Newcastle University

Background

Joined the Department of Civil Engineering in April 1996 as a member of the Water Resources Engineering Group. Her main areas of teaching are fluid mechanics and hydraulics as well as hydraulic design and modelling. She also teaches quantitative and numerical methods used in water resources in general and in particular in Computational hydraulic. Her main research areas are Computational hydrulics and Hydroinformatics with the emphasis on the development of new numerical methods and new software tools for simulation of free-surface flows. Main applications of her work are in river modelling and rural and urban flood risk assesment.

Roles and Responsibilities 

Degree programme director for the Newcastle University part of the Joint International MSc programme in Hydroinformatics and Water Resources - Euro Aquae

Year Tutor for stage 3 Civil Engineering Programmes in the School

Member of the Civil Enginnering Programmes Management Group 

Deputy leader of the Information Technology Theme within the Civil Engineering Programmes

Qualifications

MEng in Civil Engineering from Univerity of Zagreb, Croatia 1984

MSc in Computational Hydraulics from IHE Delft, The Netherland 1991

PhD in Civil Engineering for TU Delft, The Netherlands 1996

Certificate in Teaching and Learning, Newcastle University 1999 

Industrial Experience

Consulting Engineer, Elektroprojekt, Zagreb, Croatia 1985-1989,

Assessment of the impacts of designed hydro power stations on river and ground water levels. Options assessment. Extensive experience in the use of commertial software in the fields of river hydraulics and ground water flow. Development of various mathematical models and software tools used in design of hydro power stations (spillway design, reservoir routing, energy production, technical drawing).

Memberships

Intrenational Asociation for Hydraulc Research (IAHR) since 1993

Undergraduate Teaching

CEG 1501 Fluid Mechanics - 100% - Module leader

CEG3305 Computational Engineering Analysis - 15%,

CEG3001 Design of Sustainable Engineering Sysytems 3 - 20% (deputy module leader),

CEG3004 Sustainable Engineering Systems Design Project- 20%.  

Postgraduate Teaching

I am a Degree Programme director for Newcastle University part of the Joint International Msc in Hydroinformatics and Water Management- Euro Aquae- funded by EU (phase1-2004-2010 and phase2-2010-2015) 

I tech on following postgraduate modules:

CEG8501 Quantitative Methods for Engineering -50% - module leader

CEG8502 -Quantitative Methods for Engineering (flexible) - 50% - module leader

CEG 8515 Modelling of Floods -50% - molule leader

CEG 8517 Computational Hydraulics -60% - module leader

CEG 8506 Hydrosystems Modelling -25%

Research Interests

Computational Hydraulics - Development of numerical methods and software codes for numerical solution of free surface flow equations using method of finite differences and method of finite volumes.

Flood modelling using one and two dimensional hydrodinamic models

Object Oriented Numerics - Development of object oriented codes for simulation of free-surface flows

Other Expertise

Additional flow rresitance due to vegetation

Current and Future Research

Developments in the field of finite volumes for solution of free-surface flows

Development of tools for urban flood risk assesmnet 

Exploration of use of Cloud Computing for flood risk assesment 

Postgraduate Supervision

Supervised 4 PhD students that graduated between 2002 and 2005. Cosupervised 2 sucessful PhD students between 2001-2005

Currently supervising one PhD student in its first year (Ms Blanca Garcia Navarrete - Adaptation of Urban Drainage Systems due to the Impacts of Climate Change)

Esteem Indicators

Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Hydroinformatics
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Hydroinformatics 2002 Conference,Cardiff, July 2002
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Hydroinformatics 2004 Conference,Singapore, July 2004
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Hydroinformatics 2006 Conference,Nice, France,September 2006
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Hydroinformatics 2009 Conference, to be held in Consumpcion, Chile January 2009,
Invited speaker on the International Workshop ""Palaeofloods, Historical Data & Climatic Variability: Applications in Flood Risk Assessment"", Barcelona, Spain, October 2002
Invited Keynote speker on the Internaltional conference AQUA 2003, September 2003, Cartagena, Colombia
Member of EPSRC Peer Review College (2002-2005)
External Examiner for PhD degrees at the Politechnica of Catalonia, Barcelona (December 2005, October 2006)

Funding

Co-Investigator on EPSRC funded "General and unifying concepts for water treatment plant design" (phase 1 2004-2008 and phase2 2008-2013)

Co-Investigator on a collaborative project with the Environment Agency  Development of CityCAT-Urban Flood Modelling and Analysis Tool" (phase 1 - October2009 – March2010 and phase 2 - October 2010-December 2011)

Principal-Investigator on a joint EPSRC and JISC  funded project (EP/I034351/1) "Flood Modelling for Cities Using Cloud Computing" (April 2011-November 2011)

• Kutija V. Hydraulic modelling of floods. In: Palaeofloods, Historical Data and Climatic Variability: Applications in Flood Risk Assessment. 2002, Barcelona, Spain: Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales.
• Erduran KS, Kutija V. Application of the finite volume method with osher scheme & split technique for different types of flow in a channel. In: International Conference on Godunov Methods - Theory and Applications. 2001, Oxford, UK: Springer.