Dave Campbell
Schnabel Engineering, USA

Spillway hydraulic modelling – Personal adventures and peeks behind the curtain

Dave Campbell
Dave Campbell is Schnabel Engineering’s Director of Dam Engineering. He has more than 35 years of experience in dam engineering and water resources planning, including in-depth capabilities for water supply planning, designs for new and existing dams, hydrologic analysis and hydraulic design.  Dave founded dam engineering services at Schnabel Engineering in 1994. Schnabel’s Dam engineering services has grown to include 75 dam engineering personnel, who are regularly supplemented by the firm’s geotechnical, geostructural and geologic engineering expertise.

Dave has broadly published on dams and contributed to an AWWA-sponsored water resources planning book, Water Resources Planning – M50 (2001, 2007 and 2013 in progress).  He led development and presentation of a FEMA sponsored one week course on dam safety. Additionally, Mr. Campbell has been honored with the ASDSO National Award of Merit and Villanova University’s John Gallen Memorial Award for his contributions to dam safety.

Laurent David
Institut Pprime, CNRS- Université de Poitiers – ENSMA, France

Fishway hydrodynamics and global approaches for insuring the upstream migration around dams

Laurent David
Laurent David is Professor of fluid mechanics at the University of Poitiers since 2006. His PhD degree and his accreditation diploma to supervise research (HDR) were obtained respectively in 1996 and in 2005. Since 2010, he is at the head of the Hydrodynamics and Environmental flow section composed to 14 permanent researchers and involved in environmental hydrodynamics, open channel flows, solid transport and mixing, and flow rheology.

The research interests cover fundamental aspects of unsteady flows with moving structures, turbulent free-surface flows, environmental flows and mixing through different national and European programs. Fundamental contributions to optical flow measurements include PIV and stereoscopy PIV measurement techniques and recently free surface measurement and volumetric measurement techniques.

Fabian Bombardelli
University of California, Davis, USA

Computational multi-phase fluid dynamics to address flows past hydraulic structures

Fabian Bombardelli
Fabian Bombardelli holds a degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of La Plata, a Master degree in "Numerical simulation and control" from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Since 2004, Bombardelli has been Professor (currently Associate with tenure) at the University of California, Davis. His research program focuses on the development of novel theoretical and numerical models and techniques to address multi-phase, environmental problems. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics of Fluids, Int. Journal of Multiphase Flow, Geophysical Research Letters, J. of Geophysical Research, Water Resources Research, etc. Bombardelli received paper awards from the ASCE and the ASME and he received the Best Reviewer Award from IAHR. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Fluid Mechanics; he serves as member of the Hydraulic Structures Committee of IAHR and as Vice-Chair of the Sub-committee for Model Verification and Validation of ASCE.