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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Vladimir Nikora is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, as well as Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows.

The main subfields of Nikora's work include Computational Mechanics, Ecology, Civil and Structural Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their studies frequently address topics such as hydraulic flow and structures, plant water relations, carbon dynamics, fish ecology and management, and aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior.

Key publication venues for Nikora's research include the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress, and the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. These venues have featured multiple papers reflecting their ongoing research contributions.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Vladimir Nikora are:

  • "Secondary currents and very-large-scale motions in open-channel flow over streamwise ridges" (2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • "Entrainment of sediment particles by very large-scale motions" (2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • "Flow development in rough-bed open channels: mean velocities, turbulence statistics, velocity spectra, and secondary currents" (2022, Journal of Hydraulic Research)
  • "Momentum and energy transfer in open-channel flow over streamwise ridges" (2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • "Ecological Connectivity of River-Lake Ecosystem: Evidence From Fish Population Dynamics in a Connecting Channel" (2024, Water Resources Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nikora include:

  • Andrea Zampiron
  • Stuart Cameron
  • Sébastien Proust
  • Céline Berni
  • Saiyu Yuan

Their work displays a multidisciplinary approach traversing mechanics, ecological processes, and hydraulic engineering.

Vladimir Nikora has been recognized by professional institutions, having been awarded Fellow status at the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011 and at the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Despiking Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter Data

    D. Goring;Vladimir Ivanovich Nikora

  • Spatially Averaged Open-Channel Flow over Rough Bed

    Vladimir Ivanovich Nikora;Vladimir Ivanovich Nikora;Vladimir Ivanovich Nikora;D. Goring;D. Goring;D. Goring;Ian Kenneth McEwan;Ian Kenneth McEwan;Ian Kenneth McEwan;G. Griffiths;G. Griffiths;G. Griffiths

  • Double-Averaging Concept for Rough-Bed Open-Channel and Overland Flows: Theoretical Background

    Vladimir Ivanovich Nikora;Ian Kenneth McEwan;Stephen McLean;Stephen Coleman

  • Flow Turbulence over Fixed and Weakly Mobile Gravel Beds

    Vladimir Nikora;Derek Goring

  • Linking scales of flow variability to lotic ecosystem structure and function

    Barry J. F. Biggs;Vladimir I. Nikora;Ton H. Snelder

  • Subsidy and stress responses of stream periphyton to gradients in water velocity as a function of community growth form

    Barry J. F. Biggs;Derek G. Goring;Vladimir I. Nikora

  • ADV Measurements of Turbulence: Can We Improve Their Interpretation?

    Vladimir I. Nikora;Derek G. Goring

  • Hydrodynamics of aquatic ecosystems: An interface between ecology, biomechanics and environmental fluid mechanics

    V. Nikora

  • On gravel-bed roughness characterization

    Vladimir I. Nikora;Derek G. Goring;Barry J. F. Biggs

  • Statistical properties of armored gravel bed surfaces

    J. Aberle;V.I. Nikora

  • Double-Averaging Concept for Rough-Bed Open-Channel and Overland Flows: Applications

    Vladimir Ivanovich Nikora;Stephen McLean;Stephen Coleman;Dubravka Pokrajac

  • On bed particle diffusion in gravel bed flows under weak bed load transport

    Vladimir Nikora;Helmut M. Habersack;Thomas Huber;Ian McEwan

  • Velocity Distribution in the Roughness Layer of Rough-Bed Flows

    Vladimir Nikora;Katinka Koll;Ian McEwan;Stephen McLean

  • Turbulence structure of open channel flows over permeable and impermeable beds : A comparative study

    Costantino Manes;Dubravka Pokrajac;Ian McEwan;Vladimir Nikora

  • Hydraulic Resistance due to Aquatic Vegetation in Small Streams: Field Study

    Vladimir Nikora;Scott Larned;Nina Nikora;Koustuv Debnath

  • Effects of bed material properties on cohesive sediment erosion

    J. Aberle;Vladimir Ivanovich Nikora;R. Walters

  • Effects of fish size, time‐to‐fatigue and turbulence on swimming performance: a case study of Galaxias maculatus

    Vladimir Ivanovich Nikora;J. Aberle;B. J. F. Biggs;I. Jowett

  • Turbulence Characteristics of New Zealand Gravel-Bed Rivers

    V. I. Nikora;G. M. Smart

  • Fractal Structures of River Plan Forms

    Vladimir I. Nikora

  • Origin of the “ − 1 ” Spectral Law in Wall-Bounded Turbulence

    Vladimir Nikora

  • STATE-OF-THE-ART PAPERS 19 Eco-hydraulics and eco-sedimentation studies in China / ZHAOYIN WANG, JOSEPH H.W. LEE AND MENGZHEN XU 33 Flow resistance of emergent rigid and flexible floodplain vegetation /

    Spis Treci;Jochen Aberle;Juha Järvelä;Fabio Siniscalchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry J. F. Biggs
Barry J. F. Biggs National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Bruce W. Melville
Bruce W. Melville University of Auckland
Scott T. Larned
Scott T. Larned National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Beth E. Scott
Beth E. Scott University of Aberdeen
Marian Muste
Marian Muste University of Iowa
Marcelo H. Garcia
Marcelo H. Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alexander N. Sukhodolov
Alexander N. Sukhodolov Leibniz Association
Robert Ettema
Robert Ettema Colorado State University
Bernhard Statzner
Bernhard Statzner Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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