John A. Hoopes Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Awards & Honors Summary

Contact Information

1261B Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/262-2977 E-mail: hoopes@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• Institute for Environmental Studies
• Limnology and Marine Science
• Water Resources Engineering Program

Education

• BS, University of California, Berkeley
• MS, University of California, Berkeley
• PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fields of Interest

• fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering
• modeling
• measurement and design of fluid flows
• sedimentation
• dissolved and particulate material
• transport and mixing
• groundwater
• turbulence

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• American Geophysical Union
• International Association of Great Lakes
• Research J. Waldo Smith Hydraulic Research Fellowship-ASCE
• NATO Senior Science Fellowship-England
• Walter L. Huber Research Prize - ASCE
• Karl Emil Hilgard Prize - ASCE
• Polygon Outstanding Instructor - UW - Madison College of Engineering

Summary

Research in fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering focuses on understanding fluid processes (e.g., turbulent motion and dynamics, multiphase flow) and applying that knowledge to the measurement, design and control of flows in natural and constructed systems. Current examples include:

1. air sparging for in-situ remediation of contaminated groundwater (namely, lab measurements and theoretical modeling of water and napl displacement by air in sand media);

2. entrainment of fine-grained, cohesive and non-cohesive sediment by wind, seiche, and storm generated flows in river/lake inlet(namely, near bottom, field measurements of mean and turbulent motions and sediment concentrations to determine rates of and conditions for bed entrainment and use in developing and testing fluid/bed interaction models);

3. design of submerged vanes for control of stream geometry (namely, computational fluid dynamic modeling of flow and sediment movement by and lab measurements of vanes on alignment, bed/bank morphology, and flow field in straight and meandering channels).

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