Hubert Chanson | |
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 Prof. Hubert Chanson in 2021 | |
| Born | (1961-11-01)1 November 1961 (age 64) |
| Alma mater | École nationale supérieure de l'énergie, l'eau et l'environnement,Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires,University of Canterbury |
| Known for | Hydraulic engineering;Fluid dynamics;Hydrodynamics |
| Relatives | Charles ChansonNicole Chanson |
| Awards | 13thIAHRArthur Ippen Award, 2004ASCE-EWRI award for best practice paper inJournal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 2018 Baker Medal from theInstitution of Civil Engineers, UK |
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| Institutions | University of Queensland |
| Doctoral advisor | Ian R. Wood |
Hubert Chanson (born 1 November 1961) is a professional engineer and academic inhydraulic engineering and environmentalfluid mechanics. Since 1990 he has worked at theUniversity of Queensland.
Chanson completed aPhD at theUniversity of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1988.[1]
Chanson is Professor of Civil Engineering at theUniversity of Queensland, where he has been since 1990, having previously enjoyed an industrial career for six years. His main field of expertise isenvironmental fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering, both in terms of theoretical fundamentals, physical and numerical modelling. He leads a group of five to ten researchers, largely targeting flows aroundhydraulic structures, two-phase (gas-liquid and solid-liquid) free-surface flows,turbulence in steady and unsteady open channel flows, using computation, lab-scale experiments, field work and analysis. He serves on the editorial boards ofInternational Journal of Multiphase Flow,Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, andEnvironmental Fluid Mechanics, the latter of which he is currently a senior editor.
Chanson authored several books among which:Hydraulic Design of Stepped Cascades, Channels, Weirs and Spillways (Pergamon, 1995),Air Bubble Entrainment in Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows (Academic Press, 1997),The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction (Edward Arnold/Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999 & 2004),The Hydraulics of Stepped Chutes and Spillways (Balkema, 2001),Environmental Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows (Elsevier, 2004),Tidal Bores, Aegir, Eagre, Mascaret, Pororoca: Theory and Observations (World Scientific 2011) andApplied Hydrodynamics: An Introduction (CRC Press 2014). He co-authored the booksFish Swimming in Turbulent Waters (CRC Press, 2021) andFluid Mechanics for Ecologists (IPC Press, 2002), and he edited several other books (Balkema 2004, IEaust 2004, The University of Queensland 2006, 2008, 2014, 2020). The textbookThe Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction has been translated into Chinese (Hydrology Bureau of Yellow River Conservancy Committee) and Spanish (McGraw Hill Interamericana) and the second edition appeared in 2004. He has further published over 1,200peer-reviewed papers and his work was cited over 7,500 times (WoS) to 25,000 times.[2] Hish-index is 46, 51 and 79 inWeb of Science,Scopus andGoogle Scholar respectively (in January 2022).
He witnessed the2010–11 Queensland floods and he documented thoroughly some observations in Central, Southern and South-East Queensland.[3][4][5]
TheInternational Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) presented Chanson with the 13thArthur Ippen Award for outstanding achievements in hydraulic engineering. TheAmerican Society of Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute (ASCE-EWRI) presented him with the award for the best practice paper in theASCEJournal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering ("Energy Dissipation and Air Entrainment in Stepped Storm Waterway", Chanson and Toombes 2002), the 2018 Honorable Mention Paper Award for "Minimum Specific Energy and Transcritical Flow in Unsteady Open-Channel Flow" by Castro-Orgaz and Chanson (2016) in theASCEJournal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering and both 2020 and 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award of theJournal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.The Institution of Civil Engineers, UK presented him the 2018 Baker Medal.In 1999 he was awarded a Doctor of Engineering from theUniversity of Queensland for his outstanding research achievements in gas-liquid bubbly flows.[6] In 2018, he was inducted a Fellow of theAustralasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Hubert Chanson is ranked among the 150 most cited researchers in civil engineering in Shanghai's Global Ranking of Academics.[7]
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