Coastal & Hydraulics Engineering Research Group

Coastal engineering - academic staff

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  Professor Tom Baldock

  Head of School, Civil Engineering

  Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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  Associate Professor David Callaghan

  Associate Professor

  School of Civil Engineering
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  Professor Peter Nielsen

  Professor

  School of Civil Engineering

Former research scholars

Below are some of our previous PhD students and their thesis topics.

• Dr Muhammad Ibrahim (2020): Swash overtopping on plane beaches – reconciling empirical and theoretical scaling laws using the volume flux.
• Dr Peter Ware (2019): Interaction and growth of low frequency and high frequency wind waves.
• Dr Jesper Nielsen (2019): Reducing the turbidity of the Brisbane River Estuary, Australia.
• Dr Amir Hedjripour (2018): Lattice Boltzmann modelling of supercritical shallow water flows.
• Dr Alexander Atkinson (2018): Laboratory Beach Profile Dynamics and Responses to Changing Water Levels with and without Nourishment.
• Dr Xinqian Leng (2018): Study of Turbulence: the Unsteady Propagation of Bores and Surges.
• Dr Gangfu Zhang (2017): Free-Surface Aeration, Turbulence, and Energy Dissipation on Stepped Chutes with Triangular Steps, Chamfered Steps, and Partially Blocked Step Cavities.
• Dr Theo Moura (2016): Infragravity wave forcing in the surf and swash zone.
• Dr Tomoko Shimamoto (2016): Beach Recovery and Studies in Accretive Sediment Transport.
• Dr Mehdi Rezapour (2016): A New Methodology for Classification of Tropical Cyclones: the importance of rainfall.
• Dr Zhonglian Jiang (2015): Swash zone boundary conditions and direct bed shear stress measurements over loose sediment beds.  
• Dr Ilya Othman (2014): Influence of grain size on swash zone sediment transport.
• Dr Hang Wang (2014): Turbulence and Air Entrainment in Hydraulic Jumps.
• Dr Bruno Simon (2014): Effects of Tidal Bores on Turbulent Mixing: a Numerical and Physical Study in Positive Surges.
• Dr Nazanin Khezri (2014): Modelling Turbulent Mixing and Sediment Process Beneath Tidal Bores: Physical and Numerical Investigations
• Dr Behnam Shabani (2013): Nearshore and Surf Zone Wind Stress.
• Dr Stefan Felder (2013): Air-Water Flow Properties on Stepped Spillways for Embankment Dams: Aeration, Energy Dissipation and Turbulence on Uniform, Non-Uniform and Pooled Stepped Chutes.
• Dr David Wainwright (2012): Dynamic Modelling of Coastal Lagoon Opening Processes.
• Dr Hannah Power (2011):  Hydrodynamics of surf and swash on natural beaches. Dean’s award for excellence.
• Dr Jaya Kumar Seelam (2011): Measurement and Modelling of Bed Shear Induced by Solitary waves. Dean’s award for excellence
• Dr Kim Son Pham: (2010): Influence of Long Waves and Wave Groups on Swash Zone Sediment Transport
• Dr Panut Manoonvoravong (2010): Sediment transport and beach morphodynamics induced by long waves
• Dr Paul Guard (2010): Sheet Flow Sediment Transport and Swash Hydrodynamics
• Dr Matt Barnes (2009): Measurement and Modelling of swash zone bed shear stress. Dean’s award for excellence
• Dr Gordon Dalton (2007): Perceptions, performance and economics of renewable energy supply within the Australian tourism industry
• Dr Matt Tomkins (2007): Hydraulic Sorting of Coastal Heavy Mineral Sands