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Summary
The paper describes some aspects of the writer’s career in civil engineering, mostly as an academic staff member at The University of Queensland. The discussion is grouped around a number of recurring themes: teaching in fluid mechanics and hydraulics, experimental research on flows past bluff bodies including bridges and buildings, computational fluid dynamics, computational hydraulics, hydraulic models and hydraulic structures.
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C J Apelt
Colin Apelt is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Consultant in the department of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland. He was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering in 1979 and served as Head of Department from 1982 to 1994. After retirement from the full time academic staff in 1996, he was appointed Professorial Research Fellow until the end of 1999. Throughout his career, he has been involved in engineering education, in research and in professional practice in fluid mechanics and water engineering, and has striven to interrelate these fields so that they enrich and are enriched by each other.
His research fields are in Computational Hydraulics applied to tidal and flood flows, to waves and to transients in pipelines; Computational Fluid Mechanics applied to bluff body flows and to flows in open channels; Experimental Fluid Mechanics applied to flows past bluff bodies with relevance for flood and debris loads on bridges and for wind engineering, to efficient passage of flood flows through waterways, to turbulence and energy losses in natural streams and engineered waterways, and to wave forces on berthing structures.
He has acted as specialist consultant on the hydraulic design of many major projects involving spillways, energy dissipators, bridges, culverts and flood mitigation works; and on computer modelling of flood and tidal flows in design and/or flood plain planning studies associated with many river and estuary systems in Queensland and New South Wales.