Research

Environmental fluid dynamics.

Selected Publications

-M.G. Wells, S. Bailey and B. Ruddick (2011) The dilution and dispersion of ballast water discharged into Goderich Harbor. Marine Pollution Bulletin 62  1288-1296
 doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.03.005

-M.G. Wells, C. Cenedese and C.P. Caulfield (2010) The relationship between flux coefficient  and entrainment ratio  in density currents. J. Phys. Oceanog.   40(12) 2713–2727 doi: 10.1175/2010JPO4225.1

-Cossu, R., M.G. Wells. and A.K. Wahlin (2010) Influence of the Coriolis force on the velocity structure of gravity currents in straight submarine channel systems. Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans 115, C11016 doi:10.1029/2010JC006208

-Cossu, R., and M.G. Wells (2010) Coriolis forces influence the secondary circulation of gravity currents flowing in large-scale sinuous submarine channel systems.  Geophysical Research Letters., 37, L17603, doi:10.1029/2010GL044296.

-L.A. Wyngaarden, K.M. Vogeli, B. Ciruna, T.P. Yamaguchi, D.Y. Stainier, G.R. Martin, M.G. Wells, A-K Hadjantonakis and S. Hopyan. (2010) Oriented cell motility and division underlie early limb bud morphogenesis. Development 137(15)  2551-2558, doi:10.1242/dev.046987

-M.G. Wells and S. Parker. (2010)  The thermal variability of the waters of Fathom Five National Marine Park, Lake Huron.  J. Great Lakes Res. 36, 570-576 doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2010.04.009

-M.G. Wells. (2009)  How Coriolis forces can limit the spatial extent of sediment deposition of a large-scale turbidity current. Sedimentary Geology, 218, 1-5  doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.04.011   
-M.G. Wells and P. Nadarajah. (2009)  The intrusion depth of density currents flowing into stratified water bodies. J. Phys. Oceanog. 39, 1935–1947.

-M.G. Wells and L, Sealock, (2009) Summer Water Circulation in Frenchman's Bay, a Shallow Coastal Embayment Connected to Lake Ontario,  J.Great Lakes Res., 35(4) 548-559  doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2009.08.009

-M.G. Wells and J. S. Wettlaufer (2008). The circulation in Lake Vostok: A laboratory analogue study. Geophysical Research Letters. 35, L0350, doi:10.1029/2007GL032162

-M.G. Wells and J. S. Wettlaufer (2007) The long-term circulation driven by density currents in a two-layer stratified basin. J. Fluid Mech. 572,  37 - 58

-M.G. Wells,  H.J.H. Clercx, and  G.J.F. van Heijst (2007)  Vortices in oscillating spin-up. J. Fluid Mech. 573, 339 - 369

-M.G. Wells and J. S. Wettlaufer (2005) Two dimensional density currents in a confined basin Geophys. Astro. Fluid Dyn. 99 , 199-218