Nigel Wright

Nigel Wright is Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development and holds a zero-appointment at the Technical University in Delft. Before joining UNESCO-IHE in April 2006 he was Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics at the University of Nottingham. He has over 20 years experience in the application of computer modelling to environmental flows. He has obtained and managed research grants to a value of over €3 million from a number of agencies. He is a past Chair of the British Section of the International Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He has published over 120 journal and conference papers. At UNESCO-IHE Prof Wright is responsible for education and research in the core of Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development. Additionally he is Deputy Head of the Department of Water Engineering and leads the group implementing the Institute's new educational strategy.He manages research from a number of funding agencies and teaches around the world as part of UNESCO-IHE's mission of capacity building in developing and newly-emerging economies. Professor Wright's recent research has focused on innnovative numerical modelling for practical river flows. He is a member of the UK Flood Risk Management Research Consortium.

Key Publications:

Lee, S. H. and Wright, N. G. (2008). "Simple and efficient solution of the shallow water equations with source terms." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, accepted subject to minor revision.

Carling, P., I. Villanueva, J. Herget, N. Wright, P. Borodavko and H. Morvan (2008). "Unsteady 1-D and 2-D hydraulic models with ice-dam break for Quaternary megaflood, Altai Mountains, southern Siberia." Global and Planetary Change, in press.

Owen, J.S., D. Sun, and N.G. Wright (2008), Two Equation RANS Models for Wind-Induced Vibration Study of 2D Bluff Bodies. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. in press.

Schubert, J. E., B. F., Sanders, M. J., Smith and N. G. Wright (2008). "Unstructured mesh generation and landcover-based resistance for hydrodynamic modeling of urban flooding." Advances In Water Resources, .doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.07.012

Sterling, M., F. Beaman, H. Morvan, and N. Wright, Bed shear stress characteristics of a simple, prismatic, rectangular channel. ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 134(12), 2008.

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