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Bill Peirson
Adjunct Professor
UNSW Water Research Laboratory
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bill is the former Director of the Water Research Laboratory and a former co-Director of the UNSW Water Research Centre.
He has over 35 years professional engineering expertise and research experience in large-scale water engineering. This includes the fields of:
- Engineering hydraulics and fluid mechanics
- Coastal and ocean engineering
- River engineering
- Estuarine and port engineering
- Engineering hydrology
His specialist research interests include:
- Wave dynamics: air-sea interaction; wave breaking; turbulence; fluid mechanics
- Coastal and oceanographic processes; coastal structures
- Estuarine processes: environmental flows to estuaries; estuarine ecology; ecohydraulics; cohesive sediment dynamics
- Air-water exchanges of gases and other tracers
- Climate change adaptation of major engineering infrastructure
- Computer applications in civil and environmental engineering: numerical and physical modelling; instrument design
- Flood and river engineering; stormwater structures
- Atmospheric boundary layer processes
- Outfall design and assessment
- Reservoir engineering
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