Applied Hydrodynamics

Hubert Chanson is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland, where he has been since 1990, having previously enjoyed an industrial career for six years. His main field of expertise is environmental fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering, both in terms of theoretical fundamentals, physical and numerical modelling. He leads a group of 5-10 researchers, largely targeting flows around hydraulic structures, two-phase (gas-liquid and solid-liquid) free-surface flows, turbulence in steady and unsteady open channel flows, using computation, lab-scale experiments, field work and analysis. He has published over 1,300 peer reviewed publications including two dozen of books. He serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, Journal of Hydraulic Research, and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, the latter of which he is currently a senior Editor. Since 1994, he has been involved in the organisation of a dozen international scientific conferences. And he chaired the Organisation of the 34th IAHR Word Congress (2011) and of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (2020), both held in Brisbane, Australia.Hubert Chanson authored single-handedly several books : "Hydraulic Design of Stepped Cascades, Channels, Weirs and Spillways" (1995), "Air Bubble Entrainment in Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows" (1997), "The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow : An Introduction" (1999 & 2004), "The Hydraulics of Stepped Chutes and Spillways" (2001), "Environmental Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows" (2004), "Applied Hydrodynamics: an Introduction of Ideal and Real Fluid Flows" (2009 & 2014), and "Tidal Bores, Aegir, Eagre, Mascaret, Pororoca: Theory And Observations" (2011). He co-authored the books "Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters. Hydraulics Guidelines to assist Upstream Fish Passage in Box Culverts." (2021) and "Fluid Mechanics for Ecologists" (2002,2006), and he edited several further books. His textbook "The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction" has already been translated into Chinese and Spanish, and it was re-edited in 2004.Hubert Chanson received several prestigious international awards, including from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-EWRI), the International Association for Hydro-environment engineering and Research (IAHR), the Institution of Civil Engineers, London (ICE), and the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society (AFMS). In 2025, his work was cited over 9,300 times (WoS) to 29,500 times (Google Scholar), and his h-index was 52 (WoS), 57 (Scopus) and 89 (Google Scholar).Hubert Chanson's Youtube channel is: { https://www.youtube.com/@Hubert_Chanson}.

• 0. Introduction Part I - Irrotational Flow Motion of Ideal Fluid Chapter 1 - Introduction to Ideal Fluid Flows Chapter 2 - Ideal Fluid Flows and Irrotational Flow Motion Chapter 3 - Two-Dimensional Flows (1) Basic equations and flow analogies Chapter 4 - Two-Dimensional Flows (2) Basic flow patterns Chapter 5 - Complex potential, velocity potential & Joukowski transformation Chapter 6 - Joukowski transformation, theorem of Kutta-Joukowski & lift force on airfoil Chapter 7 - Theorem of Schwarz-Christoffel, free streamlines & applications Part II - Real Fluid Flows : Theory and Applications Chapter 8 - Introduction Chapter 9 - An introduction to Turbulence Chapter 10 - Boundary Layer Theory. Application to Laminar Boundary layer Flows Chapter 11 - Turbulent Boundary layers Chapter 12 - Turbulent pipe flows