Mark Loewen, PhD, MSc, BSc, PEng

Area of Study / Keywords

Water Resources Engineering Professor

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About

Education

• Ph.D. in Oceanographic Engineering, The Joint Program with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1986-1992
• M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1983-1984
• B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1979-1983

Professional Experience

• 07/02 - present, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
• 09/99-06/02, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
• 07/98-07/99, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington
• 06/92-06/97, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• 01/92-05/92, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 09/86-12/91, Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 03/85-08/86, Construction Engineer, Chevron Canada Resources Ltd., Calgary, Alberta

Professional Affiliations

• Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta
• American Society for Engineering Education
• American Geophysical Union
• International Association of Hydraulic Research

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Research

Research Interests

My general research interests include: River ice engineering, urban drainage and hydraulic engineering. My specific interests are in: freeze-up processes, frazil ice generation and evolution, water quality monitoring and modelling, and stormwater pond design and operation.

Research currently in progress

• Field measurements of frazil ice properties
• Field monitoring of anchor ice growth and release
• Modelling of river ice processes
• Field investigations of supercooling in rivers
• Stormwater pond monitoring and modelling

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Teaching

CIV E 330 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

CIV E 439 Water Resources Engineering Design

CIV E 631 Engineering Fluid Mechanics

CIV E 330 - Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

Fluid properties; dimensional analysis; hydrostatics; fundamental equations of fluid motion; laminar, turbulent and inviscid flows; boundary layers and flow around immersed bodies; elementary building aerodynamics. Prerequisite: MATH 209. Corequisite: MATH 201.

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CIV E 631 - Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Navier-Stokes equations and viscous flow. Turbulence and Reynolds equations. Potential flow. Boundary layers. Flow around bodies. Jets and wakes. Related Lab experiments.

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Browse more courses taught by Mark Loewen

Jiaqi Yang, Chuankang Pei, Yuntong She, Mark Loewen

Journal of Hydrology. 2024 October; 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131851

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Chuankang Pei, Jiaqi Yang, Yuntong She, Mark Loewen

The Cryosphere. 2024 September; 10.5194/tc-18-4177-2024

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Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2023 January; 10.1016/j.coldregions.2022.103736

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Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.coldregions.2021.103455

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Cryosphere. 2021 January; 10.5194/tc-15-49-2021

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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2020 January; 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2981082

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Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2017 January; 10.1016/j.coldregions.2017.08.001

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Nature. 1997 January; 10.1038/385052a0

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Nature. 1988 January; 10.1038/336054a0

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