Christina W. Tsai

Appointent: Associate Professor in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering

Office:202 Jarvis Hall

Phone: (716) 645-4015

Fax:(716) 645-3667

Email: ctsai4 at buffalo edu

Home Page:http://www.csee.buffalo.edu/professors_tsai.shtml

Research Interests: open channel hydraulics; wave mechanics in surface flow; risk and reliability analysis in hydraulics and hydrology; sediment transport engineering; hydroinformatics (neural network applications); applied mathematics

Recent Publications:

• Man, C. and Tsai, C.W. (2008). “A higher-order predictor-corrector scheme for twodimensional advection-diffusion equation.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 56 (4), 401-418, DOI: 10.1002/fld.1528.
• Francheschini, S. and Tsai, C.W. (2008). “Incorporating reliability into the definition of the margin of safety in total maximum daily load calculations.” ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 134(1), 34-44.
• Bhowmik, N.G., Tsai, C. W., Parmar P., and Demissie, M. (2008). “A case study: application of the HEC-6 model for the main stem of the Kankakee River in Illinois.” ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 134(4), 355-366.

last updated: 2/09