Return to B. A. DeVantier's Home Page A. Born: May 10, 1953, Altamont, Illinois, USA.
B. Home Address: 177 Fairway Vista Road, Murphysboro, IL 62966
C. Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Southern Illinois University
B.S. Engineering, 1975,Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
M.S. Engineering, 1977, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Thesis: Analysis and Comparison of Five Integral Models for Cooling Tower Plume Prediction
PhD. Civil Engineering, 1983, University of California, Davis
Dissertation: A Finite Element Model for Density-Affected Flow in Secondary Sedimentation Basins
1984 Continuing faculty, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Southern Illinois University
1983-1984 Continuing faculty, Dept. of Thermal and Environmental Engineering, Southern Illinois University
1980-1983 Post Graduate Research Engineer, Civil Engineering Department, University of California, Davis
1979-1980 Instructor, Civil Engineering Department, University of California, Davis
1977-1979 Teaching Assistant, Civil Engineering Department, University of California, Davis
1977 Research Associate, Division of Environmental Impact Studies, Argonne National Laboratory
1999 National Research Council Summer Fellowship, US EPA, Cincinnati
1997 US Army COE, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Summer IPA
1995 Navy-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center
1993, 1994 NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, NASA Ames Research Center
1992 US Army COE, Construction Engineering Research Lab, Summer IPA
1992 Delft Hydraulics (Now Deltares), The Netherlands, One Semester Sabbatical Leave
1991 US Army COE, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Summer IPA
1987 Air Force Summer Faculty Research Program, Materials Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Professional Engineer, State of Illinois, #062-045249
A. Membership and Service in Professional Associations:
American Society of Civil Engineers, Member, Associate Editor Journal of Environmental Engineering
American Water Works Association, Member
National Society of Professional Engineers, ISPE Egyptian Chapter, President 2001-2,2011-14
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, SIUC Chapter President, 2000-2001
Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society, Charter Member and Current Chief Advisor,IL Epsilon Chapter
B. Evaluation of Manuscripts for Journals and Book Publishers:
Journals: Journal of Environmental Engineering, Journal of Hydraulics, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Book Publishers: PWS Kent, West Publishers, McGraw-Hill, Harper-Collins
A. Teaching Interests and Specialties:
Environmental Engineering, Numerical Methods, Finite Element Analysis
B. Courses Taught: Heat Transfer, Engineering Economics, Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Waste Treatment, Transport Phenomena, Hydrology, Strength of Materials, Numerical Methods, Advanced Numerical Methods, Finite Element Analysis, Water Resources Management, Environmental Biochemical Engineering, Drinking WaterTreatment
C. Number of Master's and PhD. Committees Served On:
Master's: Over 50
PhD.: 6
D. Number of Students Directed Completing Master's Theses and PhD. Dissertions:
Master's: 18
PhD. 2
A. Research Interests:
Soil Remediation, Drinking Water Quality, Numerical Modeling, Finite Elements
B. Current Funded Research Projects:
1. NATO: Development of a Sheet Flow Turbulence Model, 1993-96
2. NASA: Carbon Adsorption Process Modeling, 1995-1997
C. Research Grants Applied For: Over 40 proposals
D. Research Grants Received:
1. Illinois Mines and Minerals Research Institute
Turbulence Modeling for Sediment Detention Ponds, 1 year
2. SIU Materials Technology Center
Process Modeling of Composite Fabrication, 2 years
3. SIU Materials Technology Center
Intelligent Control of Carbon Fiber Spinning, 2 years
4. SIU Materials Technology Center
Modeling Mesophase Flow in Carbon Fiber Spinning, 2 years
5. Special Research Grant, SIU Office of Research Development
Study of Laboratory Measurements of Soil Air Permeability, 2 years
6. Universal Energy Systems
Expert System Control of Carbon Fiber Spinning, 1 year
7. Bureau of Mines Reclamation Center
Modeling of SoilWater Exchange for Coal Wastes, 2 years
8. Department of Agriculture
Facilitated Transport of Agricultural Chemicals, 2 years
9. NATO
Sheet Flow Turbulence Modeling, 3 years
10. NASA
Carbon Adsorption Process Modeling, 2 years
Policastro, A.J., Carhart, R.A., and DeVantier, B.A., "Validation of Selected Mathematical Models for Plume Dispersion from Natural Draft Cooling Towers," Proceedings Waste Heat Management and Utilization Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, May, 1977, pp. 78-95.
Schamber, D.R., Larock, B.E., and DeVantier, B.A., "Continuation Methods for the Finite Element Solution of Turbulent Flow," Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Finite Elements in Water Resources, Hanover, West Germany, June, 1982, pp. 323-332.
DeVantier, B.A., and Larock, B.E., "Modeling Density Driven Flow in a Sedimentation Basin," Proceedings Fifth Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems, Austin, Texas, 1984, pp. 385-390.
DeVantier, B.A., "Finite Element Modeling of Recirculating Flows," Proceedings of the ASCE Hydraulics Specialty Conference, Orlando, Florida, August, 1985, pp. 1340-1345.
DeVantier, B.A., and Narayanaswamy, R., "A k-epsilon Based Model for Sediment Transport," Proceedings Third International Symposium on River Sedimentation, Jackson, Mississippi, April, 1986, pp. 1407-1415.
DeVantier, B.A., and Ponce-Campos, C.D., "Process Modeling in CarbonCarbon Composites," Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference on Carbon, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, June, 1987.
DeVantier, B.A., "Turbulence Modeling in Environmental Engineering," Proceedings Environmental Pollution Control and Hazardous Waste Conference, Tainan, Republic of China, November, 1987, pp. 228-241.
Faghani-Shoja, S., DeVantier, B.A., Ray, B.T., and Cook, E.E., "Removal of Phenol in Mixed Substrate Form by a Fixed Film Process," Forty-third Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, May 1988, pp. 291-300.
DeVantier, B.A., and Norfleet, C.W., "Heat Transfer Modeling in the Autoclave Cure of Carbon Epoxy Composites," Recent Advances in Materials Research, April, 1989, pp.104-117.
Castro, G., and DeVantier, B.A., " Flow Modeling to Determine Stress Distribution in Carbon Fiber Spinneret," Materials Technology Center Sixth Annual Conference, April, 1990, pp. 42-49.
DeVantier, B.A., Ray, B.T., and Kulkarni, S., " Ground Water Transport of Metals from Coal Waste Leachate," Proceedings First Midwestern Region Reclamation Conference, July, 1990, pp. 2-1 - 2-7.
Lin, J.G., Ray, B.T., and DeVantier, B.A., "A Kinetic Model for Low Level Alkaline Solubilization for Enhanced Anaerobic Digestion," Forty-Fifth Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, May, 1990, pp. 409-416.
Castro, G., DeVantier, B.A., and Tlomak, P., " Flow Characterization of Carbon Fibers Spun from Mesophase Pitch," Materials Technology Center Seventh Annual Conference, April, 1991, pp. 17-34.
Husain, A., and DeVantier, B.A., "Finite Element Modeling of Air Flow in Soil," Forty-Sixth Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, May, 1991, pp. 25-32.
Ray, B.T., Davis, J.M., DeVantier, B.A., Brady, M.P., and Chandwani, A., "A Study of Facilitated Transport of Agricultural Chemicals by Colloidal Materials," Illinois Groundwater Consortium Conference, Springfield, IL, April 28, 1992, pp. 99-114.
DeVantier, B.A. and van Rijn, L.C., "Effect of Basic Mud Parameters on Computed Concentration and Transport Rates," Invited Paper, Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering, ASCE, Washington, D.C., June, 1993, pp. 630-637.
Rijn, L.C. van, and DeVantier, B.A., "2-D Vertical and 3-D Modeling of Sediment Transport in Tidal Flows," Invited Paper, Proceedings of Hydraulic Engineering '93, Vol. 2, July, 1993, pp. 2135-2140.
DeVantier, B.A., "Numerical Modeling of CVI," Materials Technology Center Ninth Annual Conference, Oct., 1993, pp. 105-114.
DeVantier, B.A., and Hoeppel, R., "Flow Modeling for Vacuum Assisted Free LNAPL Removal, A.K.A. Bioslurping," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference: Advanced Technology in the Environmental Field, May, 1996, pp. 13-16.
Esling, S., DeVantier, B.A., and McDonald, T., “An Investigation of Temporal Changes in Soil Permeability Within the Vadose Zone of Areas Inundated by Floods,” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference, Illinois , Carbondale, Illinois, April, 1-2, 1998, pp. 186-201.
DeVantier, B.A., and Larock, B.E., "Sediment Transport in Stratified Turbulent Flow," Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 109, Dec. 1983, pp. 162-235.
DeVantier, B.A., and Larock, B.E., "Finite Element Modeling of a Density Driven Turbulent Flow," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 6, 1986, pp. 241-253.
DeVantier, B.A., and Larock, B.E., "Modeling Sediment Induced Density Currents in Sedimentation Basins," Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 113, January, 1987, pp. 80-94.
DeVantier, B.A., "Comparison of Primitive Variables and Stream Function, Vorticity for FEM Depth Averaged Flow Modeling," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 9, No. 11, November, 1989, pp. 1369-1379.
DeVantier, B.A., and Narayanaswamy, R., "A Suspended Sediment Flow Model for High Solids Concentration Using Higher Order Turbulence Closure," Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 12, No.1 March, 1989, pp. 46-52.
DeVantier, B.A. and Feldman, A.D., "Review of GIS Applications in Hydrologic Modeling," Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, Vol. 119, ,No. 2, 1993, pp. 246-261.
DeVantier, B.A., Discussion of "Calculating Flow in Manifold and Orifice System," Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, vol. 119, No. 5, 1993, pp. 999-1000.
Rodeck, S.A., DeVantier, B.A., and Das, B.M., "Air Permeability Measurement for Soil at Low and High Pressure," Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, vol. 120, No. 5, 1994, pp. 1337-1343.
Stylianou, C., and DeVantier, B.A., "Relative Air Permeability as a Function of Saturation in Soil Venting," Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, vol. 121, No. 4, 1995, pp. 337-347.
Sinha, N., Rodeck, S.A., Omar, M. T., DeVantier, B.A., and Das, B.M., "Soil Air
Permeability: Threshold Gradient and Anisotropy," ASTM Geotechnical Testing
Journal, Vol. 18, No.4, December, 1995, pp. 483-492.
DeVantier, B.A., and Finn, J., “Discrete Dispersion Relations and Taylor-Galerkin FEM for Transport of Dispersed Fronts,” Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 1997, Vol. 9, pp. 59-70.
DeVantier, B.A., and Larock, B.E., "Computation of Coupled Turbulent Flow and Sediment Transport," Book chapter, Finite Elements in Fluids, Volume 5, John Wiley and Sons, 1985, pp. 215-226.
DeVantier, B.A., Meijer, K., and van Rijn, L.C., Analytical Solutions Comparison and Sensitivity Analysis: SUSTIM 3-D Model, Delft Hydraulics Publication, July, 1992.