1^st Workshop on Mixing in Coastal Waters, Rivers & Atmosphere – Research and Practice

September 10^th, 2014, Ottawa, Canada (161 Loius Pasteur, CBY Conference Room A707)

Organized by: Research Group on Desalination and Industrial Outfalls (RDIO)

Program Registration Themes Contact

Numerical simulation of mixing of the outfall of a power plant

Formation (right) and transport (left) of Rossby waves

Turbulence and interaction of eddies

The main goal of the First workshop on Mixing in Coastal Waters, Rivers & Atmosphere is to provide an opportunity to exchange the developments on studies related to mixing and develop a framework to build new collaborative studies. The First Symposium on Mixing in water-Bodies and Atmosphere will cover research and papers related to river and large-scale lake and ocean-mixing phenomena, industrial outfalls, discharges into the atmosphere, and oil spills in water bodies.

Laboratory and field study of mixing processes

Program

Session I
9:30 am	Opening and Registration
9:45 – 10:00 am	Parameterization of subgrid-scale processes in the planetary boundary layer model developed at Environment Canada	Ayrton Zadra, Environment Canada (Montreal)
10:00 – 10:15 am	Numerical modeling of turbulent mixing processes in atmospheric boundary layer	Farshid Nazari, University of Ottawa ⁺
10:15 – 10:30 am	Wind-driven circulation & stratification in the Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean)	Yarzar Tun, University of Ottawa *
10:30 – 10:45 am	Analysis of Flow Instabilities in Great Lake Ontario	Xiaohui Yan, University of Ottawa *
10:45 – 11:00 am	Break
Session II
11:00 – 11:15 am	Physical and numerical modelling of hypersaline brines	Nils Goseberg, Franzius-Institute, Hanover, Germany
11:15 – 11:30 am	Projection of Significant Wave Height in Qatar Coast under RCPs Climate Change Scenarios	Hamidreza Shirkhani, University of Ottawa **
11:30 – 11:45 pm	Numerical Simulation of the Long-term Balance of Salinity in Persian Gulf	Xiaohui Yan, University of Ottawa **
11:45 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
Session III
1:00 – 1:15 pm	River modeling: some practical aspects	Ferdous Ahmed, Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA), Ottawa
1:15 – 1:30 pm	Numerical simulation of shear instabilities in shallow waters	Shooka Karimpour Ghannadi, McGill University⁺⁺
1:30 – 1:45 pm	Estimation of roughness coefficient and its impact on mixing processes	Saeideh Kheradmand, uOttawa &Lediane Marcon, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Brazil
1:45 – 2:00 pm	Numerical simulation of mixing in cross flows	Amir Gharavi, University of Ottawa **
2:00 – 2:30 pm	Break
Session IV
2:30 – 2:45 pm	Predicting the dispersion of outfall plumes in coastal waters	Samuel Li, Concordia University
2:45 – 3:00 pm	Numerical modeling of turbulent coastal flows	Safinaz El-Solh, W.F. Baird & Associates Coastal Engineering Ltd.
3:00 – 3:15 pm	Mixing study of the Ras-Lafan Desalination plant outfall in Qatar coastal waters, Part I: methodology	Vahid Pilechi, University of Ottawa ***
3:15 – 3:30 pm	Groundwater Mixing and Contaminant Studies Using Hydrogeochemical and Environmental Stable Isotope Techniques	Hossein Mohammadzadeh, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
3:30 – 4:00 pm	Break
Session V
4:00 – 4:15 pm	Cumulative effects of urbanization: consequences of stormwater engineering over a 42 year period in sub watersheds in the Great Lakes Basin	Mary Trudeau, Carleton University
4:15 – 4:30 pm	Numerical and experimental modeling of turbulent processes in a contracting flow	Derek Foran, uOttawa & Corinna Hohls, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
4:30 – 4:45 pm	Impact of roughness and bed slope on mixing of plumes: a review	Sahar Saeednooran, Carleton University
4:45 – 5:00 pm	CSCE - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering: information session / student benefits	Adrian Munteanu, CSCE VP Ontario Region & Kevin Alemany, CSCE National Capital Section
5:15 – 5:30 pm	Optimal urban water development with respect to environmental issues	Mostafa Behzadfar, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

* Joint research project with M.I.T. (Prof. John Marshall)

** Joint research project with Qatar University (Prof. Hazim Qiblawey)

*** Joint research project with Qatar University (Prof. Hazim Qiblawey) & UBC (Prof. Gergory Lawrence)

+ Joint research project with Environment Canada (Drs. Ayrton Zadra & Martin Charron)

++ Research project at McGill university under the supervision of Prof. Vincent Chu

Registration

For registration please send an email to bghodoos@uottawa.ca.

Themes

Mixing in water bodies

Atmospheric-discharges

Oil spills

Great Lakes

Arctic oceanography

Contact

For more information please Contact

Behnaz Ghodoosipour

bghodoos@uottawa.ca

6135625800 ext. 6159