MAGNUS LARSON - BRIEF CV

Profession: Professo
Date of Birth: 12 th of August, 1958

Contact Details :

Water Resources Engineering
Lund University
Box 118
221 00 Lund
SWEDEN

Phone: +46 46 222 8729
Fax: +46 46 222 4435
Email: Magnus.Larson@tvrl.lth.se

Key Qualifications:

Fundamental and applied work on hydrodynamics (waves and currents), sediment transport, and morphological change in coastal areas. Developer of theoretical formulas, analytical formulations, empirical techniques, and numerical models for predicting the bed evolution in coastal areas. Experience of advanced data analysis techniques and data-driven simulation methods. Involved in research and engineering projects to model wave transformation, nearshore circulation, sediment transport, and beach change. Work on fundamental fluid mechanics and environmental hydraulics including mixing in fluids and shear flows. Project experience from Europe, USA, Japan, China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Egypt . Author of more than 230 Technical Reports, Conference Papers, and Journal Articles. Invited Visiting Researcher/Professor: Coastal Engineering Research Center ( USA), Texas A&M University ( USA), University of Sydney ( Australia), Technical University of Braunschweig ( Germany), University of Tokyo ( Japan), University of Tsukuba ( Japan), Nihon University ( Japan), and Kyoto University ( Japan).

Education:

2000- Professor, Dept. of Water Resources Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology/University of
Lund, Lund, Sweden
1994- Docent (Associate Professor), Dept. of Water Resources Engineering, Lund Institute of
Technology/University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
1988- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology/University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
1982- M.S. in Civil Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology/University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Selected International Assignments:

  • Sri Lanka (Sida-SAREC) Open University of Sri Lanka, Seasonal closure of coastal inlets, Physical processes and mathematical modeling.
  • Vietnam ( Sida-SAREC) Center for Marine Environment Survey, Research and Consultation, The evolution and Sustainable Management of the Coastal Areas in Vietnam.
  • Egypt ( Sida-SAREC /VR) Suez-Canal University, Impact of coastal erosion and sedimentation along the northern coast of Sinai Peninsula.
  • China , ( Sida-SAREC ) South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, Transport of water and material to the Pearl River Estuary and bordering areas of the South China Sea.
  • Japan ( University of Tokyo) Visiting Professor, Coastal Engineering Laboratory and Institute of Environmental Studies, in total more than three years.
  • Europe (European Union) Participation in several research and development project including SAFE, PACE, BASYS, HUMOR, FLOODSite, and ENCORA.
  • USA ( US Army Corps of Engineers) Fundamental and applied research on waves, current, sediment transport, and beach morphology (visiting researcher for more than 2 years in total).

Main Research Projects:

(Emphasis on coastal projects. A summary of project titles is given together with sponsoring organization within brackets; PM denotes project manager)

  • Analytical and numerical modeling of shoreline evolution (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
  • Numerical modeling of beach profile change (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; PM)
  • Numerical modeling of three-dimensional beach change (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; PM)
  • Numerical modeling of longshore current in the nearshore region (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; PM)
  • Numerical modeling of wave height decay in the surf zone (Swedish Natural Science Research Council; PM)
  • Analysis and modeling of natural longshore bars and material placed to create bars (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; PM)
  • Turbulence under breaking waves (Swedish Natural Science Research Council; PM)
  • Integration and advancement of coastal sediment processes numerical simulation models (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
  • The effect of non-erodible (hard) bottoms on the beach profile evolution (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; PM)
  • Prediction of aggregated-scale coastal evolution (PACE) (MAST Research Program of the European Union)
  • Soft beach protection and beach nourishment (SAFE) (MAST Research Program of the European Union)
  • The Baltic Sea system study (BASYS) (MAST Research Program of the European Union)
  • Surf zone hydrodynamics (Swedish Natural Science Research Council; PM)
  • The transport of material to the Pearl River Estuary and bordering areas of the South China Sea (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; Sida-SAREC; PM)
  • Beach engineering research and management (Ministry of Education, Japan)
  • Equilibrium beach profile concepts (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; PM)
  • Development of numerical models for simulating morphological processes at coastal inlets (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
  • Mathematical modeling of turbulent boundary layers under waves and currents (Swedish Natural Science Research Council; PM)
  • Simulating beach profile evolution in the offshore (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; PM)
  • Simulation of nearshore wave propagation using a Boussinesq model (Swedish Natural Science Research Council; PM)
  • Coastal Evolution in the Red River Delta Vietnam (Sida-SAREC; PM)
  • Human interaction with large-scale coastal morphology (HUMOR) (5th RTD Framework Program of the European Commission)
  • The interaction of large and high speed vessels with the environment in archipelagos (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems; VINNOVA)
  • Hydrodynamics and sediment transport in the swash zone (The Swedish Research Council VR; PM)
  • Seasonal closure of coastal inlets - Physical processes and mathematical modeling (Sida-SAREC; PM)
  • Impact of storms on coastal dunes (The Swedish Research Council VR; PM)
  • Impact of coastal erosion and sedimentation along the northern coast of Sinai Peninsula (Sida-SAREC/VR; PM)
  • Integrated flood risk analysis and management methodologies (FLOODsite) (6th RTD Framework Program of the European Commission)
  • Slope failure in contaminated areas – spreading of pollutants to surface waters in a changing climate (The Swedish Research Council Formas; PM)

Publications include more than 60 reviewed articles, 5 book contributions, 80 conference papers (mostly reviewed contributions), 20 reviewed international reports, 30 national reports, and 50 unpublished papers and reports.

Several computer programs have been developed for the US Army Corps of Engineers since the end of the 1980s, including SBEACH, NMLONG, BMAP (RMAP), and certain parts of the Coastal Modeling System (CMS).

 

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