Ben R. Hodges, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: Office: ECJ 8.208
Phone: (512) 471-4730
Fax: (512) 471-0592
Email: hodges@mail.utexas.edu
UT Mail: C1786
My Website: http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/hodges/efm/Environmental_Fluid_Mechanics.html
Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-EWRE
301 E. Dean Keeton St. Stop C1786
Austin, TX 78712-1173
Area(s) of Expertise:
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., Stanford University, Civil Engineering, 1997
M.S., George Washington University, Mechanical Engineering, 1991
B.S., U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Marine Engineering/Nautical Science, 1984
Technical Interests:
Hydrodynamics, transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries
Selected Publications:
Hodges, B.R. and J.E. Furnans and P.S. Kulis (2010), "Case Study: A thin-layer gravity current with implications for desalination brine disposal," in press, ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.
Hodges, B. (2010), "The importance of mixing and isolation time for desalination brine discharge," Proceedings of the International Engineering Conference on Hot Arid Regions (IECHAR 2010), Al-Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, March 1-2, 2010, pp. 235-240.
Fu, S. and B.R. Hodges (2009), "The time-centered split-implicit time-marching method for nonlinear advection," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 135:4:256-265. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2009)135:4(256).
Wadzuk, B.M., and B.R. Hodges (2009), "Hydrostatic versus nonhydrostatic Euler-Equation modeling of nonlinear internal waves," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 135:10:1069-1080. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2009)135:10(1069)
Hodges B R. (2009) "Hydrodynamical Modeling." In: Gene E. Likens, (Editor) Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. volume 1, pp. 613-627 Oxford: Elsevier.