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Ben Hodges Associate Professor hodges@mail.utexas.edu |
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| ECJ 8.208 Phone: (512) 471-4730 Fax: (512) 471-5870 UT Mail: C1786 |
Interests
Dr. Hodges' interests are centered on environmental fluid mechanics. His work typically involves studying the physics of transport in surface water (lakes, rivers, estuaries and wetlands) and linkages between hydrodynamics and water quality. This includes areas such as internal wave propagation, stratification effects in estuaries that lead to hypoxia, and the flow around large woody debris in rivers that affects aquatic habitat. Dr. Hodges most recent work has been focused on modeling, but future work will include a greater emphasis on field studies. For more information, see Dr. Hodges' home page.
Education
B.S., U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Marine Engineering/Nautical Science, 1984
M.S., George Washington University, Mechanical Engineering, 1991
Ph.D., Stanford University, Civil Engineering, 1997
Representative PublicationsHodges, B.R. , B. Laval, and B.M. Wadzuk (2006), “Numerical error assessment and a temporal horizon for internal waves in a hydrostatic model,” Ocean Modelling, 13(1):44-64. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.09.005.
White, L., B.R. Hodges, B. Austin, and T. Osting (2006), “Identification of submerged large woody debris from single-beam echo soundings,” Journal of Hydroinformatics, 8(1):1-12.
White, L. and B.R. Hodges (2005), “Filtering the signature of submerged large woody debris from bathymetry data,” Journal of Hydrology, 309(1-4):53-65.
Merwade, V.M., D.R. Maidment and B.R. Hodges (2005), “Geospatial representation of river channels,” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 10(3):243-251.
B.R. Hodges, "Accuracy order of Crank-Nicolson discretization for hydrostatic free furface flow," ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 130(8): 904-910 (2004).
