Water Resources Engineering at Oxford University
Research into Water Resources Engineering includes the application of computational hydraulics to shallow-flow hydrodynamics, water quality and sediment transport in rivers, shallow lakes and estuaries. There is also substantial interest in sustainability, environmental engineering, hydrological forecasting, flood control and floodplain management. This work involves collaboration with Peking University, the Technical University of Budapest, the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University (STANKIN).
Advanced adaptive grid shallow flow solvers have been developed and validated for application to wide rivers, shallow lakes and coastal lagoons. A variety of numerical schemes have been utilised to model water-borne pollutant transport. Chaotic advection of particles in oscillatory tidal flows has been simulated, and is an area of active research interest.
Details of on-going Water Resources Engineering Projects are available.