Hubert Chanson


Hubert Chanson is a hydraulic engineering and applied fluid mechanics academic. Since 1990 he has worked at the University of Queensland.

Research

Chanson authored several books among which: Hydraulic Design of Stepped Cascades, Channels, Weirs and Spillways, Air Bubble Entrainment in Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows, The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction, The Hydraulics of Stepped Chutes and Spillways, Environmental Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows, Tidal Bores, Aegir, Eagre, Mascaret, Pororoca: Theory and Observations and Applied Hydrodynamics: An Introduction. He co-authored the book Fluid Mechanics for Ecologists and he edited several other books. The textbook The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction has already been translated into Chinese and Spanish and the second edition appeared in 2004. He has further published over 850 peer-reviewed papers and his work was cited over 5,900 times to 18,000 times. His h-index is 39, 43 and 67 in Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar respectively.
He witnessed the 2010–11 Queensland floods and he documented thoroughly some observations in Central, Southern and South-East Queensland.
Hubert Chanson's ResearcherID is A-1194-2008. His ORCID number is 0000-0002-2016-9650.

Awards

The International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research presented Chanson with the 13th Arthur Ippen Award for outstanding achievements in hydraulic engineering.
The American Society of Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute presented him with the 2004 award for the best practice paper in the ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, and the 2018 Honorable Mention Paper Award for "Minimum Specific Energy and Transcritical Flow in Unsteady Open-Channel Flow" by Castro-Orgaz and Chanson in the ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.
The Institution of Civil Engineers, UK presented him the 2018 Baker Medal.
In 1999 he was awarded a Doctor of Engineering from the University of Queensland for his outstanding research achievements in gas-liquid bubbly flows.
In 2018, he was inducted a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Hubert Chanson is ranked among the 150 most cited researchers in civil engineering in .

Selected Works