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Hubert Chanson (b. November 1, 1961) is a
professor in hydraulic engineering and applied
fluid
mechanics in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland since
1990. He lectures civil and environmental engineering students in a
variety of courses including fluid mechanics, hydraulic
engineering, civil design, engineering history, coastal processes
and environmental modelling. His research interests include the
hydraulics of open channel flows, the design of hydraulic
structures, experimental investigations of two-phase flows, coastal
and estuarine hydrodynamics, water quality modelling, environmental management and
natural resources.
Publications
Chanson authored several books among which: Hydraulic Design
of Stepped Cascades, Channels, Weirs and Spillways (Pergamon, 1995), Air
Bubble Entrainment in Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows (Academic Press,
1997), The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An
Introduction (Edward Arnold/Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999 & 2004),
The Hydraulics of Stepped Chutes and Spillways (Balkema,
2001), Environmental Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows (Elsevier, 2004) and
Applied Hydrodynamics: An Introduction to Ideal and Real Fluid
Flows (CRC
Press/Balkema 2009). He co-authored the book Fluid
Mechanics for Ecologists (IPC Press, 2002) and he edited
several other books (Balkema 2004, IEaust 2004, The University of
Queensland 2006, 2008). The textbook The Hydraulics of Open
Channel Flow: An Introduction has already been translated into
Chinese (Hydrology Bureau of Yellow River Conservancy Committee)
and Spanish (McGraw Hill Interamericana) and the second edition
appeared in 2004. He has further published over 470 peer-reviewed papers
and his work was cited more than 2,400 times. His h-index is 17 excluding the
citations of his books (Ref.: Web of Science, on 1 Aug. 2009).
The
International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research
(IAHR) presented Chanson with the 13th Arthur Ippen Award for
outstanding achievements in hydraulic engineering. The American Society of
Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute
(ASCE-EWRI) presented him with the 2004 award for the best practice
paper in the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering ("Energy Dissipation and Air
Entrainment in Stepped Storm Waterway", Chanson and Toombes
2002). In 1999 he was awarded a Doctor of Engineering from the University of Queensland for
his outstanding research achievements in gas-liquid bubbly
flows.
Outside
works
Chanson has been active also as an expert consultant for both
governmental agencies and private organisations [1].
He chairs the organisation of the 34th IAHR Biennial Congress in Brisbane,
Australia to be held from 26 June to 1 July 2011 [2].
He participated to a number of audio-visual documentaries on tidal bore and tsunami, including 'La Tribu du
Mascaret' (Surfing the Dordogne, 2004), 'Les Fils de la Lune' (Sons
of the Moon, 2005) and 'Animaux Sentinelles: Alerte au Tsunami'
(Wenn Tiere Alarm Schlagen: Die Tsunami Warner, 2008). He lives in
Brisbane, Australia, with
his wife Ya-Hui (Karen) Chou and their children Bernard, Nicole and
André.
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