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Education

Courses

Research

Interested in Graduate School?

You can study Water Resources and Environmental Engineering online with Distance Education

I am always looking for graduate research assistants who are interested in the water resources and environmental fluid mechanics field.  Please email or call me if you are interested in learning more about the graduate program at Villanova University

Announcements

2007 Pennsylvania Stormwater Management Symposium

Registration.  October 17-18, 2007, Villanova, PA

The World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2008 is going to be in Honolulu, HI.  The call for papers just passed; look for registration coming soon.  May 13-16, 2008

Welcome.  This webpage is meant to be a continued piece of work for my courses and research.

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University.  My research focus is in the area of Water Resources Engineering, specifically in Environmental Fluid Mechanics.  My full academic c.v.

Education

Ph.D. (Civil Engineering) The University of Texas as Austin, 2004

M.S. (Environmental Engineering) The University of Texas at Austin, 2002

B.C.E. (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Villanova University, 2000

Courses 

Fall 2007

          CEE 3500 - Fluid Mechanics 

          CEE 8503 - Open Channel Hydraulics

                * This class is taught through Distance Education

Previous

CEE 3511 - Hydraulic Engineering and Hydrology

CEE 8507 - Environmental Flows (Graduate) - description

      *This class will be offered in Spring 2008, it replaces CEE 8509 - Modeling of Open Channels

CEE 4606 - Water Resources Senior Design

      *We worked with Philadelphia Water Department to provide the design of a stormwater retrofit in a local park.  Read a description of the project.

 

Research

See more details on my research.

   Publications

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Most recent:

A Diffusion Model for Low Reynolds Number Flows in a Wetland (2007) - The diffusion mechanism for CSW is examined.  Field experiments are compared to laboratory diffusion coefficients, and a Mike 21 model of the CSW is presented. 

     Wadzuk, B.M. and E. Burke, (2007). “A Diffusion Model for Low Reynolds Number Flows in a Wetland,” Proceedings of the 2007 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Tampa, Fl, May 15-19, 2007.

Reconceiving the Villanova University Constructed Stormwater Wetland (2007) - A model is presented to understand the hydrology and hydraulics of the CSW and to think about how we conceptualize CSW functions and future designs.

     Wadzuk, B.M., W.C. Heasom, and R.G. Traver, (2007). “Reconceiving the Villanova University Constructed Stormwater Wetland.” Proceedings of the 2007 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Tampa, Fl, May 15-19, 2007.

Modeling and optimizing the design of Villanova University's constructed stormwater wetland (2006) - A simple model is presented to understand the hydrology coming into the CSW and the hydraulics through the CSW.

     Wadzuk, B.M., W.C. Heasom and R.G. Traver, (2006). "Modeling and optimizing the design of Villanova University's constructed stormwater wetland," AWRA 2006 Annual Water Resources Conference, November 6-9, 2006, Baltimore, MD.  Abstract

Understanding the design of Villanova University’s constructed stormwater wetland (2006) - The past, present and future of the Villanova University CSW is detailed.

     Heasom, W.C., B.M. Wadzuk, and E. Burke, (2006). "Understanding the design of Villanova University’s constructed stormwater wetland," AWRA 2006 Annual Water Resources Conference, November 6-9, 2006, Baltimore, MD.  Poster

A diffusion model for low Reynolds number flows through a constructed stormwater wetland (2006) - The diffusion mechanism for CSW is examined.  Field experiments are compared to laboratory diffusion coefficients, and a preliminary model is presented. 

     Wadzuk, B.M and E. Burke, (2006). "A diffusion model for low Reynolds number flows through a constructed stormwater wetland," 7^th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, September 10 - 13, 2006, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. 

Hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic modeling of internal waves (2006) - Hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic models are compared quantitatively using numerical diffusivity and viscosity as a metric. 

     Wadzuk, B.M and B.R. Hodges, (2006). "Hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic modeling of internal waves", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, submitted.