Dr Will Shepherd - Research Staff

Address: Room D106
Department of Civil & Structural Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Telephone: +44 (0)1142225732
Fax: +44 (0)1142225700
Room: D106

email : w.shepherd@sheffield.ac.uk

Research Group

Profile

Will became a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Pennine Water Group in 2003 following completion of his PhD entitled `Solute Mixing in CSO Structures´. Will’s research interests predominantly surround urban drainage and areas of expertise include:

• Monitoring and modelling of hydraulics and water quality in urban drainage systems and associated watercourses.
• Modelling of surface water flooding.
• Application of rainfall radar to urban drainage.
• Laboratory and field testing of CSOs and storage tanks.
• Solute tracing and analysis for determination of travel time and dispersion parameters.
• Application of GIS for visualisation and assessment of overland flow paths and flooding.
• Asset performance modelling.

Ongoing Research

Cloud to Coast is a NERC funded project seeking to develop a new integrated model to predict the exposure to and the health impact assessment of pathogen risks, as indexed by Faecal Indicator Organisms (FIOs), in near-shore coastal waters. Will is responsible for investigating and modelling FIO inputs from the urban system.


EU INTERREG IVB – FloodResilienCity. Involvement includes the development of methodologies to apply 1D-2D hydraulic models for the prediction of urban flood extents in two catchments, supervising a PDRA to run hydraulic models and process results, and liaison with Environment Agency to enable acceptance of enhanced flood outlines.


EU INTERREG IVB – SKINT. Use of LiDAR data and mapping within ArcMap to determine catchment areas draining to road gullies, researching road gully design, field study to assess gully performance and management options.

Selection of Completed Projects

Yorkshire Water Strategic Catchments. Long term monitoring of two sewerage catchments to assess the extent of monitoring required to gain improvements in system performance.

DTi SAM. This project developed a Risk-Based procedure and tools to support Integrated Urban Drainage Design and Management. Will carried out the case study to test tools developed by other partners in the project.

Defra Integrated Urban Drainage Pilots Making Space for Water. Involved with modelling and interpretation of results for River Aire, West Garforth studies.

Performance Of Storm Tanks And Potential For Improvements In Overall Storm Management. Phases 1 and 2 – included literature review, review of current practice, alternative technologies, field and laboratory tracer testing and quality sampling, development of modelling tool to predict pollutant retention performance. Funded by UKWIR.

Cost-S – Whole Life Costing of Sewerage Systems. Project involved development of tools to assess current and future performance of sewerage systems within a cost accounting framework. Personal involvement included development of asset performance models for the prediction of blockage and collapse events. Funded by EPSRC and UK water companies.

SQS. Modular Sewer Quality Simulation software allowing rapid assessment of development options. Funded by Yorkshire Water.

Publications

See http://www.shef.ac.uk/penninewatergroup/publications/w.shepherd.html