Water Engineering
Hydrodynamics and Hydraulics
We use field measurements, experiments, mathematical techniques and numerical methods to study the movement of water through and over the earth’s surface.
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Expertise
We have expertise in ecohydraulics, flood modelling, groundwater, overland flow, shallow water numerics and turbulence theory. Graham Sander is (co)editor-in-chief of Advances in Water Resources while Chris Keylock and Qiuhua Liang are associate editors for Water Resources Research and Journal of Hydrology.
Research
We undertake research around the world, and collaborate with some of the world's top universities including Cornell, EPFL, Imperial College and MIT. Recent projects include:
- The NERC-funded: Building REsilience to Multi-source Flooding in South/Southeast Asia through a Technology-informed Community-based approacH (REMATCH);
- The NERC-funded: FUTURE-DRAINAGE: Ensemble climate change rainfall estimates for sustainable drainage;
- The NERC-funded: Web-Based Natural Dam-Burst Flood Hazard Assessment and ForeCasting SysTem (WeACT);
- The EPSRC-funded special interest group on Nonequilibrium Turbulence.
We are involved with CENTA, which provides opportunities for PhD funding. Our current advertised projects include:
- Digital Twins for Natural Flood Management;
- Dispersion Modelling in Turbulence Canopies Using Filtering and Data Assimilation;
- Global River Networks Based on Remote Sensing Imagery and Hydrodynamic Modelling
Publications
Selected Recent Publications
- CHEN, H., LIANG, Q., LIANG, Z., LIU, Y., REN, T. 2020. Extraction of connected river networks from multi-temporal remote sensing imagery using a path tracking technique, Remote Sensing of Environment 246, 111868.
- KEYLOCK, C.J. 2019. Turbulence at the Lee bound: maximally non-normal vortex filaments and the decay of a local dissipation rate, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 881, 283-312.
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LISLE, I.G., SANDER, G.C., PARLANGE, J.-Y., ROSE, C.W., HOGARTH, W.L., BRADDOCK, R.D., STAGNITTI, F., LOCKINGTON, D.A., JOMAA, S., CHERAGHI, M., and BARRY, D.A. 2017. Transport time scales in soil erosion modeling, Vadose Zone Journal 16, 12.
- MARJORIBANKS, T.I., LAGUE, D., HARDY, R.J., BOOTHROYD, R.J, LEROUX, J., MONY, C. and PUIJALON, S. 2019. Flexural Rigidity and Shoot Reconfiguration Determine Wake Length Behind Saltmarsh Vegetation Patches, Journal of Geophysical Research124, 8, 2176-2196.
- XIA, X., LIANG, Q. and MING, X. 2019. A full-scale fluvial flood modelling framework based on a high-performance integrated hydrodynamic modelling system (HiPIMS), Advances in Water Resources 132, art. no. 103392.
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