School of Engineering and Informatoin Technology

Prof Eric Valentine

Prof Eric Valentine, BSc (Hons), PhD, Eur Ing, CEng, FICE
Foundation Chair, Civil Engineering

Contact details

Phone: +61 8 8946 6350
Email: eric.valentine@cdu.edu.au
Address: School of Engineering and Information Technology
Charles Darwin University
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 0909
Fax: +61 8 8946 6680
Building: Purple 12
Room: Purple 12.1.11

Teaching

  • Water Resources Engineering
  • Coastal Engineering

Research interests

Research focuses on water engineering:

  • Coastal and fluvial hydrodynamics
  • Sediment transport and dispersion
  • River stability and regime
  • Structures in the water environment
  • Hydraulics of water and sewage treatment plants

Selected publications

Books and book chapters

Valentine, EM et al, Sediment Processes, Chapter 3 in Flow and sediment transport in compound channels, Eds. I. McEwan and S. Ikeda. IAHR Monograph, Submitted 2003.

Journal papers (2000 - present)

Valentine E.M. & Haidera, M.A. A new formulation for the Wallingford rational regime theory, accepted April 2005 Journal of Water Engineering, ICE.

Bathurst, J.C., Benson, I.A., Valentine, E.M. & Nalluri, C.  Overbank sediment deposition patterns for straight and meandering flume channels. Earth Surface Proc. Landforms. 27, 2002, pp 659-665.

Babayean-Koopaei. K., E.M. Valentine & E.A. Ervine, A Case Study on Hydraulic Performance of Brent Reservoir Siphon Spillway, ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, June 2002,pp 262-267, Volume128, No.6.

Valentine, EM, Z. Ali & D.C Swailes, A two-zone model for longitudinal dispersion in channels with idealized pools and riffles.  Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, Prague, pp77-103, vol.50, No.2, 2002.

Novak, P and EM Valentine, Teaching of hydraulic design at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, December 2001. pp 1009-12.

Valentine, EM, IA Benson, C Nalluri and JC Bathurst, Regime theory and the stability of straight channels with bankfull and overbank flow. Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 39, 2001, No. 3, pp259-268.

Benson, IA, EM Valentine, C Nalluri and JC Bathurst, Stabilising the sediment bed in laboratory flumes, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 39, 2001, No. 3, pp279-282.

Benson, IA and EM Valentine, Discussion on Computation of regime channel characteristics on a thermodynamic basis by MS Yalin and AM Ferriera da Silva, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 39, 2001, No. 3, pp 333-335. 

Babaeyan-Koopaei, K., EM Valentine and DC Swailes, Optimal design of parabolic-bottomed triangle canals, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, A.S.C.E., Vol 126, No.6, pp408-411, November/December 2000, ISSN 0733-9437/00/0006-0408-0411.

For a complete list of publications, please click here.


Membership of professional organisations

  •   Fellow, Engineers Australia