Dr Dapeng Yu

Lecturer in Physical Geography

email: d.yu2@lboro.ac.uk

Tel : +44 (0)1509 228191
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930

Room NN.1.11b, Martin Hall building, East Park

Department of Geography

(last updated: April 2012)

Research Interests

Current Projects

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Research Interests

My primary research interest is the development and applications of hydraulic and hydrological models for better understanding of the dynamics of the Earth’s surface. This includes:

1. numerical modelling of flood inundation, flood risk management and assessment;

2. interaction between climate change, land-use change, sediment delivery and flood risk;

3. environmental applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing.

4. 3D modelling of the dynamics of channel bifurcations in gravel-bed rivers; and

5. issues at the interface between flow hydraulics and river-floodplain ecology.

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Current Projects

1. Flood damage estimation coupled with high resolution flood inundation modelling (Cumbria, Lake District UK)

2. Effect of rapid sedimentation on flood risks (Cumbria, Lake District UK)

3. Effect of structural features on flood inundation and their representation in flood models (York, UK).

4. Interaction between sea level rise, urban drainage network and flood risks (Shanghai, China)

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Publications

Journal Papers

Wu X.D., Yu, D.*, Chen, Z.Y. and Wilby, R.L. (2012). An evaluation of the impacts of land surface modification, storm sewer development, and rainfall variation on waterlogging risk in Shanghai. Natural Hazards. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0153-1

Yin J, Yin Z, Yu D and Xu S. (in press). Vulnerability analysis of storm-induced flood risks: a case study in the Huangpu River. Scientia Geographica Sinica (In Chinese).

Hardy, R.J., Lane, S.N. and Yu D. 2011. Flow structures and mixing in an idealized bifurcation channel: a numerical experiment. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 36(15): 2083-2096. doi:10.1002/esp.2235.

Yu, D. and Lane, S.N. 2011. Interactions between sub grid-scale resolution, feature representation and grid-scale resolution in flood inundation modelling, Hydrological Processes, 25: 36-53. doi:10.1002/hyp.7813.

Yu, D. 2010. Parallelization of a 2D flood inundation model based on domain decomposition. Environmental Modelling & Software 25:935-945. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.003.

Casas, A., Lane, S. N., Yu, D. and Benito, G. 2010. A method for parameterising roughness and topographic sub-grid scale effects in hydraulic modelling from LiDAR data Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. doi:10.5194/hess-14-1567-2010.

Lane, S.N., Reid, S.C., Tayefi, V., Yu, D. and Hardy, R.J. 2008. Reconceptualising coarse sediment delivery problems in rivers as catchment-scale and diffuse, Geomorphology, 98(3-4): 227-249.

Tayefi, V., Lane, S.N., Hardy, R.J. and Yu, D. 2007. A comparison of 1D and 2D approaches to modelling flood inundation over complex upland floodplains, Hydrological Processes 21: 3190-3202.

Lane, S.N., Tayefi, V., Reid, S.C., Yu, D. and Hardy, R.J. 2007. Interactions between sediment delivery, channel change, climate change and flood risk in a temperate upland environment, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32(3): 429-446.

Yu, D. and Lane, S.N. 2006a. Urban fluvial flood modelling using a two-dimensional diffusion wave treatment, part 1: Mesh resolution effects, Hydrological Processes, 207: 1541-1565.

Yu, D. and Lane, S.N., 2006b. Urban fluvial flood modelling using a two-dimensional diffusion wave treatment, part 2: Development of a sub grid-scale treatment, Hydrological Processes, 207: 1567-1583.

Casas, A., Lane, S.N., Hardy, R.J., Benito, G. and Yu, D. in revision. Topographical complexity and the spatial structure of three dimensional river flow, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Casas, A, Lane, S.N., Yu, D., Hardy, R.J. and Benito, G. submitted. The role of complex topography through subscale spatial parameterisation upon two-dimensional floodplain flow. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

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Manuscripts and Book Chapters

Yu, D. (2010) Diffusion-Based Flood Inundation Modelling: Development and application of a flood inundation model over topographically complex floodplains. VDM publication. March 2010. 240pp.

Yu, D. and Lane, S.N. 2006. Diffusion-based modeling of flood inundation based on sub-grid connectivity. In: Ferreira, Alves, Leal & Cardoso. River Flow 2006: 313-322.

Yu, D. and Lane, S.N. 2004. Urban fluvial flood modelling using a two-dimensional diffusion wave treatment. In: M. Greco, A. Carravetta & R. Della Morte River Flow 2004. 2004: 1085-1094.

Lane, S.N., Hardy, R.J., Yu, D., Tayefi, V. and Reid, S.C. 2006. Climate change, sediment delivery and flood risk explored using two dimensional modelling. In: Ferreira, Alves, Leal & Cardoso. River Flow 2006: 2147-2156.

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Referred Conference Papers

Lane, S.N, Reaney, S.M. and Yu, D. 2006. Wetter? Drier? Floods? Droughts? Continuous flow simulation to 2099 for Northern England, British Hydrological Society 9th National Hydrology Symposium, Durham University, September 2006.

Lane, S.N., Brookes, C.J., Hardy, R.J., Holden, J., James, T.D., Kirkby, M.J., McDonald, A.T., Tayefi, V. and Yu, D., 2003. Land management, flooding and environmental risk: new approaches to a very old question. Proceedings of the CIWEM National Conference, Harrogate, September 2003.

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Conference Abstract and presentation

Çagla, M. K., Yu, D. and Gungor, O. 2012. Producing flood risk maps for Pazarsuyu Creek, Giresun, Turkey, Using a two-dimensional inertial based flood inundation model. 10^th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Wu, X. D., Yu, D. and Chen, Z. Y. 2011. Coupled modelling of surface runoff and storm overflow induced waterlogging in the City of Shanghai, LOICZ Open Science Conference 2011, Yantai China. (Presentation)

Tayefi, V., Lane, S.N., Hardy, R.J., and Yu, D. 2004. The prediction of upland flood inundation in topographically complex situations using a 1D and 2D modelling. Paper presented to the American Geophysical Union Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii 16-20^th August 2004.

Yu, D., Lane, S.N., Hardy, R.J., Best, J.L., Parsons, D., Keevil, G. and Thomas, R.E. 2007. Flow Structure in a Bifurcation: CFD modelling and Validation. Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H54A-08.

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Short CV

2007 – present: Lecturer in Physical Geography, Loughborough University, UK.

2004 – 2007: Research Associate in Physical Geography, Durham University, UK.

2001 – 2005: Ph.D in Physical Geography, University of Leeds, UK.

1999 – 2001: M.Sc. in Geographical Information Science, Wageningen University & Research Centre, The Netherlands.

1994 – 1998: B.Sc., School of Environment and Resources, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

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Students Supervised

2009 – present: Julian O’Neill Phd candidate

2009 – present: Tao Wu MSc student (Environmental Management)

2008 – 2009: Jiandong Ji MSc student (Environmental Management)