Dr Ponnambalam Rameshwaran

Hydraulic/Mathematical Modeller

Research interests

River hydraulics, 2D and 3D hydraulic / mathematical modelling, turbulence measurements and modelling, sediment transport, flow behaviour through and around vegetation in natural rivers.

Recent Publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive.

2004 and earlier

Rameshwaran, P. and Naden, P.S. (2004) Three-dimensional modelling of free-surface variation in a meandering channel. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 42(6), 603-615.

Rameshwaran, P. and Naden, P.S. (2004) Modelling of turbulent flow in two-stage meandering channels. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, 157(3), 159-173.

Naden, P.S., Rameshwaran, P. and Vienot, P (2004) Modelling the influence of instream macrophytes on velocity and turbulence. Fifth International Symposium on Ecohydraulics, 12 -17 September 2004, Madrid, Spain, Edited by Diego García de Jalón Lastra and Pilar Vizcaíno Martínez, 1118-1122.

Rameshwaran, P. and Shiono, K. (2004) Depth-averaged modelling of overbank flow in meandering channels. River Flow 2004, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, 23-25 June 2004, Napoli, Italy, Edited by M. Greco, A. Carravetta & R. Della Morte, Volume 1, 329-335.

Rameshwaran, P. and Shiono, K. (2003) Computer modelling of two-stage meandering channel flows. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water and Maritime Engineering, 156(4), 325-339.

Rameshwaran, P. and Naden, P.S. (2003) Three-dimensional numerical simulation of compound channel flows. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE), 129(8), 645-652.

Ishigaki, T., Shiono, K. and Rameshwaran, P. (2002) PIV and LDA measurements of secondary flow in a meandering channel for overbank flow. Journal of Visualization, 5(2), 153-159.

Rameshwaran, P. and Shiono, K. (2002) Predictions of velocity and boundary shear stress in compound meandering channel. River Flow 2002, International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, 4-6 September 2002, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Edited by D. Bousmar & Y. Zech, Volume 1, 223-231.

Chandler, J.H., Shiono, K., Rameshwaran, P. and Lane, S.N. (2001) Measuring flume surfaces for hydraulics research using a Kodak DCS460. Photogrammetric Record, 17(97), 39-61.

Chandler, J.H., Shiono, K. and Rameshwaran, P. (2001) How digital photogrammetry is helping to understand river flooding. Surveying World, 9(2), 19-21.

Shiono, K., Rameshwaran, P., Chan, T., Spooner, J. and Chandler, C.H. (2001) Flow mechanisms for the reduction of sediment transport rates in meandering channels at an early stage of overbank flow. Proceedings of the 2001 International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, 5-8 December 2001, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Paper 46.

Shiono, K., Spooner, J., Rameshwaran, P. and Chandler, J.H. (2001) Energy losses in meandering channels with flat and natural beds for overbank flows. XXIXth Congress of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research, September 16-21, 2001, Beijing, China.

Ishigaki, T., Shiono, K., Rameshwaran, P., Scott, C.F. and Muto, Y. (2000) Impact of secondary flow on bed form and sediment transport in a meandering channel for overbank flow. Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 44, 849–854.