Meet the Committee

11th International Conference on
Pressure Surges
24-25 October, 2012
Lisbon, Portugal
Meet the Committee
Anton Bergant
Head of Research and Development Department
Antonio Patricio de Sousa Betamio de Almeida
Emeritus Professor, Full Professor (Ret.)
Litostroj Power, d.o.o.
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),
Technical University of Lisbon (UTL)
Dr. Anton Bergant graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia on June 25, 1981. The topic of
his BSc Thesis was: Treatise of hydraulic transient phenomena
in hydroelectric power plants with Francis turbines. On April 18,
1985 he completed his MSc studies in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Ljubljana. The topic of his MSc Thesis was:
Unsteadiness and vibrations in hydraulic systems. On December
9, 1985 he successfully passed an exam at the State Committee for
Industry and Civil Engineering and became Professional Engineer. He
successfully defended his Doctoral Thesis at the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering, University of Ljubljana on May 6, 1993. The topic of his
thesis was: Transient cavitating flow in piping systems. From January
to May 1987 he was visiting research fellow at the University of
Leeds, United Kingdom specializing numerical modelling of hydraulic
transients in piping systems. From April to June 1995 and from
February to April 1997 he was postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Adelaide, Australia conducting research on transient cavitating flow in
pipelines. On May 28, 2009 he was appointed as Associate Professor
for Fluid Mechanics at the University of Ljubljana. On March 30, 2010
he was elected as Associate Member at the Slovenian Academy of
Engineering.
He has been employed with Litostroj Industries since 1980, except
from October 1989 to January 1993 when he was employed as
research officer with the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is
currently employed full-time with company Litostroj Power d.o.o.,
Ljubljana and part-time with Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
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present work/interests):
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Civil Engineer (1971) and PhD in Civil Engineering (1981).
Full Professor at IST (1989),now retired (2008).
Emeritus professor at UTL (2009).
Consultant engineer and member of several professional associations.
Senior researcher at Center of Hydrosystems Studies (IST/UTL)
and former (1981-1996) director.
Author or co-author of more than 200 scientific and technical publications including books, chapters of books, papers in
conferences and in journals.
Referee of international journals.
Elected member of the Portuguese National Academy of
Engineering (1999).
Main areas of interest: hydraulic transients, hydropower, safety
and risk management in engineering and philosophy of science.
Martin Hamilton
Senior Consultant
Helena Margarida Ramos
Associate Professor with Aggregation
Spectrum Fluid Dynamics
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
Pertinent background information (qualifications, brief career history,
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BA MA MEng
After completing a Masters degree in Manufacturing Engineering at Cambridge University UK, Martin began his engineering career at ICI on Teesside UK working on Pressure Surge and Vibration issues around the company. Before joining Spectrum as a senior
consultant specialising in the pressure surge field, Martin ran his own business consulting for process engineering clients whilst bringing up a young family. At Spectrum, Martin has broadened his areas of expertise, working additionally on pulsation, noise
and process pipework fatigue issues.
Dídia Isabel Cameira Covas
Associate Professor
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
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Works at IST since 1996.
Graduated in Civil Engineering at IST, in 1995, completed Master Course in Hydraulics in 1998 at IST and obtained PhD degree in
Civil Engineering at Imperial College London, in 2003.
Received three scientific awards, two of which for MSc and PhD
theses.
Has 200 publications and reports: 1 national hand-book on infrastructure asset management, 35 papers in international/national
journals, 120 papers in national/international conferences and 30
technical reports.
Participated in 7 EU projects and 10 national research projects.
Has 5 PhD students and has supervised 12 MSc students.
Referee of 7 international journals of ASCE, IAHR and IWA.
Main research areas: hydraulic transients, leakage control and
infrastructure asset management.
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Works at IST since 1982.
Graduated in Civil Engineering at IST, in 1983, completed Master Course in Hydraulics in 1986 at IST and obtained PhD degree in Civil Engineering at IST, in 1995.
Has more than 300 publications and reports.
Participated in 7 EU projects and 2 intercontinental research projects.
Has 9 PhD students and has supervised 22 MSc students.
Referee of 7 international journals of ASCE, IAHR and IWA.
Main research areas: hydropower and pumping systems,
hydraulic transients, leakage control, sustainable energy
solutions, flood events.
I.W.M. (Ivo) Pothof
Specialist Industrial Hydrodynamics
R&D leader Renewable Energy from Water and Subsoil
Deltares, The Netherlands
Mr. Ivo Pothof (PhD, MSc, 1972) is an industrial hydrodynamics
specialist at Deltares. Mr. Pothof has joined Delft Hydraulics (currently
Deltares) in 1997. He is specialized in fluid transients, optimal control
of pipeline systems and air-water pipe flows. He has worked on innovative solutions for the water industry in the Netherlands and abroad, like
the application of booster pumping stations in the urban drainage system of Amsterdam. He has experience with development of numerical
algorithms for fluid transients (WANDA software), commissioning fire
fighting systems, field measurements and troubleshooting at chemical
plants. He has written guidelines on fluid transients in Dutch standard
NEN 3650 – 2006: Requirements for pipeline systems. Mr. Pothof is a
member of the Technical Committee of the Pressure Surges Conference Series and affiliated with Delft University of Technology, department of Sanitary Engineering. He has training experience as a lecturer
at Deltares Academy (Hydrodynamics in Pipeline Systems) and as a
guest lecturer at Delft University of Technology and UNESCO-IHE.
He has published in various peer-reviewed journals and numerous
conference proceedings. Mr. Pothof co-ordinates the strategic R&D of
Deltares on Renewable Energy and Energy-efficiency. He graduated
in 1995 in Systems and Control Theory at the University of Twente,
faculty Applied Mathematics. He was awarded the KIVI-NIRIA price
on Systems and Control theory with his graduation thesis on optimal
placement of pressure transducers in a drinking water network.
David C. Wiggert
Emeritus Professor
Mrs Sarah Jones
Team Leader, Surge Analysis
Michigan State University
Mott MacDonald Ltd
Professor emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan
State University (1970 – 2002). Ph.D., University of Michigan (1967).
Pertinent background information (qualifications, brief career history,
present work/interests):
Over thirty years of research in fluid transients, including numerical
modelling, fluid-structure interaction, two-phase and two-component
unsteady flows, and unsteady open-channel flows. Involvement in
continuing education related to water-hammer topics for the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Has worked in the field of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics for over
25 years with particular emphasis on consultancy, simulation and
research and development. Has gained a wide experience of many
areas of fluid flow, particularly steady state and transient flow in
piping systems, flow distribution and the design of pumping station
intakes. This has been gained through both mathematical and physical
modelling. Experience includes software development and use of
Flowmaster and WANDA transient network analysis software.
Dr Stephen James Murray
Lead Flow Assurance Engineer, Angola GPO
BP Exploration & Production
Alexander (“Sandy”) Anderson
Director of Teaching
Prior to joining BP, Steve spent over 20 years at WS Atkins - most of
that time as head of Process Hydraulics and the company Technical
Authority on Hydraulics & Pipeline Transients.
School of Mechanical & Systems Engineering, Newcastle
University, UK
At BP, as well as acting as lead engineer for flow assurance in the
subsea system of an Angolan project, Steve also has a technical
advisory role on pressure surge issues.
Arris S Tijsseling
Assistant Professor
Eindhoven University of Technology
Arris Tijsseling received an MSc in Applied Mathematics (1986) and
a PhD in Civil Engineering (1993) from Delft University of Technology
in The Netherlands. He worked on fluid-structure interaction in pipe
systems from 1986 to 1993 at Delft Hydraulics and Delft University,
and from 1993 to 1999 at the University of Dundee in Scotland.
Since 1999 Tijsseling has been an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven
University of Technology. His research interests include water
hammer, column separation, fluid-structure interaction and the history
of science.
Originally worked for engineering consultants, principally in the field
of power generation with much of that in hydropower and pumped
storage. For many years have been teaching mechanical engineering
at university (mainly thermofluids and turbomachines, but also in
design and manufacturing, engineering management and renewable
energy) with (now very occasional) consultancy in fluids transients
issues. Current research interests embrace topics such as heuristic
optimisation and statistical Design of Experiments applied to design as
well as the thermodynamics of power and other plant, but are mainly
focussed still on 1D or lumped-system fluid transients, principally
in liquid pipe systems (but including free-surface/pressurised flow
and column separation), surge alleviation devices and self-excited
oscillations.
Peter Glover
Director
Professor Stephen B M Beck
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Director of Learning and Teaching - Engineering
Peter Glover Consulting Ltd
The University of Sheffield
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Eur Ing Pr Eng C.Eng MIMechE PhD MSc
Peter Glover has been involved in pressure transient analyses
in the water industry for over 25 years. He leads and supervises
pressure surge expertise for a number of leading international
consultancies including BHR, Halcrow and MottMacDonald. His
company specialises in pressure surge analyses, training, and
supervision, and investigations.
His drive is to improve the general understanding of transient
phenomenon among practitioners in the industry, and so to
improve the quality of analysis, and designed solutions.
Edmundo Koelle
Consulting Engineer
Koelle Engineering Ltd.
Retired full professor of hydraulic machinery of POLITECHNIC
SCHOOL - S.PAULO UNIVERSITY since 1993, and professor of
HYDRAULICS of CAMPINAS UNIVERSITY – BRASIL.
Professor Stephen Beck is a graduate of Bath University where he
studied Mechanical Engineering. After graduation he was offered a
post at Fermilab in Chicago where he developed software to control
anti-protons.
He was awarded his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield. The topic was the stability of ventilation systems in
nuclear power stations which involved fluid mechanics, waves in pipes
and power fluidics.
After several postdoctoral jobs (on fluidics, modelling waves in oil
drillstrings and high temperature heat exchangers) he was offered a
lectureship in thermodynamics at the department. He became a senior
lecturer in 2002. In 2012 he was promoted to a personal chair.
Professor Beck has been working on flow measurement, leak detection, leaks from pipes, leaky gaskets (spot the theme), heat transfer
from radiators and renewable energy. His interest in energy and teaching have combined to make him one of the main investigators on the
(£9.3M) Doctoral Training Centre on energy and the environment.
He is interested in quality enhancement of teaching and has served
as Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Director of Learning and
Teaching Development for the Faculty of Engineering. He is currently
Faculty Director of Learning and Teaching, coordinating learning
throughout the Engineering Faculty.
For reasons unknown to even himself, he is also interested in various
forms of committee work both within the University and for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, where he is on the Academic Assessment Committee and the Academic Standards Committee, accrediting
other Mechanical Engineering departments.
Invited professor of the Polytechnic University of Valencia – Spain,
since 2004, and “in company” professor to teach intensive courses on
Hydraulic Transients and Cavitation for engineers working in Water an
Petrochemical Companies in Brasil and South America.
Working as consulting engineer for many industries and government
agencies (see clients list on site: www.koelle.com.br) to give advice for
new projects and solve problems related do Transients and Cavitation.
Andreas Dudlik
Scientific employee
Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Oberhausen, Germany
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Study of chemical engineering, Dortmund (-1990)
Doctoral thesis on pressure surges in pipes(-1999)
Present work is consulting on pressure surges: calculation,
measurements, prevention methods (- up to now)
Theoretical and practical experience in single and multiphase
flow in chemical reactors and pipes
Samuel Martin
Emeritus Professor
Professor A. R. David Thorley
Retired; Emeritus Professor of Fluid Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
City University, London
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PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Guest Professor. University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Guest Professor. Technical University of Munich, Germany
ASME Freeman Scholar
Interest in waterhammer, hydroelectric transients, condensationinduced waterhammer, entrapped air
Attended previous ten BHR Group Pressure Surge Conferences
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BSc, MPhil, PhD, CEng, FIMechE, FICE
Automotive industry, Electric Power Generation and Academia,
including Engineering Research and Consultancy, retiring as
Dean of Engineering from City University in 2001
No longer formally working, spent 10 years sailing in distant
waters each winter, latest project is farming in Somerset
Professor Alan Vardy
Professor Bryan Karney
Associate Dean, Cross-Disciplinary Programs, and Chair,
Division of Environmental Engineering & Energy Systems
University of Dundee, UK
University of Toronto
Qualifications:
DSc, DEng, PhD, BSc
Since 2006, Professor Bryan Karney has served as Chair, Division of
Environmental Engineering and Energy Systems. In 2009, Professor
Karney became Associate Dean, Cross-Disciplinary Programs,
providing leadership to the newly formed Cross-Disciplinary Programs
Office. He is a professor in the Environmental Section of the
Department of Civil Engineering at U of T.
Professional Memberships:
FREng, FRSE, FICE, F.ASCE
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40+ years of academic research and industrial consultancy
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Author of specialist commercial software ThermoTun
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20+ years = largely self-employed
Present work(interests):
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Safe, automatic control of operational road tunnels
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Aerodynamic design of high speed railway tunnels
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Beneficial uses of pressure surge in long pipelines
Present research(interests):
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Wavefront evolution in long ducts/tunnels
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Wave/boundary-layer interaction
Professor Karney’s research interests reside in the design, analysis,
operation and optimization of various water resource and energy
systems. He specializes in the design and analysis of water distribution
systems, with interests in infrastructure renewal, transient and water
hammer analysis and system optimization. Professor Karney also
studies the implication of climate change to system design and
performance, and particularly energy use.
Along with his passion for research, Professor Karney has a passion
for teaching. Student support earned him a Faculty Teaching Award in
2001-2002, the highest teaching honour awarded by the Faculty. He
was also one of 10 lecturers selected for Television Ontario’s (TVO)
Best Lecturer Competition in 2007—an annual contest that shines the
spotlight on Ontario’s most engaging and intellectually stimulating postsecondary lecturers. In 2009 he received the Northrop Frye award for
excellence in combining teaching and research.
Professor Bruno Brunone
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
Dr Fred Locher
Bechtel Corporation, USA
Dr Stephen Hunt
Hydraulic Analysis Ltd., UK
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Stephen graduated from Leeds University in 1979 with a 1st
Class Honours Degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering and commenced work with Hydraulic Analysis
Limited.
He is currently responsible for project control, training and technical supervision of all engineering staff and advising on software
development for water and sewage projects.
Director in charge of co-ordination of the company’s Quality
Management System to ISO 9001.
Stephen has personally undertaken detailed investigations of
unsteady flow in more than nine hundred schemes conveying raw
water, treated water, sewage, oil and gas. He has identified and
resolved numerous hydraulic problems using a combination of
practical experience and application of theoretical knowledge.
He has co-ordinated the development of all in-house open
channel (free surface) flow programs, incorporating facilities for
the study of unsteady flow and the calculation of steady flow
profiles for sewers/culverts/channels and ancillary structures.
Sponsored by
Professor Angus Simpson
University of Adelaide, Australia
Professor Mohamed Ghidaoui
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(HKUST), Hong Kong, China
Professor Ben Wylie
University of Michigan, USA
Organised by
www.bhrgroup.com