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Professor
Dr. Gregory A. Lawrence
Bio

Dr. Greg Lawrence holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and has been a faculty member at UBC since 1987.  Focusing on the impact of the fluid mechanics of inland and coastal waters on water quality, chemistry and biology, Lawrence is investigating techniques to minimize the environmental impact of waste discharge; restoring and rehabilitating lakes and other water systems that have been polluted.  Dr. Lawrence was elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2011 and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering in 2012, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Camille Dagenais Award for his contributions to the development and practice of hydrotechnical engineering in Canada (2011), the BC Premier's Award (2010), and the Journal of Environmental Engineering Editor's Award (2001). Dr. Lawrence is also an instructor in the UBC Master of Engineering Leadership in Integrated Water Management. 

Research Area / Group
Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Hydrotechnical Engineering
Research Interests

Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability and mixing, physical limnology, water quality management.

Courses
CIVL 215

Fluid Mechanics I

Fluid properties, hydrostatics, kinematics, and fluid dynamics: energy and momentum methods with applications. Dimensional analysis, modelling, introduction to flow in pipes and forces on immersed objects.

CIVL 315

Fluid Mechanics II

Two dimensional flow around immersed objects; velocity and pressure fields; lift and drag on cylinders and aerofoils; fluid loads on structures and structural response; pumps and turbines; analysis and design of pipeline systems; unsteady flow in pipes; frictionless waterhammer analysis.

CIVL 417

Coastal Engineering

General discussion of waves; linear wave theory; finite amplitude waves; standing waves; seiches; harbour design; wave shoaling, refraction and diffraction; beaches and coasts; wave statistics; wave generation; wave forces on piles, walls and breakwaters; tides; instrumentation and modelling techniques.

CIVL 541

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Analysis of density stratified flows with application to water quality problems in inland and coastal waters.

CIVL 542

Physical Limnology

Physical processes that affect the behaviour of lakes, including reservoirs, water filled mine pits, mine tailings ponds and other standing water bodies. Impacts of these processes on water quality, and methods used in the rehabilitation of lakes.

Latest Publications

2020

J. Olsthoorn, Bluteau, C. E., and Lawrence, G. A., “Under‐ice salinity transport in low‐salinity waterbodies”, Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 6544, no. 2, pp. 247 - 259, 2020.
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D. Hurley, Lawrence, G. A., and Tedford, E., “Effects of Hydrocarbons on Wind Waves in a Mine Pit Lake”, Mine Water and the Environment, vol. 391294111753697165932125351843125443504274319, no. 3C554C4231056342152, pp. 455 - 463, 2020.
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2019

W. Dong, Tedford, E. W., Rahmani, M., and Lawrence, G. A., “Sensitivity of vortex pairing and mixing to initial perturbations in stratified shear flows”, Physical Review Fluids, vol. 4, no. 6, 2019.
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M. F. Schmid, Lawrence, G. A., Parlange, M. B., and Giometto, M. G., “Volume Averaging for Urban Canopies”, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, vol. 1736903631323516416241301213256160106303840148114971225661813333272218665661340132816167789760, no. 3, pp. 349 - 372, 2019.
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Y. E. Imam, Laval, B., Pieters, R., and Lawrence, G. A., “The baroclinic response to wind in a multiarm multibasin reservoir”, Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 651428, no. 3, pp. 582 - 600, 2019.
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A. J. K. Yang, Tedford, E. W., and Lawrence, G. A., “The spatial evolution of velocity and density profiles in an arrested salt wedge”, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 403 - 408, 2019.
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J. Olsthoorn, Tedford, E. W., and Lawrence, G. A., “Diffused-interface Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a nonlinear equation of state”, Physical Review Fluids, vol. 4, no. 9, 2019.
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2018

E. Tedford, Halferdahl, G., Pieters, R., and Lawrence, G. A., “Temporal Variations in Turbidity in an Oil Sands Pit Lake”, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2018.
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2017

C. E. Bluteau, Pieters, R., and Lawrence, G. A., “The effects of salt exclusion during ice formation on circulation in lakes”, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 579-590, 2017.
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2016

G. A. Lawrence, Tedford, E. W., and Pieters, R., “Suspended solids in an end pit lake: potential mixing mechanisms”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 43, pp. 211-217, 2016.
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Contact
lawrence@civil.ubc.ca
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604.822.5371
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6250 Applied Science Lane
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
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Department of Civil Engineering
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