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Do hydrological models cope with complex Australian catchments?

Climate change and rapid land use change has forced a rethink on hydrological models. Non-stationarity (where trends in time-series are non-linear or non-uniform) is now the norm, a more...

Supervisor(s): Vervoort, Willem (Associate Professor), Bishop, Thomas (Associate Professor), Van Ogtrop, Floris (Dr)

Inverse Methods for Characterising Hydraulic Properties of Soils Under Unsaturated Conditions

New indirect methods for estimating material properties of partially saturated soils are developed based on infiltration tests and inversion of multi-phase hydro-mechanical equation more...

Supervisor(s): El-Zein, Abbas (Professor)

ASSESSING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF GLOBAL TOURISM FROM SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

This project will employ multi-region input-output analysis (Isard 1951; Leontief 1953) and a comprehensive global database (Lenzen et al. 2012a; Lenzen et al. 2013; Lenzen et al. 2 more...

Supervisor(s): Malik, Arunima (Dr), Lenzen, Manfred (Professor)

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of gas-liquid two phase flow in bubble columns, photo-reactors and membrane bioreactors

The project aims to extend existing modelling techniques that have been applied to bubble column bioreactors used for fermentation processes to the study of photo-bioreactors used i more...

Supervisor(s): Fletcher, David (Professor), Kavanagh, John (Dr)

Experimental studies on nonlinear wave hydrodynamics

The project aims at finding new characteristic propagation properties of uni-directional and directional nonlinear waves. more...

Supervisor(s): Chabchoub, Amin (Associate Professor)

Modelling of extreme ocean waves

The project aims at modelling and predicting of extreme waves in the ocean. more...

Supervisor(s): Chabchoub, Amin (Associate Professor)

strategic power system operation and planning to secure energy sustainability

The HDR (higher degree research) student applicants should have background in one of the following areas: 1) power system optimisation and control; 2) electricity market modelling a more...

Supervisor(s): Qiu, Jeremy (Dr)

Miscellaneous topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

The project aims at improving modelling and understanding of global ocean processes that include currents, turbulence and mixing. more...

Supervisor(s): Chabchoub, Amin (Associate Professor)

Tectonic-mantle-climate interactions in the Southern Ocean

The Cenozoic (past 65 million years) has undergone general cooling from a warm “Greenhouse World” climate to an “Icehouse World” climate, characterised by th more...

Supervisor(s): Seton, Maria (Dr)

REBOUND EFFECTS AND ADDITIONALITY IN CARBON FOOTPRINTS OF GLOBAL TOURISM

This project will employ multi-region input-output analysis (Isard 1951; Leontief 1953) and a comprehensive global database (Lenzen et al. 2012; Lenzen et al. 2013; Lenzen et al. 20 more...

Supervisor(s): Lenzen, Manfred (Professor), Malik, Arunima (Dr)