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Dr
Viktor Popov
Environmental
Fluid Mechanics Division
Wessex
Institute of Technology
Ashurst
Lodge
Southampton
SO40
7AA
UK
Tel.
+44 (0)23 80293223
Fax.
+44 (0)23 80292853
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/research/divisions/envfluiddiv.htm
viktor@wessex.ac.uk
Wessex
Institute of Technology, Southampton, Great Britain
The
Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) is an internationally recognised
organisation dedicated to advanced research and training on computational
solution of engineering problems, including the supervision of Ph.D. theses and
organisation of international courses and conferences. One of the
well-recognized numerical techniques in computational mechanics, Boundary
Element Method (BEM), has been initiated and is constantly developed at WIT.
The
main objective of the institute is to provide a link between research engineers
and scientists and practising engineers in industry. There are three distinct
areas of interest within the Institute:
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Environmental Fluid Mechanics
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Industrial Research
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Damage Mechanics
The
research in the Institute related to the Environmental Modelling includes:
Environmental risk assessment, Transport of contaminants in the environment,
Surface and ground water pollution, Remediation studies, Air pollution, Waste
management, etc.
The
Institute organizes approximately ten conferences and several courses related to
environmental subjects every year and has many links with internationally
recognized research and educational institutions worldwide.
In
the past WIT has successfully participated in several European Commission
projects. Bellow some of the recent ones are listed:
1.
Numerical simulation of gas flow in porous media, with application to landfill,
(Contract No:
CI1*_CT94-0077VE), International Scientific Cooperation, European
Commission, WIT principal investigator, 1995-1998.
2.
High performance simulation for interactive design,
ESPRIT, European Commission, (Project No: EP25000), 1998-2000.
3.
Low Risk Disposal
Tehnology,
(Contract No: EVG1-CT2000-00020), European Commission, FP5 - Energy, Environment
and Sustainable Development Programme, 2001–2003.
Contribution to CARiMan
WIT would mainly participate in: En – Environmental
CARiMan; Na – CARiMan in nuclear accidents; D2 – Conferences, meetings and
workshops; (maybe OR, but we have to see the objectives of the JPA first).
Short description of WIT
The
Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) is an internationally recognised
organisation dedicated to advanced research and training on computational
solution of engineering problems, including the supervision of Ph.D. theses and
organisation of international courses and conferences. One of the
well-recognized numerical techniques in computational mechanics, Boundary
Element Method (BEM), has been initiated and is constantly developed at WIT. The
main objective of the institute is to provide a link between research engineers
and scientists and practising engineers in industry.
Scientific
personnel involved in the project
Prof.
Carlos Brebbia,
received his PhD at Southampton University, England in 1968 and worked at MIT,
USA and the Central Electricity Research Laboratories, UK as well as the
University of Princeton, USA. He was appointed Lecturer at the University of
Southampton and a Senior Lecturer before becoming a Reader in Computational
Engineering. He became Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of
California at Irvine. Dr. Brebbia is now Director of Wessex Institute of
Technology.
He
has written over 300 scientific papers, is author or co-author of 13 books and
editor or co-editor of over 100 other books. Dr. Brebbia is an internationally
well known specialist in numerical methods, finite and boundary elements and in
the computer solution of engineering problems. He is the Editor of two
scientific journals and has carried out a great deal of consultancy work for the
engineering industry as well as having participated in many international
projects and conferences.
Dr.
Viktor Popov, PhD
in environmental modelling. He is head of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Division and reader at WIT. He joined the Wessex Institute of Technology, as a
researcher, in 1993. His research interests are linked to various physical
processes in the field of environmental research and protection and include:
environmental risk assessment, fluid flow and transport processes, hazardous
waste management, heat transfer, acoustics, etc. He is the principal author of
one book and over thirty journal and conference papers. He is a member of
editorial board of one scientific journal and is co-editor of two books.
Margarita
I. Portapila, BSc
in civil engineering from Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, and MSc in
general and applied hydrology from Centro de Estudios y Experimentacion de Obras
Publicas, Madrid, Spain. She is on leave from the Universidad Nacional de
Rosario (UNR) where she worked in Environmental Modelling. Currently she is
working on numerical methods in water resources at the Wessex Institute of
Technology.
Bruno
Natalini, BSc and
MSc in Mechanical Engineering – Fluid Mechanics from Facultad de Ingenieria
–UNNE, Argentina. He is on leave from Facultad de Ingenieria –UNNE where he
works as Assistant Professor in Fluid Mechanics. He is currently working on
numerical methods for environmental impact assessment in underground
repositories.
Todorka Samardzioska,
BSc and MSc in civil engineering from the St. Cyril and Methodius University (CMU)
– Skopje, Macedonia. She is on leave from the St. Cyril and Methodius
University – Skopje where she is Assistant Professor. She has expertise in
numerical modelling and programming. She is currently working on comparison of
different models for flow and transport through fractured porous media:
continuum model, dual porosity model and discrete fracture model.
Andres
Peratta,
BSc in physics from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He has over
ten years of expertise in numerical modelling and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
He is currently working on development of 3D numerical models for flow and
transport in fractured rock for application in modelling of underground
repositories.
Selected
Publications
Popov, V., Power, H. (1999), Landfill Emission of
Gases into the Atmosphere-Boundary Element Analysis, Computational Mechanics
Publications/WIT Press, Southampton.
Anovski, T., Popov, V. (1999), “Aquifer simulation
and prediction of pollution transport”, International Symposium on Isotope
Techniques in Water Resources and Management, Vienna, 10-14 May, Austria.
Anovski, T., Popov, V. (1999), “Groundwater flow and
prediction of solute transport”, Bulletin of the Chemists and Technologists
of Macedonia, 18/2, pp. 213-216.
Ebecken,
N.F.F. and Brebbia, C.A., (Ed), Data Mining II, WIT Press, Southampton
and Boston, 2000.
Brebbia,
C.A., (Ed), Risk Analysis II, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston, 2000.
Popov,
V., Brebbia, C. A. (2001), ‘Modelling of groundwater flow and contaminant
transport using dual reciprocity BEM’, in: Water Pollution IV, Modelling,
Measuring and Prediction, Edt. Brebbia, C. A., 75-83.
Brebbia,
C.A. and Fajzieva, D., (Ed), Environmental Health Risk, WIT Press, Southampton
and Boston, 2001.
Popov,
V., Power, H. (2002), ‘BEM simulation of groundwater contamination
remediation’, in: Development and Application of Computer Techniques to
Environmental Studies, Edts. Brebbia, C. A. and Zannetti, P., 521-529.
Pusch,
R., Popov, V., Adey, R. (2002), ‘Risk assessment for hazardous waste disposal
in abandoned mines’, in: Risk Analysis III, Edt. Brebbia, C. A., 47-57.
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