Optimum design of hydraulic structures in rural and urban Australia: dealing with floods and droughts. Australia's long-term forecast suggests the occurrence of longer and more frequent droughts, and more intense flood events. The project will study the fundamental hydrodynamic processes in hydraulic structures and aims to develop new innovative designs derived from process based approach for optimum operation in rural and urban Australia.
Flow and transport in the nearshore regions of lakes and reservoirs. This project will develop an understanding of the motions in the nearshore region of lakes and reservoirs resulting from the effects of the changes in depth on heating and cooling. The result will be a relationship between the meteorological conditions and the net transport between the shore and the interior of the lake or reservoir.
A study of turbulence and influence of anthropogenic inputs in small subtropical estuaries. This project aims to improve our basic understanding of mixing and dispersion processes in small subtropical estuaries, and to develop improved predictive models to assist with the management of natural ecosystems. This will be the first comprehensive study of mixing processes and the influence of anthropogenic inputs in small subtropical estuaries.