Workshops
Mid-project workshop
A mid-project workshop was held on Wednesday 18 March 2015 at the University of Warwick.
There were over 40 attendees, including our guest presenters Dr Jean Lacoursière, Dr Mick Whelan, Dr James Shucksmith, Dr Scott Arthur and Dr Ramesh Ponnambalam. Unfortunately, Dr Andrea Bottacin-Busolin was unable to attend.
View the workshop schedule (PDF, 613KB).
Presentations
Residence Times in Vegetated Stormwater Ponds
Presented by Professor Ian Guymer, University of Warwick and Dr Virginia Stovin, the University of Sheffield. This presentation is a project overview.
View presentation (PDF, 652KB).
Quantifying solute mixing - laboratory development using artificial vegetation
Presented by Patrick West, University of Warwick.
View presentation (PDF, 721KB).
Feasibility of the porous zone approach to modelling vegetation in CFD
Presented by Dr Fred Sonnenwald, the University of Sheffield.
View presentation (PDF, 765KB).
Real vegetation - laboratory and field studies
Presented by Dr James Hart, University of Warwick.
View presentation (PDF, 822KB).
Measuring residence time distributions in a vegetated pond
Presented by Dr Jean Lacoursière, Kristanstad University, Sweden.
View presentation (PDF, 1.26MB).
Evaluating the potential of constructed wetland features for attenuating pesticide transfers from agricultural land
Presented by Dr Mick Whelan, University of Leicester.
View presentation (PDF, 1.24MB).
Vegetation enhanced mixing in open channel flows
Presented by Dr James Shucksmith, the University of Sheffield.
View presentation (PDF, 958KB).
Monitoring SuDS pond sediment transport using the lanthanide group of elements
Presented by Dr Scott Arthur, Heriot-Watt University.
View presentation (PDF, 2.41MB).
Final workshop
An end of project workshop was held on 6 July 2016 to present research findings at the University of Warwick.
The workshop was well attended and our guest presenters, Matthew O'Hare, Anders Wörman, Thorsten Stoesser, Andy Bailey, and Ellen Bedford stimulated interesting discussion. Unfortunately David Naismith was unable to present as planned.
View the workshop schedule (PDF, 245KB).
Presentations
Residence Times in Vegetated Stormwater Ponds
Presented by Professor Ian Guymer, University of Warwick. This presentation is a brief project outline.
View presentation (PDF, 256KB).
Pond Plants: assemblages, traits and attributes
Presented by Matthew O'Hare, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
View presentation (PDF, 742KB).
Remediation measures of agricultural streams
Presented by Anders Wörman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
View presentation (PDF, 1.0MB)
Computational modelling of vegetated flows: past, present, future
Presented by Thorsten Stoesser, Cardiff University.
View presentation (PDF, 967KB).
Supplementary video files: Turbulent structures around stems separated by 10D (AVI, 6.62MB), Turbulent structures around stems separated by 2.5D (AVI, 25.0MB).
Overview of laboratory studies
Presented by Dr James Hart, University of Warwick.
View presentation (PDF, 419KB).
Benefits and operation of stormwater ponds for highway drainage
Presented by Andy Bailey and Ellen Bedford, Highways England.
View presentation (PDF, 182KB).
Quantifying pollution mixing across low velocity real emergent vegetation patches and borders
Presented by Patrick West, University of Warwick.
View presentation (PDF, 927KB).
Longitudinal and transverse mixing due to vegetation – representing observed data in CFD
Presented by Dr Fred Sonnenwald, the University of Sheffield.
View presentation (PDF, 274KB).
Field study – Longbridge
Presented by Nathan Wilson, University of Warwick.
View presentation (PDF, 904KB).
CFD models of real pond scenarios
Presented by Virginia Stovin, the University of Sheffield. This presentation includes project next steps.
View presentation (PDF, 1.03MB).
Supplementary video files: Animation of convergence fluctuation in steady-state vegetated pond model (MP4, 3.73MB).
Posters
Effect of basin shape and vegetation patterns on wetland performance
Andrea Bottacin-Busolin, Nima Sabokrouhiyeh, and Andrea Marion
View poster (PDF, 2.68MB).
Modelling vegetated flow field using Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM)
Mahshid Golzar and Virginia Stovin
View poster (PDF, 691KB).