Vladimir Nikora

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Professor at University of Aberdeen (UK)

Title: Very-Large-Scale Motions (VLSMs) in Open-Channel Flows and Implications for Sediment Transport and Hydraulic Resistance

Introduction: Professor Vladimir Nikora is Sixth Century Chair in Environmental Fluid Mechanics at the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen (UK),where he serves as Leader and Academic Line Manager of the Fluid Mechanics Research Group. His main research accomplishments relate to the development and applications of new approaches and concepts for describing and predicting rough-bed turbulent flows, sediment dynamics, hydraulic resistance, and flow-biota interactions. Professor Nikora was an Editor of IAHR Journal of Hydraulic Research, JHR (2011-2016) and Associate Editor for AGU Water Resources Research (2006-2011) and ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (2007-2011). He is currently one of the Advisory Editors for the IAHR Journal of Ecohydraulics and an Associate Editor for JHR. Professor Nikora is the Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland National Academy). He is a recipient of the 2010 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award and 2017 Hans Albert Einstein Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the 7th M. Selim Yalin Lifetime Achievement Award of IAHR. Over the years, he has contributed to IAHR as a Chair of Technical Committees on Fluid Mechanics and on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation, and as a Member of the IAHR Council, among other involvements.