People
Professor Ian Guymer
Principal Investigator, formerly of the University of Warwick
Professor Guymer is a long time researcher of mixing processes in both urban and river contexts. At the time of this project, he worked at the University of Warwick, where he lead the Warwick Water research group.
Guymer is now a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Along with his research projects, he also teaches students about mixing processes.
Professor Guymer's contribution to this project focused on laboratory and field work. With this project he hoped to increase the practical understanding of mixing at the vegetation-water interface.
Professor Virginia Stovin
Co-investigator, The University of Sheffield
Professor Stovin's research focuses on the performance of urban drainage systems and SuDS, including green roofs and ponds. At the time of the project, she was a Reader in Urban Drainage, teaching students about hydrology, urban drainage, and SuDS design.
Professor Stovin's contribution to this project focused on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling. She believed this project would lead to innovative new methods for using CFD analysis to evaluate residence time distributions (RTDs) in vegetated ponds.
Dr James Hart
Research Fellow, formerly of the University of Warwick
Dr Hart was a recent graduate of the University of Warwick at the time of this project, where he completed his PhD on longitudinal dispersion in transitional pipe flow.
Dr Hart continued at the University of Warwick as a post-doctoral researcher for the project. He was responsible for the design and construction of the experimental facilities, carrying out lab and field work to measure vegetated flows, and the early analysis of associated results.
Dr Fred Sonnenwald
Research Associate, the University of Sheffield
Dr Sonnenwald, at the time of this project, had recently graduated with a PhD from the University of Sheffield. In his PhD, Sonnenwald developed a deconvolution methodology for identifying residence time distributions (RTDs) from experimental solute transport data.
Dr Sonnenwald has remained at the University of Sheffield to carry out post-doctoral research as part of the project. His work focused on analysing and understanding the laboratory and field results in order to develop practical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques to model vegetated ponds.
Patrick West
Research Student, formerly of the University of Warwick
At the time of this project, Patrick West was a PhD student at the University of Warwick. His research topic was the quantification of the exchange of mass between vegetation and mass at low flow velocities. He worked with Dr Hart to develop the new experimental facilities for the project.
Mahshid Golzar
Research Student, the University of Sheffield
At the time of this project, Mahshid Golzar was a PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Her research topic was on 2D CFD modelling of solute transport in cylinder arrays.
Nathan Wilson
Research Student, the University of Warwick
At the time of this project, Nathan Wilson was a new PhD student at the University of Warwick. While developing his final research topic, he performed project field work at the Longbridge Pond field site with Patrick West, Sergio Saul Solis and Ian Baylis. They collected solute transport data for CFD model validation.
Ian Baylis
Research Technician, the University of Warwick
Ian Baylis was the support technician for this project, providing expert work on the experimental facilities and assisting field work.