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Authors
Abdul A. Khan, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Glenn Department
of Civil Engineering at Clemson University (South Carolina). He received
a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. After his
Ph.D., Dr. Khan worked at the National Center for Computational
Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Mississippi, before mov-
ing to Clemson University. He has been working in the area of compu-
tational modeling of river hydraulics, dam-break ows, and sediment
transport for the past 20 years. He has published close to 50 journal
articles related to his research work and several papers on river ood
and dam-break o