Scott Wells, Ph.D., P.E.

Department Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
B.S., Tennessee Technological University, 1979

Dr. Wells has research expertise in environmental fluid mechanics involving surface water quality and hydrodynamic modeling. Dr. Wells basic research has been in the area of modeling liquid-particle separation in environmental engineering processes. Research includes modeling the dynamics of cake filtration and the dynamics of liquid/particle flow in water and wastewater clarifiers. Specific areas include modeling the physics of cake filtration with sedimentation, filtration in a belt-filter press, and filtration in a plate-and-frame press. Current areas of investigation also involve determination of slurry properties for modeling solid-liquid separation processes.

In addition to mathematical modeling, he is actively involved in surface and groundwater quality monitoring. His research teams work in the Portland metropolitan area including the Willamette River, the Columbia River, the St. John's Landfill, Smith/Bybee Lakes, and the Lower and Upper Columbia Sloughs.

His research group has been involved in numerous water quality and hydrodynamic modeling studies throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Hawaii, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Tennessee, the Ukraine, and Israel/Jordan. Research is focused on development of computer simulation models of surface water systems: rivers, lakes, reservoirs, lakes, and estuaries. He is the co-author of one of the most widely used multi-dimensional water quality models in the world, CE-QUAL-W2. He has modeled almost 100 different water body systems throughout the US and abroad.

For more information, please visit his web site at http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~scott/

202K Engineering Building
1930 SW Fourth Avenue
Portland, OR 97201 USA
Phone: 503-725-4276
Fax: 503-725-5950
Email: scott@cecs.pdx.edu