Mohamed Ghidaoui received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D.

all in Civil Engineering from

the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1989, 1991, and 1993, respectively. Since July 1993,
he has been with the Department of Civil Engineering at the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology (HKUST) where he is an Associate Professor. His research
interests include modeling of surface water flows and water hammer: unsteady friction in
conduits, turbulence modeling of fast transients, flow stability of time-dependent flows and
turbulent shallow shear flow, numerical modeling of surface and closed conduit flows, and
application of Bolzmann theory in hydraulics. He is a member of the International
Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR) and the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE). He is a founding member of IAHR-Hong Kong and currently serves as its
president. He is an Asso- ciate Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Research and an
advisory board member of the Journal of Hydroinformatics. His awards include the Albert
Berry Memorial Award, Ameri- can Water Works Association; runner-up for the Hilgard
Award for best paper, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering; and Teaching Excellence Awards,
School of Engineering, HKUST.

Ming Zhao obtained his Ph.D. in April 2004 from the Department of Civil Engineering, at
Hong Kong University of Science and Technolgy. He obtained both his B.A.Eng. in hydraulic
engineering and B.A.Sc. in eneterprise management in 1999 from Tsinghua University. His
research interests include numerical simulation of unsteady pipe flows, open channel flows,
turbulence modeling in hydraulics, and stability analysis for fluid flows.

David H. Axworthy is a registered professional engineer with a consulting engineering firm

in Los Angeles, California. He obtained his B.A.Sc. (1991), M.A.Sc. (1993) and Ph.D. (1997)
in civil engineering from the University of Toronto. Axworthy has analyzed pressure transients created by the operation of pump stations and valves and designed surge protection
for water supply, wastewater, fire protection, deicing, diesel, and jet fuel systems. A member
of the ASCE and AWWA, Axworthy is coauthor of a water hammer analysis model (TransAM), serves as a reviewer for the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, and has published
scientific papers in the area of pipe network transients.

Duncan A. McInnis (Ph.D., P.Eng., MHKIE) has degrees in environmental biology and
civil engineering. He has 20 years of scientific and professional engineering experience in
com- putational hydraulics, simulation, and computer modeling of surface water and
pipeline systems. McInnis has been a Lecturer of Civil Engineering and Senior Project
Manager at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is currently the
Manager of Water Resources with Komex International Ltd., an international
environmental consulting firm.