Hung Tao Shen

Hung Tao Shen
Professor and Chair (Joined Clarkson in 1976)
140 Rowley Laboratories
Clarkson University
PO Box 5710,
Potsdam, NY 13699-5710
Phone: 315-268-6606
FAX: 315-268-7985
E-mail: htshen@clarkson.edu
Personal Web Site


Education
PhD Mechanics and Hydraulics - University of Iowa 1974
ME Water Resources Engineering - Asian Institute of Technology 1969
BS Civil Engineering - Chung Yuan University 1965

Teaching Interests
River hydraulics; cold regions hydraulic engineering; sediment transport; hydrodynamics dispersion.

Research Interests
River and sea ice processes; transport of pollutants in surface waters; mathematical modeling of surface water hydraulics; oil spill modeling. Current projects include river and sea ice models; freeze up ice processes; ice jam dynamics; ice effect on salt water intrusion.

Honors
- Ice Research and Engineering Award, Int'l Assoc. for Hydraulic Research, 2008
- Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineering, 2007
- Gerard Medal, Canadian Geophysical Union - Hydrology Section, 2001
- CAN-AM Civil Engineering Amity Award, American Society of Civil Engineering, 2000
- Harold R. Peyton Award for Cold Regions Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineering, 2000

Recent Publications
Shen, H.T., 2006.  “A Trip through the Life of River Ice – Research Progress and Needs,” Keynote Lecture, Proceedings, 18th IAHR Ice Symposium, Sapporo.

Tuthill, A., Liu, L., and Shen, H.T., 2004. “Modeling Ice Passage at Navigation Locks,” Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, ASCE, 18(3), 89-109.

Ye, S.Q., Deoring, J., and Shen, H.T., 2004. “A Laboratory Study of Frazil Evolution in a Counter-Rotating Flume,” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, V.31, 899-914.

Shen, H.T., 2003. “Research on River Ice Processes: Progress and Missing Links,” Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, ASCE, 17(4), 134 –142.

Shen, H.T., Xu, Q., and Yapa, P.D., 2003. “Modeling Lamprecide Transport in the St. Marys River,” Journal of Great Lakes Research, 29(Sup.1), 694-705.

Shen, H.T. and Liu, L., 2003. “Shokotsu River Ice Jam Formation,”Cold Regions Sc. and Tech., 37(1), 35-49.

Shen, H.T., 2002. “Development of a Comprehensive River Ice Simulation System,” Plenary Lecture, Proceedings, 16th Int’l Symposium on Ice, IAHR, Dunedin, New Zealand, 142-148.

Kerr, D.J., Shen, H.T., and Daly, S.F. 2002. “Evolution and Hydraulic Resistance of Anchor Ice on Gravel Bed,” Cold Regions Sc. and Tech., 35/2, 101-114.

Xia, X., and Shen, H.T., 2002. “Nonlinear Interaction of Ice Cover with Shallow Water Wave in Channels,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 467, 259-267.

Hirayama, K., Yamazaki, M., and Shen, H.T., 2002. “Aspects of River Ice Hydrology in Japan”, Hydrological Processes, 16(4), 891-904.

Stone, B., Shen, H.T., 2002. “Hydraulic Resistance of Flow in Channels with Cylindrical Roughness,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 128(5), ASCE, 500-506.