Ali Keyvani

Ali Keyvani is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston. His work focuses on sediment dynamics in transitional environments between rivers and marine systems, particularly examining flocculation processes, settling velocity equations, and hydroacoustic monitoring techniques.

• Email: akeyvanighamsari2@uh.edu
• Office: N107 Engineering Building 1, Houston, TX 77204-4003
• Phone: 713-743-4250

Research Interests include:

• Sediment flocculation under variable shear conditions
• Hydroacoustic measurement of suspended particles
• Settling velocity modeling for cohesive sediments
• River-mouth plume dynamics and deposition
• Environmental fluid mechanics applications

Scientific Contributions span studies on:

• Mud aggregation in turbulent shear fields
• Instrumentation challenges in floc size measurement
• Sediment yield analysis in river systems