Ana Maria da Silva, Students

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Present Students

Ph.D.

  • Habib Ahmari, "Structure of river turbulence", 2004 -
  • David Dai, "Bank erosion in alluvial streams", 2002 -
  • Yibing Zhang, " Bed deformation in alluvial meanders", 2000 -

M.Sc.

  • Andrew Binns, "Time-evolution of bed topography in meandering streams", 2004 -
  • Jan Bielenberg, "Dune behaviour under unsteady-state flow", 2004 -

Former Students

Ph.D.

  • T. El-Tahawy, "Patterns of flow and bed deformation in meandering streams: an experimental study", completed 2004.

M.Sc.

  • Vernon Brown, "Modification of Yalin and da Silva's regime method and related computational procedures", completed 2005.
  • William Tape, "Experimental investigation of flow patterns in meandering channels of moderate sinuosity", completed 2001.
  • Dipanneeta Banerjee, "Initiation of bed deformation in meandering channels: a theoretical and numerical study", completed 2000.
  • Sarah Ackert, "A study of different methods for determination of regime channel geometry with aplication to streams in southwestern Ontario", completed 2000.
  • Yibing Zhang, "Bed form geometry and friction factor of flow over a bed covered by dunes", completed 1999. (Currently Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University).

M.Sc. Research Exchange Students

  • Jan Bielenberg, "Modification of Yalin and da Silva's regime method", completed 2003, Queen's University in cooperation with the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. (Currently M.Sc. candidate, Queen's University).
  • Arzu Kilic, "Quantitative prediction of meandering and braiding of a stream in cohesionless alluvium", completed 2003, Queen's University in cooperation with the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg
  • A. Akcakaya, "Bed topography in alluvial meandering streams with varying sinuosity", completed 2003, Queen's University in cooperation with the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg.

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