Dr Georges Kesserwani
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering
+44 114 222 5746
Full contact details
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Room F117, Broad Lane Building
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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My research bridges advances in numerical and data analysis techniques with the aim of transforming flood mapping and forecasting to become more automated and flexible for end use, so that we can better mitigate against hazardous events.
Dr Georges Kesserwani
Dr Georges Kesserwani completed his PhD in fluid mechanics at the University of Strasbourg (2005-2008). He went on to a three-year research post in flood modelling at Newcastle University (2008–2011), and joined the Department in 2011.
He is presently an EPSRC Fellow holding a prestigious Early Career Fellowship (2018-2022) aiming to deliver the thinking and innovation needed to transform flood forecasting to becoming more automatic and holistic.
Research Themes
- Research interests
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Georges’ research provides advanced modelling solutions to various scales of flood risk to forecast environmental change.
His mathematical and numerical modelling approaches aim to contribute to better design of resilient infrastructure and to improve our living with flooding.
His work crosses the boundaries of many disciplines and activities, with the interface between numerical analysis and hydraulic engineering, and including advances in computational and experimental tools.
He has developed a variety of advanced computer models to simulate water and floodplain flows benefiting from collaborations with:
- mathematicians to materialise fundamental concepts in water engineering (e.g. Gerhard et al. 2015, Caviedes-Voullième & Kesserwani 2015),
- experimental researchers to validate these models against experimental data (e.g. Kesserwani et 2010, Rubinato et al. 2017), and
- engineers considering real-scale applications (e.g. Kesserwani & Wang 2014).
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Stochastic Galerkin Finite Volume Shallow Flow Model: Well-Balanced Treatment over Uncertain Topography. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 146(3). View this article in WRRO
- Discontinuous Galerkin formulation for 2D hydrodynamic modelling: trade-offs between theoretical complexity and practical convenience. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 342, 710-741. View this article in WRRO
- On the Characteristics of Velocities Fields in the Vicinity of Manhole Inlet Grates During Flood Events. Water Resources Research, 54(9), 6408-6422. View this article in WRRO
- A discontinuous Galerkin approach for conservative modelling of fully nonlinear and weakly dispersive wave transformations. Ocean Modelling, 125, 61-79. View this article in WRRO
- Experimental calibration and validation of sewer/surface flow exchange equations in steady and unsteady flow conditions. Journal of Hydrology, 552, 421-432. View this article in WRRO
- Multiwavelet-based grid adaptation with discontinuous Galerkin schemes for shallow water equations. Journal of Computational Physics, 301, 265-288. View this article in WRRO
- Discontinuous Galerkin flood model formulation: Luxury or necessity?. Water Resources Research, 50(8), 6522-6541. View this article in WRRO
- Locally limited and fully conserved RKDG2 shallow water solutions with wetting and drying. Journal of Scientific Computing, 50(1), 120-144. View this article in WRRO
- A conservative high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for the shallow water equations with arbitrary topography. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 86(1), 47-69.
- New approach for predicting flow bifurcation at right-angled open-channel junction. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 136(9), 662-668.
- An improvement of classical slope limiters for high-order discontinuous Galerkin method. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 59(4), 423-442.
- Simulation of subcritical flow at open-channel junction. Advances in Water Resources, 31(2), 287-297.
- Stochastic Galerkin Finite Volume Shallow Flow Model: Well-Balanced Treatment over Uncertain Topography. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 146(3). View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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SuDS (Sustainable Drainage Systems) and Urban Drainage
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Catchments and River Engineering
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
- Member of the Carnegie Trust Research assessors
- Visiting DAAD Fellow to RWTH Aachen (2013-14)
- Guest editor of a Special Issue in Applied Mathematical Modelling journal (2016)
- Convened ‘Advances in Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamics’ workshop (2015)
- Published 52 refereed publications, with more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers
- Invited speaker to many UK and EU institutions, scientific meetings and seminars
- Contribution to a public-domain spreadsheet tool for flood risk assessment
- Constantly invited to annually review journal paper and grant application submissions
- External PhD examiner for University of Zaragoza (2015), University of Sussex (2017) and University of L’Aquila (2018)
- Potential PhD offerings
Unfortunately I am not seeking any PhD Students at this time, however please contact me if you are interested in doing a project in my research area.