Civil & Natural Resources

Civil and Natural Resources Engineering

Sarah DelavanSarah Delavan

Position

Post Doctoral Fellow

Qualifications

  • PhD in Enviromental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources Engineering (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan)
  • MSE in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (University of Texas at Austin)

Room

3rd floor Civil/Mechanical building, E303

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 364 2396 internal: 7328
Fax: +64 3 364 2758
Email: sarah.delavan@canterbury.ac.nz

 

Publications

Delavan, S. K., D. R. Webster, , “Unsteadiness of bivalve clam jet flow according to environmental conditions”, Marine Ecology Press Series (In Progress)
                        
Delavan, S. K., D. R. Webster, “Indirect predator effects on bivalve excurrent velocity unsteadiness”. (In Progress)
 
Delavan, S. K., D. R. Webster, “Influence of the bivalve clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, on field boundary layer momentum distribution”. (In Progress)

Watts, M., S. K. Delavan, E. Padilla, R. Armour-Bressler, M. Hay, “Covering with seaweed camouflages kelp bed sea urchins from visual predators”, Marine Ecology Press Series Notes. (In Review)
 
Hodges, B. R., and S. K. Delavan, 2004, “Numerical diffusion and dissipation in hydrostatic models in internal waves”, 17th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, June 13-16, 2004, University of Delaware, Newark, Electronic Proceedings (CD-Rom), 7 pgs.

 

Research Brief

  • Mixing in stratified flows
  • Aquatic canopy flow
  • Ecological chemical and biological flow applications
  • Environmental fluid mechanics