Education

· Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering - Water Resources (2011-Current)

University of Waterloo, Canada

· M.Sc. Civil Engineering - Hydraulic Structures (2009)

      Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

· B.Sc. Civil Engineering  (2006)

      Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Research Overview

Ali Ameli is working on the development and application of robust modelling approaches for solving naturally and mathematically complex water  resources problems in integrated groundwater and surface water systems. He is trying to provide accessible and user friendly tools and techniques to educators  and regulators. Water resources models can provide useful information to policy makers, increase our understanding of the interaction between watershed components and help predict the effects of climate change and land use change on our available water resources. Discrete mesh-based numerical models in spite of all the advantages they brought might be subject to errors and computational inefficiency. On the other hand, mesh-free analytical or semi-analytical schemes with continuous and accurate solutions can provide comprehensive understanding of water resources principles, and at the same time, circumvent mesh discretization issues in widely-used numerical software.

Current Research

Analytical solutions for mathematically and naturally complex 3-D  groundwater-surface water interaction flow

Analytical solutions for hybrid saturated-unsaturated flow

 

Effect of capillary fringe zone in subsurface flow modeling

 

 

Simulation of Subsurface storm flow in forested hillslopes — Research collaboration with Global Institute of Water Security (GIWS)

 

Low order Vs High order numerical schemes — Research collaboration with Shiraz University (Shiraz, Iran)

 

Contributions

Refereed Journal Publications (1)

  Ameli, A., J.R. Craig and S. Wong (2013), Series solutions for saturated-unsaturated flow in multi-layer unconfined aquifers , advances in water  resources, (60), pp: 24-33.

 

Refereed Journal Publications in Review (1)

  Ameli, A. and M. J. Abedini (2013), Performance assessment of low-order versus high-order numerical schemes in numerical simulation of transient one and two dimensional aquifer flow, submitted in February 2013 to Environmental Modelling and Software.

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