Research Profile

Urban Hydrology & Hydraulics

• Drainage Systems  
• Snowmelt 
• Ecological Systems  
• Beneficial Use of Stormwater 
• Water Harvesting 
• Water Supply Protection 
• Flotation 

Researchers involved are Professor Lars Bengtsson, Drs  Lennart Jönsson, Linus Zhang, Peder Hjorth and PhD students Johanna Sörensen (Sweden) and Dadi Thorsteinsson (Iceland). Research is carried out in close co-operation with Lanzhou Railway University China ; ACSAD, Damascus, Syria ; St Joseph University , Beirut , Lebanon ; Malmö City (Sweden) ; Luleå Tech. Univ.; Guelph Univ. , Ontario ; Norway Tech. and Natural Univ. , Trondheim and Dept. Irrigation and Drainage (DID), Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia. The department is engaged in the MISTRA Urban Water Program.

Surface Hydrology & Runoff

• Drainage & Wetlands 
• River Management 
• Rainfall-Runoff Modeling  
• Sediment Transport 
• Flood Protection 
• Snowmelt  

Researchers involved are Professors Lars Bengtsson and Ronny Berndtsson, Drs Rolf Larsson, Linus Zhang and doctoral student Feifei Yuan. Rickard Lidén and Zhi-Qiang Deng presented their theses earlier. --  Research is carried out in close co-operation with Finnish Environm. Assoc., Helsinki, Finland; Agricultural Univ., Kaunas, Lithuania; Inst. of Agronomy and Veterinary Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco; INRGREF, Tunis, Tunisia; Kish Free University, Iran; Dept. of Environm. Engineering, Academy of Sci, Ukraine; Kyshu Univ., Japan; the Danish Land Development Service, Roskilde, Denmark; Danish Tech. Univ.; the Planning and Design Inst. of Water Resources, Beijing, China; Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, USA; CCIW, Burlington, Ontario, Canada; Iceland University, Reykavik; Moscow Univ., Russia; Inst. Numerical Mathematics, Russian Acad. Sci., Moscow and Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, Norrköping.

Physical Limnology

• Thermal Regime of Lakes 
• Ice Covered Lakes 
• Mixer Induced Circulation  
• Remote Sensing 
• Paleolimnology   

Researchers involved are Professors Lars Bengtsson and Magnus Larson, Drs Lennart Jönsson and Rolf Larsson.  Chuqun Chen from China presented his Phd thesis in 2008. Research is carried out in close co-operation with CCIW, Burlington, Ontario, Canada; the Inst. Limnology, St Petersburg and the Karelian Inst., Petrozavodsk, Russia; the  National Inst. Hydrology, Roorkee, India; the Tech. Univ., Kaunas; Lithuania; Inst. Zoology and Botany, Tarttu Univ., Estonian; Pirkanmea Regional Environm. Center, Helsinki, Finland ; Swiss Federal Inst of Environm. Science and Tech., EAWAG, Dubendorf, Switzerland and VITUKI, Budapest.

Coastal Engineering

• Sediment Transport 
• Wave Generation & Propagation 
• Beach Evolution  
• Coastal Protection 
• Ship Generated Waves & Erosion

Resources  

Researchers involved are Professors Hans Hanson and Magnus Larson  and PhD Students Sofia Westergren (Sweden) and  Jaime Palalane (Moçambique). Nam  Pham Thanh (Vietnam) and Hoan le Xuan (Vietnam), both presented their PhD theses in 2010. Ty Wamsley (USA) and Chantal Donnelly (Australia) presented their Ph.D theses in 2009 and 2008. Sten Blomgren (Sweden) presented his thesis in 1999 and Li Eriksson (USA) presented her thesis in 2005. Research is carried out in close co-operation with the US Army Corps Engineers, Vicksburg, USA; Tech. Univ., Braunschweig, Germany; Tokyo Univ., Japan and South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. In addition, the Coastal Engineering group is involved in major EU projects.

Waste Management & Landfills

• Water Transport in Landfills 
• Emissions & Environmental Impacts of Old & New Landfills 
• Waste & Energy with Emphasis on Incineration Technique
• Landfill in Arid and Semi Arid Areas  

Waste Research Info 

Researchers involved are Professors Lars Bengtsson, Kenneth M. Persson. Aamir Ilyas (Pakistan), and Mohammad Aljaradin (Jordan), both successfully defended their PhD theses 2013. Hanna Modin presented her PhD thesis in 2012. Martijn van Praagh presented his PhD thesis in 2007. Theses have also been presented by Mattias Åkesson, Peter Flyhammar and David Bendz. Research is carried out in co-operation with the Department of Ecotoxicology, Lund, Sweden, Technische Universität Hamburg- Harburg, Germany and  Ensil, University of Limoges, France.