William Peirson

Adjunct, Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bill is the former Director of the Water Research Laboratory and a former co-Director of the UNSW Water Research Centre.

He has over 30 years professional engineering expertise and research experience in large-scale water engineering. This includes the fields of:

• engineering hydraulics and fluid mechanics;
• coastal and ocean engineering;
• river engineering;
• estuarine and port engineering; and
• engineering hydrology.

His specialist research interests include:

• Wave dynamics: air-sea interaction; wave breaking; turbulence; fluid mechanics.
• Coastal and Oceanographic Processes; Coastal Structures.
• Estuarine Processes: environmental flows to estuaries; estuarine ecology; ecohydraulics; cohesive sediment dynamics.
• Air-water exchanges of gases and other tracers
• Climate Change Adaptation of major Engineering infrastructure.
• Computer Applications in Civil and Environmental Engineering: Numerical and Physical Modelling; Instrument Design.
• Flood and River Engineering; Stormwater Structures.
• Atmospheric boundary layer processes.
• Outfall Design and Assessment.
• Reservoir Engineering.