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Dr. Tom Baldock
Senior Lecturer

Division of Civil Engineering
University of Queensland
St. Lucia, Queensland, 4072.

Phone: +61-7-3346-9432
Email: t.baldock@uq.edu.au
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Research Interests:

Coastal and ocean engineering

Extreme wave mechanics

Breaking waves

Long wave forcing

Surf zone and swash zone hydrodynamics

Ground water flow in beaches

Sediment transport processes

Beach morphology

Teaching

Fluid Mechanics

Hydraulic Engineering 

Recent Publications

Refereed Journals

Hughes, M.G. and Baldock, T.E., (2004). Eulerian flow velocities in the swash zone: Field data and model predictions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C008009.

Baldock, T. E., Tomkins, M. R., Nielsen, P., Hughes, M. G., 2004. Settling velocity of sediments at high concentrations. Coastal Engineering, 51, 91-100.

Baldock, T. E., O’ Hare, T. J., and Huntley, D. A., 2004. Long wave forcing on a barred beach. J. Fluid Mechanics, 503, 321-341. 

Elfrink, B. and Baldock, T. E., 2002. Hydrodynamics and sediment transport in the swash zone: A review and perspectives.  Coastal Engineering, 45, 149-167.

Baldock, T. E and Huntley, D. A., 2002. Long wave forcing by the breaking of random gravity waves on a beach.  Proc. Roy. Soc., Lond., Ser A. 458, 2177-2201.

Baldock. T. E., Baird, A. J, Horn, D. P. and Mason, T. E., 2001. Measurements and modelling of swash induced pressure gradients in the surface layers of a sand beach.  J. Geophys. Research (Oceans), 106, (C2), 2653-2666.

Baldock. T. E., Huntley, D. A., Bird, P. A. D., O'Hare, T. J. and Bullock, G. N., 2000. Breakpoint generated surf beat induced by bichromatic wave groups. Coastal Engineering, 39,213-242.

Baldock, T.E., Swan, C. and Taylor, P.H., 1996. A laboratory study of non-linear surface waves on water. Phil. Trans. Royal Society, London, A. 354, 1-28

Conference Proceedings

Baldock, T. E., Day, K, Hughes, M. G., and Weir, F., 2004. Swash overtopping and sediment transport – application to bermed beaches and lagoon entrances. Proc. 8th Nat. Conf. Hyd. Water Engng., Australia.

Hughes, M. G., and Baldock, T. E., 2004. Measured and modeled flow velocities in the swash zone of a steep beach: implications for sediment transport modelling. Proc. 8th Nat. Conf. Hyd. Water Engng., Australia.

Weir, F. M, Hughes, M. G., and Baldock, T. E., 2004. A methodology for predicting berm crest elevation fronting coastal lagoons. To appear in Proc. 8th Nat. Conf. Hyd. Water Engng.,  Australia.  

T. E. Baldock, D. A. Huntley, S. T. H. Chan, P. A. D. Bird. 2002. Surf beat kinematics induced by random waves. Proc. 28th Intl. Conf. on Coastal Eng. ASCE. Cardiff, Wales.

Baldock. T. E., Huntley, D. A., Bird, P. A. D., O'Hare, T. and Bullock, G. N., 2000. Surf beat generation by a time-varying breakpoint. Proc. 27th ICCE, Sydney, 1398-1411.

Van Wellen, E., Baldock, T. E., Chadwick, A. J. and Simmonds, D., 2000. STRAND – a model for longshore sediment transport in the swash zone.  Proc. 27th ICCE, Sydney, June 2000, 3139-3150.

O' Hare, T., Baldock. T. E., Huntley, D. A., Bird, P. A. D. and Bullock, G. N.,2000. Free long wave-short wave interaction in a surf zone.

T. E. Baldock, D. A. Huntley, S. T. H. Chan, P. A. D. Bird.  To appear in Proc. 28th ICCE, Cardiff, July 2002.


c/- Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Queensland
St. Lucia, Queensland 4072 Australia

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