Dr Alma Schellart
MSc, PhD
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering
+44 114 222 5765
Full contact details
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Room F126
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
91Ö±²¥
S1 3JD
- Profile
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By aiming to understand water flow and quality throughout the whole catchment, and how uncertainty is introduced into numerical modelling, I can advise the water industry on how to better manage our existing sewer infrastructure, and make it more cost-effective and sustainable.
Dr Alma Schellart
Alma studied her MSc degree in Civil Engineering specialising in Water Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
After completing her PhD on uncertainty in sewer sediment transport with us, she worked as a researcher here on uncertainty in integrated water quality modelling and the use of rainfall radar data.
From 2011 to 2013 Alma lectured at the University of Bradford where she expanded her research on urban rainfall and started research on energy balance in the urban water cycle and heat recovery from urban drainage systems. She rejoined the Department in 2013.
- Research interests
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Alma’s research focuses on improving our existing sewer systems and finding better ways to manage them as the global population grows.
By using computer modelling, fieldwork and laboratory measurements she seeks to improve the numerical models used to manage sewer systems.
She looks at water quality and quantity as both are vital for managing and monitoring for our existing systems.
Alma’s work in water quality explores uncertainty and involves predicting the amount of run-off and sediments that may enter our water systems.
The pattern and amount of water which enters our sewer systems is expected to change significantly because of climate change and population growth. Alma aims to find solutions to make better use of our existing sewer infrastructure, which are more sustainable and cost-effective.
Alma has coordinated a large , looking into quantifying uncertainty in integrated catchment studies.
This involved seven other universities and several commercial partners in their exploration of uncertainty in different models and data collection methods, in order to gain a bigger picture of simulating water flow and quality throughout the whole catchment.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Water Supply.
- . Journal of Environmental Management, 318, 115629-115629.
- . Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 13(3).
- . Journal of Cleaner Production, 358.
- . Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 41.
- . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction.
- . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy.
- . Journal of Hydroinformatics, 24(1), 78-92.
- . Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment.
- . Water Research, 194.
- . Water, 13(4).
- . Urban Water Journal, 18(2), 91-100.
- . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 123.
- . Water Science and Technology, 80(12), 2344-2351.
- . Journal of Hydroinformatics.
- . Environmental Modelling & Software.
- . Water Resources Research, 55(5), 4393-4409.
- . Water Research, 150, 368-379.
- . Water Research, 145, 618-630.
- . Water Research, 143, 561-569.
- . Journal of Environmental Engineering (United States), 144(7).
- . Water Sci Technol, 2017(1), 87-98.
- . Journal of Hydrology, 557, 426-433.
- . Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 144(3).
- . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21(2), 1077-1091.
- . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy.
- . Journal of Hydrology, 528, 17-28.
- . Water Science and Technology, 71(1), 89-96.
- . Geothermics, 53, 171-182.
- . Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59(7).
- . Water Science and Technology, 70(2), 297-306.
- . Atmospheric Research, 138, 125-138.
- . Water Science and Technology, 69(3), 672-679.
- . Advances in Water Resources, 45, 65-75.
- . Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 42-44, 11-20.
- Using probabilistic radar rainfall nowcasts and NWP forecasts for flow prediction in urban catchments. Rainfall in the Urban Context: Forecasting, Risk and Climate Change, 103, 80-95.
- . Atmospheric Research, 103, 80-95.
- . Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 136(7), 403-411.
- . Water Research, 44(13), 3893-3904.
- . Water Science and Technology, 57(9), 1405-1411.
- . Water Practice and Technology, 2(1).
- . Water Science and Technology, 52(3), 137-146.
- The acoustic attenuation and hydraulic roughness in a large section sewer pipe with periodical obstacles.. Water Sci Technol, 50(11), 97-104.
- . Water Science & Technology.
- . Water, 14(23), 3839-3839.
Chapters
- , ICE Handbook of Urban Drainage Practice (pp. 145-160). Emerald Publishing Limited
- , Metrology in Urban Drainage and Stormwater Management: Plug and Pray (pp. 415-469).
Conference proceedings papers
- Optimizing mobile sensor movement and trajectory to improve water distribution network calibration. HIC 2024: 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics: From Nature to Digital Water: Challenges and Opportunities (pp 149-150). Beijing, China, 27 May 2024 - 27 May 2024.
- Moving sensor deployment for network-wide pipe roughness calibration. 11th IWA Symposium on Modelling and Integrated Assessment, 24 September 2023 - 27 September 2023.
- A Vision for Pervasive Autonomous Inspection of Buried Pipe Infrastructure. 38th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies, No-Dig 2022, 3 October 2022 - 5 October 2022.
- . Proceedings of 14th IWA / IAHR International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD2017). Prague, CZ, 10 September 2017 - 15 September 2017.
- High resolution rainfall measurement and analysis in a small urban catchment. 9th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas: Urban Challenges in Rainfall Analysis, UrbanRain 2012 (pp 115-120)
- Definition and implementation of innovative comparison tools between radar and rain gauge rainfall measurement. 9th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas: Urban Challenges in Rainfall Analysis, UrbanRain 2012 (pp 38-43)
- Optimising a Fuzzy logic real-time control system for sewer flooding reduction using a genetic algorithm. CCWI 2017 - 15th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry
- Evaluation of radar-rain gauge merging methods for urban hydrological applications: Relative performance and impact of gauge density. Rainfall in Urban and Natural Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas, UrbanRain 2015
- Effect of biodegradability on erosion of highly organic sewer sediment.. 13th International Conference on Urban Drainage, Sarawak. Sarawak, Malaysia, 7 September 2014 - 12 September 2014.
- . New Frontiers in Geotechnical Engineering
- Viability of Heat Recovery from Combined Sewers. 7th Int. Conf. Sewer Processes and Networks. 91Ö±²¥, UK
- Improving rainfall nowcasting and urban runoff forecasting through dynamic radar-raingauge rainfall adjustment (2013).. 7th Int. Conf. Sewer Processes and Networks. 91Ö±²¥, UK
- Analysis of different quantitative precipitation forecast methods for runoff and flow prediction in a small urban area. Weather Radar and Hydrology, Vol. 351 (pp 614-619)
- Comparison of rainfall radar and rain gauge data and application to sewer hydraulic modelling. Integrating Water Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI 2009 (pp 763-766)
- . The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024), Vol. 162 (pp 73-73)
Preprints
- Research group
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SuDS (Sustainable Drainage Systems) and Urban Drainage
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Grants
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Past Grants
The EPSRC-funded Grand Challenge Centre for Water, comprising 6 UK universities and 100+ industrial partners working in collaboration to develop the sustainable water solutions of the future and to accelerate innovation uptake across the water sector.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Coordinator of Marie-Curie Initial Training Network on Quantifying Uncertainty in Integrated Catchment Studies – 2014 to 2018
- Co -Investigator on CENTAUR H2020 project: /centaur - 2015 - 2018
- Co-Investigator on TWENTY65 - https://twenty65.ac.uk/ - 2016 - 2021
- Member of IWA Working Group in Data and Models, and IWA working group Sewer Processes and Networks
- Potential PhD offerings
Unfortunately I am not seeking any PhD Students at this time, however please contact me if you are interested in doing a project in my research area.