Research Activities
Examples of current research are:
- theoretical, numerical, laboratory and field investigations of the
movement of nutrients and pollutants in lakes, inland and coastal waters;
- flow instabilities, turbulence, and mixing in density stratified flows;
- sediment transport in rivers and tailings ponds;
- hydrologic modelling for flood control planning and management studies;
- river restoration;
- urban hydrology;
- application of optimization techniques and decision analysis to hydraulic
design, the operation of multi-purpose reservoirs, lake water and river
quality problems, fishery management and the design of water resource
systems;
- development of basin planning methods;
- hydrologic data gathering network design;
- wave damping and diffraction and wave induced loading of structures.
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Facilities
The Department of Civil Engineering occupies its own building and laboratory
complex. This complex includes a 900 m2 modern hydraulics laboratory with
a circulating capacity of 0.3 m3/s. The laboratory is equipped with a number
of free-surface-flow facilities, including a 25m flume and a recirculating
sediment flume. The facilities are adaptable to a wide range of research
activities. In addition, there is a well-equipped pollution control laboratory.
The department has excellent computing facilities, including numerous
networked PC's and UNIX computers, and access to other University computing
resources.
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Civil Engineering Hydrotechnical Faculty
| Michael
Isaacson |
Ocean engineering, coastal engineering and wave induced loading. |
| Bernard Laval |
Environmental fluid mechanics, physical limnology, coastal oceanography,
transport processes, hydrodynamic stability and mixing. |
| Gregory Lawrence |
Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability
and mixing, physical limnology, coastal engineering and water quality
management. |
| Barbara J. Lence |
Modelling and optimization of water quality and water resource systems,
environmental policy analysis, decision-making and probability analyses. |
| Noboru Yonemitsu |
Turbulent Fluid Dynamics, Biological/ecological Fluid mechanics and Instrumentation of Non-destructive Testing (NDT) |
| Robert G. Millar |
River engineering, hydraulics, hydrology and stream restoration. |
Faculty in Related Areas
| James
W. Atwater |
Solid wastes, toxic and hazardous waste management, water quality,
groundwater pollution, landfill and leachate management. |
| Loretta Li |
Soil-contaminant interaction, contaminant migration,
site remediation, clay liners and clay materials study in geo-environmental
practice and mine tailings waste. |
Active Emeritus Faculty
| Kenneth J. F. Hall |
Toxic materials in aquatic environments,
cycling of organics, water chemistry, trace organic analysis and eutrophication. |
| Michael C. Quick |
Mountain hydrology, forecasting of snow and glacier melt runoff,
river engineering, coastal erosion and beach forecasting. |
| S. O. Denis Russell |
Water resources engineering and management, hydrology and decision
analysis methods. |
Adjunct Faculty
| Ziad Shawwash |
Sponsored by BC Hydro: hydropower system modelling:
optimization of hydroelectric systems (including: planning and design
of small scale hydrosystems, sizing and facility location). |
| Peter Ward |
Ward & Associates, Ltd.: hydrology; hydraulics;
engineering fluid mechanics; design of hydropower structures and analysis
of feasibility of power facilities. |
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