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A/Prof. Peter Nielsen
Reader

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

Phone: +61-7-3365-3510
Email: p.nielsen@uq.edu.au
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CIVL 4110 - Coastal and Estuarine Processes - Brunswick Heads, August 2003

Click on the links below to download data spreadsheets.

Brunswick, August 2003.xls - tide gauge data and site 6 (Mullumbimby) data

EPA brunswick salinity data.xls - salinity and temp data from site 5 (Highway Bridge)


Research Interests:

Coastal and ocean engineering

Sediment transport

Boundary layers

Nearshore hydrodynamics

Coastal groundwater and salinity

Teaching

Fluid Mechanics 

Coastal and Estuarine Processes - Odd years only 

Selected and Recent Publications

Baldock, T.E., Tomkins, M.R. and Nielsen, P. Settling velocity of sand at high concentrations. Coastal Engineering. (submitted Jun 2003).

Nielsen P. and Teakle I., Turbulent diffusion of momentum and suspended particles: A finite-mixing-length-theory. Physics of Fluids. (submitted March 2003). Download (pdf file 297kb).

NIELSEN P., (1992) Coastal Bottom Boundary Layers and Sediment Transport. World Scientific, Singapore, 324p.

NIELSEN P. and CALLAGHAN D. P., (2002) Shear stress and sediment transport calculations for sheet flow under waves. Coastal Engineering. Vol. 47, No. 3, pp 347-354.

NIELSEN P., (2002) Shear stress and sediment transport calculations for swash zone modelling. Coastal Engineering. Vol. 45, No. 1, pp 53-60.

NIELSEN P. et. al., (2002) Vertical fluxes of sediment in oscillatory sheet flow. Coastal Engineering. Vol. 45, No. 1, pp 61-68.

NIELSEN P. et. al., (2001) Infiltration effects on sediment mobility under waves. Coastal Engineering. Vol. 42, No. 2, pp 105-114.

NIELSEN P. and PERROCHET P., (2000) Watertable dynamics under capillary fringes: experiments and modelling. Advances in Water Resources. Vol. 23, No. 1, pp 503-515.

NIELSEN P. et al., (1997) Groundwater waves in aquifers of intermediate depths. Advances in Water Resources. Vol. 20, No. 1, pp 37-43.

NIELSEN P., (1990) Tidal Dynamics of the Water Table in Beaches. Water Resources Research. Vol. 26, No. 9, pp 2127-2134.


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

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