51cg

Biography

2021-: Senior Research Fellow, The 51cg, School of Engineering

2021-2007: Research Fellow, The 51cg, School of Engineering

2006-2002: PhD, The University of Auckland, Civil Engineering.

2002-2001: ME (Honours), The University of Auckland, Civil Engineering.

2000-1997: BE (Honours), The University of Auckland, Civil Engineering.

Research Overview

• Open channel flow turbulence structure
• Sediment entrainment and transport
• Flow-biota interactions
• Particle Image Velocimetry development

Funding and Grants

• "Secondary currents in turbulent flows over rough walls", EPSRC, UK (V.Nikora, S. Cameron, £735.4k), a part of a joint project with University College London, University of Glasgow, and University of Southhampton, 2021-2024.
• "River flow regulation, fish behaviour and status – RIBES", European Commission, (V. Nikora, S. Cameron, B. Scott, S. Martin, £242.1k), 2020-2023.
• "Field stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (FSPIV) system for high-resolution in-situ studies of freshwater and marine ecosystems", NERC, UK (S.Cameron, V. Nikora, B. Scott, C. Soulsby, £289.1k), 2019-2020.
• "Bed friction in rough-bed free-surface flows: a theoretical framework, roughness regimes, and quantification", EPSRC, UK (V. Nikora, S. Cameron, £526.5K), a part of a joint project with the Cardiff University (T. Stoesser, R.A. Falconer), 2014-2017.
• "Hydrodynamic transport in ecologically critical heterogeneous interfaces" (HYTECH), EC, Marie Curie Initial Training Networks FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN (V. Nikora, S. Cameron, C. Gibbins, £505K) a part of a collaborative international program led by the University of Padova, 2013-2016.
• "High-resolution numerical and experimental studies of turbulence-induced sediment erosion and near-bed transport", EPSRC, UK (V. Nikora, S. Cameron, £438.5K) and DFG, Germany  (G. Jirka, M. Uhlmann, J. Fröhlich, W. Rodi), 2010-2014.