PhD supervision
Interested in supervising students studying:
- Environmental fluid mechanics
- Physical limnology
- Coastal oceanography
- Water quality engineering.
Dr Danielle Wain
BS MS PhD
Profile
Dr Danielle Wain is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Water Quality Engineering with the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
Danielle graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (USA) after which she spent two years in the US Peace Corps building rural water systems in the Dominican Republic.
Upon return, she worked for a year as an engineer in environmental consulting until pursuing an MS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois (USA).
She completed a PhD in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University (USA) in 2009.
Danielle then spent two years as a research associate in the Ocean Physics Department at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington (USA).
She most recently had a postdoctoral fellowship from the Changing Earth Science Network of the European Space Agency at the Centre for Climate & Air Pollution Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Danielle joined the University of Bath in 2013.
Research
Danielle's expertise lies in field-based environmental fluid mechanics research in lakes and the ocean, where density stratification (usually caused by temperature or salinity) restricts the vertical mixing of nutrients, oxygen, sediments and other substances, often controlling their spatial variability. She investigates how turbulence is generated by internal waves (ranging from high frequency waves to lower frequency internal seiches and internal tides), how internal waves interact with lake boundaries and submarine canyons in the ocean, and how internal waves drive offshore mass transport. She has further interest in the hydrodynamics of bubble plumes used for destratifying reservoirs.
Teaching
- Civil Engineering Hydraulics 2
Publications
Book Sections
Wain, D. J., Kohn, M. S., Scanlon, J. A. and Rehmann, C. R., 2011. Transport of fluid from the boundary of a lake. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Stratified Flows. .
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2005. Evaluation of oceanographic microstructure measurements for hydraulic problems. In: Proceedings of the 2005 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress: Impacts of Global Climate Change. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), pp. 1-9.
Rehmann, C. R., Wain, D. J. and Soga, C. L. M., 2004. Estimates of the dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy from temperature microstructure. In: Proceedings of the 2004 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress: Critical Transitions in Water and Environmental Resources Management. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Articles
Wain, D. J., Kohn, M. S., Scanlon, J. A. and Rehmann, C. R., 2013. Internal wave driven transport of fluid away from the boundary of a lake. Limnology and Oceanography, 58 (2), pp. 429-442.
Gregg, M. C., Hall, R. A., Carter, G. S., Alford, M. H., Lien, R. C., Winkel, D. P. and Wain, D. J., 2011. Flow and mixing in Ascension, a steep, narrow canyon. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116 (C7), C07016.
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2010. Transport by an intrusion generated by boundary mixing in a lake. Water Resources Research, 46 (8), W08517.
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2005. Eddy diffusivity near bubble plumes. Water Resources Research, 41 (9), W09409.
Conference or Workshop Items
Wain, D. J., Ward, B., Lilly, J. and Callaghan, A. H., 2013. Breaking internal waves on the pycnocline of the Labrador Sea. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, 2013-04-07 - 2013-04-12, Vienna.
Wain, D. J., Gregg, M. C., Alford, M. H., Lien, R. C., Carter, G. S. and Hall, R. A., 2012. Energy fluxes and turbulence in upper Monterey Canyon. In: American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2012-02-20 - 2102-02-24, Salt Lake City.
Wain, D. J., Ward, B., Lilly, J. and Callaghan, A. H., 2012. Measurements of turbulence and mixing in the ocean surface layer with the Air-Sea Interaction Profiler. In: Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study Workshop, 2012-11-26 - 2012-11-27, Lima.
Wain, D. J., Kohn, M. S., Scanlon, J. A. and Rehmann, C. R., 2011. Internal wave driven transport of fluid away from the boundary of a lake. In: Physical Processes in Natural Waters Workshop, 2011-07-10 - 2011-07-13, Burlington.
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2010. Internal waves and turbulence on a sloping boundary in a lake. In: American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2010-02-22 - 2010-02-26, Portland.
Wain, D. J., 2010. Predicting turbulence generation on a sloping boundary in a lake. In: NortekUSA Users Symposium, 2010-05-18 - 2010-05-20, Seattle.
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2008. Evaluation of the Thorpe scale method for estimating dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy. In: Physical Processes in Natural Waters Workshop, 2008-09-01 - 2008-09-04, Lake Tahoe.
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2008. Experiments on the fate of boundary mixed fluid in a lake. In: American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2008-03-02 - 2008-03-07, Orlando.
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2006. Experiments on intrusions generated by boundary mixing in a lake. In: American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2006-02-20 - 2006-02-24, Honolulu.
Wain, D. J. and Asman, R. R., 2006. Rainwater Harvesting in Kamuli, Uganda. In: Engineers for a Sustainable World National Conference, 2006-09-26 - 2006-09-29, Iowa City.
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2004. Comparison of dissipation from velocimetry and temperature microstructure methods. In: IAPSO/SCOR Ocean Mixing Conference, 2004-10-10 - 2004-10-13, Victoria.
Wain, D. J. and Rehmann, C. R., 2004. Eddy diffusivity near a bubble plume. In: 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2004-11-21 - 2004-11-23, Seattle.
Thesis
Wain, D. J., 2009. Fate of fluid mixed at the boundary of a lake. Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). Iowa State University.
Wain, D. J., 2004. Eddy diffusivity near bubble plumes. Thesis (Masters). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
