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Staff Name	Dr Ashraf Ahmed
Job Title	Lecturer
Location	David Keir Building David Keir
Room Number	0G.026
School	School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Contact Details
Telephone	+44 (0)28 9097 4015
E-mail	a.ahmed@qub.ac.uk

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EDUCATION

PhD - Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, UK

MSc - Civil Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt

BSc - Civil Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt

Publications

Journal(s)
Title	Journal Name	Year
Transport of Naphthalene in Shallow Beach Aquifers	ICE - Water Management Vol In press (xx-xx)	2011
Design of hydraulic structures considering different sheetpile configurations and flow through canal banks	Computers and Geotechnics Vol 38 (559-565) DOI	2011
A lysimeter experimental study and numerical characterisation of the leaching of incinerator bottom ash waste	Waste Management Vol 30 (1536-1543) DOI	2010
Desorption kinetics of trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene from aged dense nonaqueous phase liquid-contaminated soil	Water and Environment Journal Vol 24(2) (159-164) DOI	2010
Three-dimensional analysis of seepage below and around hydraulic structures	Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE Vol 14 (243-247) DOI	2009
Stochastic analysis of free surface flow through earth dams.	Computers and Geotechnics Vol 36(7) (1186-1190) DOI	2009
Design of hydraulic structures resting on spatially random soil.	Engineering Research Journal, Faculty of Engineering, Banha University Vol 9 (34-47)	2008
Saturated-unsaturated flow through leaky dams.	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Vol 134 (10) (1564-1568) DOI	2008
3-D steady analysis of leaky hydraulic structures: 2. Leaky dams.	Journal of Engineering and applied Science Vol 54 (3) (289-302)	2007
3-D steady analysis of leaky hydraulic structures: 1. Leaky sheetpiles.	Journal of Engineering and applied Science Vol 54 (2) (141-157)	2007
Field scale DNAPLs transport under nonequilibrium sorption conditions.	Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A: Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering Vol 41 (273-290) DOI	2006
Effects of contamination age on phenanthrene desorption from aquifers	Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A: Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering Vol 41 (1-15) DOI	2006
Conference Contribution(s)
Title		Year
Hydraulic structures with defected sheetpiles		2010
Effect of sheetpile configuration on seepage beneath hydraulic structures		2010
Solute migration and transport in coastal sand-beach sediments under strong tides		2010
Effect of tide-induced water table fluctuations on contaminant transport in coastal aquifers.		2008
Three-dimensional analysis of seepage below and around hydraulic structure.		2007
Numerical modeling of velocity distributions in navigable canals at outflow water exits.		2007
Saturated-unsaturated flow through earth dams.		2007
Effect of contaminants age on desorption of phenanthrene from rock fragments.		2003
Nonequilibrium desorption of TCE: Investigation at a field scale.		2003
Dense nonaqueous phase liquids persistence to desorption from contaminated soils and sediments.		2003

Research Statement

• Mathematical modeling of groundwater flow and mass transport in hydrogeologic systems by numerical methods including model development.

• Multiphase flow and transport in contaminated aquifers.

• Nonequilibrium sorption of organic chemicals to porous media.

• Seepage flow through dams and under hydraulic structures.

• Stochastic analysis of heterogeneous porous media.

• Slope stability analysis using probabilistic models.

Awards And Honours/major Prizes

Other Information

I teach the following modules:

1. Hydrogeology 1 (CIV4017) Semester 1- MSc in Environmental Engineering students.

2. Design 3 (CIV3007), Semester 1 - Stage 3 students.

3. Coordinator, Fluid Mechanics (Fluids1- CIV1008), Semester 2 - Stage 1 students.

4. Computer Modelling of Contaminant Transport (CIV8011), Semester 2 MSc students in Water resources, and MSc in Environmental Engineering.

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