Dr Dongfang Liang
- University Senior Lecturer
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About
Dongfang Liang graduated in hydraulic engineering from Tsinghua University in China (BEng in 1998 and PhD in 2003). His PhD project involved the measurement of shallow water flows using the large-scale PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) and PLIF (Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence) techniques. When working in the University of Western Australia and Cardiff University as research associates, he widened his research by concentrating on numerical modelling of local scour phenomena and flash floods in urban environments. He is now a University Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering Fluid Mechanics, and is also a Fellow and Director of Studies of Churchill College.
Dr. Liang visited Kyoto University as a Matsumae International Research Fellow in 2012, TU Berlin as a Humboldt Research Fellow for Experienced Researchers in 2013-2015, and Deltares as a Marie Curie Fellow in 2016. He was also a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow in 2015.
Research
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Dr Liang's current research topics include flood risk management, water/soil/structure interactions and hydro-environment. He has studied shallow water flows, rainfall-runoff processes, ocean wave propagation and runup, scour and liquefaction around offshore structures, seepage and overtopping induced embankment failure, flow-like landslides, turbulent mixing and water pollution.
Dr. Liang has developed several mesh-based and meshfree computational models for his research, and has expertise in digital image processing and its application in hydraulic experiments. He is the chairman of the local organising committee for the MPM2019 Conference (http://mpm2019.eu), and has recently been sponsored by the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk) and Trimble Fund to apply advanced drone technology to monitor floods and landslides.