Professor Alan Vardy

Alan Vardy was appointed to the Chair of Civil Engineering in 1979 and was Head of Department until 1985 when he began a period of 4 years as the University Deputy Principal. He was then awarded an Industrial Fellowship by the Royal Society and SERC, enabling him to work part-time at Mott MacDonald in Croydon for 4 years developing a long-standing wish to promote safety in operational road and rail tunnels. He has chaired 5 international conferences on Safety in Road and Rail Tunnels, 2 on Tunnel Control and Communication and 3 on Aerodynamics and Ventilation of Vehicle Tunnels and he has organised dozens of international seminars and workshops on tunnel operation and unsteady fluid flows. Alan has four degrees - BSc, PhD & DEng (Leeds) and DSc (Dundee). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

• Skin friction in transient flows
• Numerical errors in Method of Characteristics analyses
• Evolution of steep-fronted waves in long pipes and ducts
• Micro-pressure waves (sonic booms) from railway tunnels
• On-line predictive control of road tunnels

• Vardy, A.E. & Brown, J.M.B. (2007) Approximation of turbulent wall shear stresses in highly transient pipe flows. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 133, 1219-1228.
• Shimada, M., Brown, J.M.B. & Vardy, A.E. (2007) Estimating friction errors in MOC analyses of unsteady pipe flows. Computers and Fluids 32, 1235-1246.
• Shimada, M., Brown, J.M.B., Leslie, D.J. & Vardy, A.E. (2006) Time-line interpolation errors in pipe networks. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 132, 294-306.
• Tijsseling, A.S. & Vardy, A.E. (2005) Fluid-structure interaction and transient cavitation tests in a T-piece pipe. Journal of Fluids and Structures 20, 753-762.
• Vardy, A.E. & Brown, J.M.B. (2004) Efficient approximation of unsteady friction weighting functions. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 130, 1097-1107.

Professor Alan Vardy

Dundee Tunnel Research

Kirkton

Abernyte

Perthshire PH14 9SS