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Welcome to the homepage of Panayiotis (Panos) Diplas
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 Panayiotis (Panos) Diplas
Founding Director of the K. S. Baker Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory
Title : Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Program Area : Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Address : Patton Hall 220-B, Blacksburg, VA 24061
E-mail : pdiplas(at)vt.edu
Telephone : (540) 231-6069
Personal Homepage : http://www.cee.vt.edu/program_areas/hydrosystems/faculty/diplas.html
Alternate URL for this homepage : http://www.cee.vt.edu/people/diplas.html
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| Areas of Interest : |
| | - Environmental hydraulics, river mechanics and sediment transport, watershed management, stream restoration, ecological engineering, water and pollutant movement through wetlands, theoretical and experimental fluid mechanics, turbulent boundary layers, solid - liquid separation, nonlinear phenomena
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| Education : |
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- B.S.Civil Engineering, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
- M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
- Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
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| Professional Honors, Awards, and Recognitions : |
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- J. S. Braun/Braun Intertec Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Presidential Young Investigator - National Science Foundation
- Key-note speaker at the "International Conference on Hydraulic Engineering: Research and Practice," 2004, Roorkee, India
- Key-note speaker at the XVII General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, 1992, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Invited speaker and panelist at the 1999 Science to Achieve Results meeting of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Research Initiation Award - National Science Foundation
- Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech
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| Courses Taught : |
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- Fluid Mechanics for CEE
- Environmental Hydrology
- Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- River Mechanics and Sediment Transport
- Fluid Flows in Nature
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| Selected Research Projects : |
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- Physics Based Modeling of Bridge Foundation Scour: Numerical Simulations and Experiments-National Science Foundation/Army Research Office
- Development of Design Methods for In-Stream Flow Control Structures-National Coopertive Highway Research Program
- The Role of Fluctuating Fluid Forces on the Initiation of Sediment Motion - National Science Foundation
- Impact of Flow Releases on Bank Stability of the Lower Roanoke River-Dominion Power/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- From Landscapes to Waterscapes: Integrating Framework for Urbanizing Watersheds - Environmental Protection Agency/National Science Foundation
- Smith River Tailwater Investigations - Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries / Army Corps of Engineers
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| Selected Publications : |
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- Diplas, P., Dancey, C.L., Celik, A.O., Valyrakis, M., Greer, K., Akar, T., (2008). "The role of impulse on the initiation of particle movement under turbulent flow conditions." Science DOI:10.1126/science.1158954, 322: 717-720, October 31.
- Liu, D., Diplas, P., Fairbanks, J.D,, and Hodges, C.C., (2008). “An experimental study of flow through rigid vegetation hydrodynamics.” Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Science, DOI:10.1029/2008JF001042, 113:1-16, December 19.
- Shen, Y. and Diplas, P., (2008). “Application of Two- and Three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics Models to Complex Ecological Stream Flows.” Journal of Hydrology, 348(1-2): 195-214.
- Dancey, C.L. and Diplas, P., (2008). “Fully Rough Channel Flow and the Determination of Log Law Parameters.” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 134(9): 1353-1356.
- Crowder, D. and Diplas, P. (2006). "Applying Spatial Hydraulic Principles to Quantify Stream Habitat." River Research and Applications, 22(1): 79-89.
- Almedeij, J.H., Diplas, P. and Al-Ruwaih, F., (2006). “Approach to Separate Sand from Gravel for Bedload Transport Calculations in Streams with Bimodal Bed Materials.” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 132(11): 1176-1185.
- Almedeij, J. and Diplas, P. (2005). "Bed Load Sediment Transport in Ephemeral and Perennial Gravel Bed Streams." EOS, Transactions AGU, November 1, 86(44):429 & 434
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