Fabián A. Bombardelli
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2001 Engineering III
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
Magister in "Numerical Simulation and Control," 1999, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ph.D., 2004, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
fabombardelli@ucdavis.edu
PH: (530) 752-0949
FAX: (530) 752-7872
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Fabián A. Bombardelli obtained a degree in Hydraulic Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (a six-year program), and a Master degree (Magister) in "Numerical Simulation and Control" at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. (He was the first candidate to be awarded this degree, after defending his Thesis on January 1999.) Before arriving to the United States to complete his studies, Fabián was Research Engineer on Hydraulic Models at the Instituto Nacional del Agua (INA) in Ezeiza, Argentina (from 1992 till August 1998). At INA, he developed a Thesis on the numerical simulation of the hydrodynamics and pollutant transport in a large estuary (1993; equivalent to a Master degree), and he was involved in the mathematical and numerical modeling of problems associated with waves in coastal areas and harbors, environmental impact of bridges over water courses, scour of river banks downstream of dams, time evolution of river beds, flow in porous media, and thermal discharges to rivers. Among those works, Fabián developed and implemented numerical models of flow and water quality of the Paraná, de la Plata, and Uruguay Rivers, which rank among the largest water bodies in the world.
Fabián developed his Ph.D. research in the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), obtaining his degree in May of 2004 (his Thesis defense was in September of 2003).
Prof. Bombardelli's research involves the development and use of computational-fluid-dynamics and computational-hydraulics techniques to address problems belonging to the field of environmental fluid mechanics. In particular, he focuses on theoretical and numerical aspects of turbulence in multiphase-flow dynamics, including bubble plumes, density currents, sediment transport, hydraulic jumps, and pollutant transport, speciation and fate. In addition, problems linked with flow resistance, particularly the theoretical analysis of formulations usually employed in engineering, are part of his interests. Since his work at UIUC, Prof. Bombardelli's research also involves laboratory and field measurements associated with environmental flows.
Among Prof. Bombardelli's research highlights, it is possible to mention the following:
- A novel and complete 3D theoretical/numerical model for bubble plumes, including a hierarchy of sub-models, chemical processes, and the phenomena of break-up and coalescence of bubbles. The simulations performed included diverse treatments of turbulence (in collaboration with Profs. Marcelo H. García and Gustavo C. Buscaglia).
- A physics-based length scale for bubble plumes (in collaboration with Profs. Marcelo H. García, Gustavo C. Buscaglia, and Chris R. Rehmann).
- A one-dimensional theoretical/numerical model for bubble plumes including turbulence (in collaboration with Profs. Marcelo H. García and Gustavo C. Buscaglia).
- A complete theory for the analysis of phenomena of scour and sediment transport at hydraulic structures, employing the phenomenological theory of turbulence (in collaboration with Prof. Gustavo Gioia).
- An innovative theory for Manning's formula obtained from the phenomenological theory of turbulence (in collaboration with Prof. Gustavo Gioia).
- A novel quasi-3D theoretical/numerical model for the analysis of wind-induced flows in shallow water bodies (in collaboration with Prof. Angel N. Menéndez).
- A novel theoretical/numerical model for the analysis of flow and transport in hydraulic jumps based on the two-phase-flow theory (in collaboration with Mrs. Andrea González).
- A sophisticated theoretical/numerical model for the study of the transport, speciation, and fate of mercury in water bodies, including adsorption to particles (in collaboration with Mr. Arash Massoudieh, Profs. Timothy Ginn and Thomas Young, and Drs. Peter Green and Massoud Kayhanian).
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