Welcome to the Urban Water and Surface Hydrology research group led by Jose Vasconcelos with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Auburn University! Our goal is to advance engineering and science, focusing on water resources for communities and the environment, focusing on time-varying flows and multiphase applications. Please reach us through our email: jgv@auburn.edu or our LinkedIn profile. Our publications can also be reached on our ResearchGate page.

RECENT POSTS AND INTERESTING THINGS

July 2024 - Dr. Vasconcelos was awarded a CAPES Print fellowship to visit the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. A course on using numerical modeling of unsteady flows was offered, along with experiments performed to study intermittency in indoor plumbing with the influence of air pockets.

January 2024 - The paper "Evolution and Characterization of Pressurized Flow Conditions in Stormwater Collection Networks" written by Dr. Vasconcelos, Vitor Geller, Carolina Triboni, Daniel Wright, and Ben Hodges, was published in the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.

May 2024 - The Guatemala Travel Team of Auburn University's Engineers Without Borders successfully completed our implementation of a drinking water system project for the village of Xeo in the Quiché Department in Guatemala. More than 190 households are now connected to a distribution system with various pressure zones and 9 pressure-breaking water tanks to counter the elevation difference exceeding 240 meters of static pressure head. Thanks for all the support from the sponsors that have enabled this work!

March 2024 - Dr. Vasconcelos was invited as a speaker in a webinar hosted by the journal MDPI Water focused on the hydrodynamic modeling of Open Channel and Pressurized flows

September 2023 - The paper "Generalized, Dynamic, and Transient-Storage Form of the Preissmann Slot" written by Sazzad Sharior, Ben R. Hodges, and Dr. Vasconcelos, was published in the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.

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