, Tempe, Arizona, December 2007.

Kirkil, G. (2007). “Interaction of Horseshoe Vortex, Detached Shear Layers and Near-Wall Turbulence during Scour at a Bridge Pier.” Proc. International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, October 2007.

Koken, M., Kirkil, G. and Constantinescu, G. (2007). “Coherent Structures in the Flow around a Bridge Abutment and a Bridge Pier at Equilibrium Scour Conditions.” Proc. XXXII IAHR Congress, Venice, Italy, July 2007.

Ettema, R. and Kirkil G. (2007) “Frazil Ice Concerns for Channels, Pump Lines, Penstocks, Siphons, and Tunnels in Mountainous Regions.” Proc. 14th Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers, Quebec City, Canada, June 2007

Kirkil, G., Constantinescu, G. and Ettema, R. (2006). “On the Coupling among the Bed, Detached Shear Layers and Horseshoe Vortex System in the Flow around a Bridge Pier.” Proc. 3rd International Conference on Scour and Erosion, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2006.

Ettema R., Kirkil, G. (2006). “Vorticity Similitude in Experiments on Local Scour.” Proc. XXII Latin American Congress on Hydraulics, Venezuela, October 2006.

Kirkil, G., Constantinescu, G. and Ettema, R. (2006). “Investigation of the Velocity and Pressure Fluctuations Distributions inside the Turbulent Horseshoe Vortex System around a Circular Bridge Pier.” Proc. International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, Lizbon, Portugal, September 2006.

Kirkil, G., Constantinescu, G. and Ettema, R. (2005). “The Horseshoe Vortex System around a Circular Bridge Pier on Flat Bed.” Proc. XXXI IAHR Congress, Seoul, Korea, September 2005.

Kirkil, G., Constantinescu, G. and Ettema, R. (2005). “The Horseshoe Vortex System around a Circular Bridge Pier on Equilibrium Scour Bed.” World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, Alaska, USA, May 2005.

Kirkil, G., Ettema, R. and Muste, M. (2004). “Similitude of Coherent Turbulence Structures in Flume Studies of Bridge Scour.” Proc. 2nd International Conference on Scour and Erosion, Singapore, November 2004.

Journal Articles

  1. Star, M. L., Tileylioglu, S, Givens J. M., Mylonakis G. and Stewart, J.P. (2019),”Evaluation of SoilStructure Interaction Effects from System Identification of Structures Subject to Forced Vibration Tests” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 116 747-760 
  2. Tileylioglu, S., Stewart, J.P Nigbor, R.L. (2011). “Dynamic stiffness and damping of a shallow foundation from forced vibration of a field test structure”, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 137(4), 344-353. 
  3. Stewart, J.P. and Tileylioglu, S. (2007). “Input ground motions for tall buildings with subterranean levels,” The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 16(5), 543-557.

Conference Papers and Presentations:

  1. Cikis, M.,Tileylioglu, S., Akagunduz, E. (2020) “Representing Earthquake Accelerogram Records for CNN Utilization,” 2020 28th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), October 5-7,2020. 
  2. Givens, M.J., Star, L.M., Tileylioglu, S., Mylonakis, G., Stewart, J.P. (2015). “Analysis of Foundation Damping from Theoretical Modeling and Forced Vibration Testing,” 6th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, November 1-4, 2015.
  3. Tileylioglu, S., Naeim, F., Alimoradi, A., Stewart J.P. (2010). “Impact of foundation modeling on the accuracy of response history analysis of a tall building,” Proc. 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, EERI and Canadian Assoc. for Earthquake Eng., July 25-29, 2010, Paper No. 1666. 
  4. Tileylioglu, S., Nigbor, R.L., and Stewart, J.P. (2008). “Determination of soil-structure interaction effects for a model test structure using parametric system identification procedures,” Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Dynamics IV, May 18-22, 2008, Sacramento, CA, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 181, D. Zeng, M.T. Manzari, and D.R. Hiltunen (eds.), 10 pages (electronic file). 
  5. Nigbor R. L, Hansen M., Tileylioglu S., Baek J (2007). “Elevators as repeatable excitation source for SHM in buildings,” 6th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring 2007, September 11-13, 2007, Stanford University, Stanford CA, Quantification, Validation and Implementation, 379-386.

Journal Articles

  1. Acikel,      A.S., Singh, R.M, Bouazza, A, Gates, W.P, & Rowe, R.K. (2015).      Applicability and accuracy of the initially dry and initially wet contact      filter paper tests for matric suction measurement of geosynthetic clay      liners. Géotechnique, 65(9), 780-787.
  2. Acikel,      A. S., Gates, W. P., Singh, R. M., Bouazza, A., & Rowe, R. K. (2018).      Insufficient initial hydration of GCLs from some subgrades: Factors and      causes. Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 46(6), 770-781. (Best Paper Award      for 2018)
  3. Acikel,      A. S., Gates, W. P., Singh, R. M., Bouazza, A., Fredlund, D. G., &      Rowe, R. K. (2018). Time-dependent unsaturated behaviour of geosynthetic      clay liners. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 55(12), 1824-1836.      doi:10.1139/cgj-2017-0646
  4. Acikel,      A.S., Rowe, R.K., Brachman, R.W.I., Baral, A., Su, G., (2019). The impact      of multi-component hypersaline wetting on soluble and exchangeable cations      and water retention behaviour of MX80 bentonite. Applied Clay Science.      180, 105174.
  5. Acikel,      A. S., A. Bouazza, W. P. Gates, R. M. Singh, and R. K. Rowe (2020), A      novel transient gravimetric monitoring technique implemented to GCL      osmotic suction control, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 48(6), 755-767.
  6. Acikel,      A.S., Rowe, R.K. and McWatters, R.S. (2020). Impact of the Extreme      Antarctic Environment on Time Dependent Unsaturated Behaviour of      Geosynthetic Clay Liners. Geosynthetics International (published online)
  7. Acikel,      A.S., Bouazza, A., Singh, R.M., Gates, W.P., and Rowe, R.K. (2020).      Challenges of the Filter Paper Suction Measurements of Geosynthetic Clay      Liners: Method, Time, Capillarity, and Hysteresis. Geotechnical Testing      Journal (under revision)

Conference Paper and Poster Presentations

  1. Acikel,      A.S. & Ozkan, M.T. (2005). A comparison between soil nailing design      methods, and pre-design charts, Proceeding of Geotechnical Symposium,      Adana, Turkey (in Turkish).
  2. Acikel,      A.S., Rojas, J.C. & Mancuso, C. (2008) A new saturation procedure for      UNINA high capacity tensiometer (HCT), first results, IARG Conference      Paper, Catania, Italy.
  3. Acikel,      A.S. & Mancuso, C. (2010). Use of CO2 gas to improve saturation of      high capacity tensiometer (HCT), Proceeding of the 4th Asia Pacific      Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Newcastle, Australia.
  4. Acikel,      A.S., Singh, R.M., Bouazza, A., Gates, W.P., & Rowe, R.K., (2011).      Water retention behaviour of unsaturated geosynthetic clay liners,      Proceedings of the IACMAG 2011 conference, Melbourne, Australia.
  5. Brachman,      R.W.I., Hosney, M.S., Su, G., Rowe, R.K., Acikel, A.S., Baral, A., Nguyen,      T.S., Lange, K., Brown, J., Li, Z., and Nguyen, S. (2017). Effect of brine      on swelling pressure of MX-80 bentonite and bentonite-sand mixture. Poster      presentation in 7th International Conference on Clays in Natural and      Engineered Barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement, Davos, Switzerland.

Technical Reports

  1. Acikel,      A.S. (2010). Technical Report submitted to Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils      for Engineering project founded by European Commission in Scope of Marie Curie      Actions of Framework 6.
  2. Acikel,      A.S. (2015). Water retention behaviour of compacted MX80 and Sand/MX80      mixtures under hypersaline condition. Technical Report submitted to CNSC      project, Queen’s University, Kingston.
  3. Acikel,      A.S. (2017). Time dependent unsaturated behaviour of geosynthetic clay      liners. Technical report chapter, Australian Antarctic Division, Queen’s      University, Kingston.
  4. Di      Battista, V., A. S. Acikel, and R. K. Rowe (2017), Remediation of      Emergency Powerhouse Fuel Spill Casey Station Antarctica, 13/834,      Technical Report Rep., Australian Antarctic Division.

Dissertations

  1. Acikel,      A.S. (2002), Geometric Characteristics of Istanbul Subway Lines, B.Sc.      dissertation; Istanbul, Turkey.
  2. Acikel,      A.S. (2005). A comparative calculation method for soil nailed retaining      walls, M.Sc. dissertation; Istanbul, Turkey (in Turkish).
  3. Acikel,      A.S. (2016). Unsaturated Behaviour of Geosynthetic Clay Liners. Ph.D.      dissertation, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Journal Articles

C.Gürkan, E. Sala-Lardies, M.Kronbichler, and S.Fernandez-Mendez. Extended hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for void problemsJ. Sci. Comput., 66(3):1313-1333, 2016. [3 times cited, journal impact factor 2.37, in Applied Mathematics catagory 26th out of 254 journas, Q1 quartile in its catagory]

C. Gürkan, M.Kronbichler, and S.Fernandez-Mendez. Extended hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin with heaviside enrichment for heat bimaterial problems. J. Sci. Comput., 72(2): 542-567, 2017. [2 times cited, journal impact factor 2.37, in Applied Mathematics catagory 26th out of 254 journas, Q1 quartile in its catagory]


C. Gürkan, M.Kronbichler and S.Fernandez-Mendez. Extended Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin for incompressible flow problems with unfitted meshes and interfacesInt. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 117(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5975, 2018 [journal impact factor 2.746, in Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications catagory 19th out of 105 journas, Q1 quartile in its catagory]C. Gürkan, E.Sala-Lardies, M. Kronbichler, and S. Fernandez-Mendez. Extended Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for Void and Bimaterial ProblemsAdvances in Discretization Methods, Vol., pp. 103-122, 2016 (book chapter)

C. Gürkan, A Massing, A stabilized cut discontinuous Galerkin framework for elliptic boundary value and interface problemsComput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 348: 466-499, 2019. [journal impact factor 4.821, in Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications catagory 2nd out of 105 journas, Q1 quartile in its catagory]

C. Gürkan, S. Sticko, A Massing, Stabilized cut discontinuous Galerkin methods for advection reaction problemsSIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, https:// doi.org/10.1137/18M1206461

C. Gürkan, F. Heimann, C. Lehrenfeld, A.Massing, A stabilized cut discontinuous Galerkin framework: III. Surface and mixed dimensional coupled problemsin preparation

Conference Presentations

11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics– 20-25th July 2014 Barcelona/Spain Gürkan C., Fernandez-Mendez S., Sala-Lardies E., Kronbichler M. Extended hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for void problems

The 18th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems – 16-18 March 2015 Taipei/Taiwan – Gürkan C., Fernandez-Mendez S, Sala-Lardies E, Kronbichler M.­Extended hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for void problems

3rd ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference-July 20-23, 2015, Aachen, Germany­ Gürkan C., Fernandez-Mendez S, Sala-Lardies E, Kronbichler-Extended hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for bi-material problems

Extended Discretization Methods– 9-11 September 2015 Ferrara/Italy- Gürkan C., Fernandez-Mendez S, Sala-Lardies E, Kronbichler M. – Extended hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for void and bimaterial problems

ECCOMAS 2016-5-10 June2016Creta/Greece – Gürkan C., Fernandez-Mendez, Kronbichler M. – Extended hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for heat bimaterial problems

12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics – 24-29 July 2016 Seoul/South Korea – Gürkan C., Fernandez-Mendez S, Kronbichler M. – Extended hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for bimaterial problems.

The 19th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems – 5-7 April 2017 Roma/Italy – Gürkan C., Fernandez-Mendez S, Kronbichler M. – Extended hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for bimaterial and moving interface problems.

Extended Discretization Methods 2017 – 19-21 June 2017 Umea/Sweden – Gürkan C., Fernandez-Mendez S, Kronbichler M. – Extended hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) for bimaterial and moving interface problems.

13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics – 22-27 July 2018 NewYork/USA – Gürkan C, Massing A. – A Stabilized Cut Discontinuous Galerkin Framework (cutDG): I. Boundary Value and Interface Problems

Dissertations

Gürkan C. (2011), Structural Analysis of New Doha International Airport, B.Sc. dissertation; Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Gürkan C. (2013). Computational Aerodynamic Design Optimization Using Reduced Order Modeling for Large Deformation Problems, M.Sc. dissertation; Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.

Gürkan C. (2018). Extended Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method, Ph.D dissertation; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.