Welcome to the Earth Processes & Environmental Flows (EPEF) group at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh. My research group combines fundamental and applied research topics. Fundamental topics include: mechanics of sediment transport, high-resolution description of hydrodynamic and morphodynamics in subaerial and submarine meandering channels, dynamics of anabranching rivers, long-term prediction of river morphodynamics, development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models for environmental flows, environmental hydrodynamics, and transport and mixing processes. Applied topics include: river restoration, bank protection using instream-structures, development of GIS-tools for river management, development of CFD models for hydraulic structures (e.g. dropshafts and fish-passage canoe-chutes). The EPEF research group seeks understanding of geophysical processes in laboratory-scale (theoretical, physical experiments, and numerical approaches) and field-scale (theoretical, numerical and field work). More about our current and past projects, see the link Research.

Please feel free to contact me for more information!

Jorge D. Abad

jabad@pitt.edu
Phone: (412) 624-4399
Fax: (412) 624-0135
Office: 943 Benedum

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News (Page updated: 10/20/2011):
[1] Center for Research and Education for the Amazonian Rainforest (CREAR)
[2] The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory's website: http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/efml/
[3] Software for Meandering River evolution is public http://www.rvrmeander.org
[4] Dr. Abad is invited to give a keynote lecture at CSDMS: Impact of time and process scales
[5] Dr. Abad is faculty advisor for Plus3 Chile Program, Blog Chile2011
[6] Dr. Abad gave two keynote lectures at Peruvian Congresses, CONEIC 2011. CONIC 2011
[7] Dr. Abad was part of a team for a short course in RCEM, Tsinghua University, China:Modeling of River Migration at Multiple Scales
[8] Congratulations Ross!!!: Mr. Volkwein obtained the 1st place in the EWRI-ASCE undergraduate paper competition.

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