Dr. M.F. Guan

Associate Professor (Water and Environmental Engineering)
Dr. M.F. Guan

BEng, Dalian University of Technology, China
PhD, University of Leeds, UK

 

 

Office: HW 6-10
Phone: +852 2859 1965
Fax: +852 2559 5337
E-mail: mfguan@hku.hk

 

Teaching Activities
  • CIVL 1105 Environmental Engineering
  • CIVL 2103 Fluid Mechanics
  • CIVL 2104 Hydraulics and Hydrology

 

Research Interests
  • Hydro-system modelling
  • Urban hydrology
  • Sustainable urban water system
  • Flood modelling
  • Computational hydraulics
  • River and coastal hydraulics
  • Sediment dynamics

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects
  • Effects of non-stationarity and spatiotemporal variability of extreme rainfall on flood responses, General Research Fund by Hong Kong Research Grant Council, PI, HK$1,132,781, 2024-2027.
  • Spatial upscaling effects of Blue-Green Infrastructures on urban stormwater runoff. General Research Fund (RGC), PI, HK$873,995, 2021-2023.
  • Physical and Numerical Modelling of Water Film Layer on Runway. Sub-consultancy project with Ove Arup Ltd, PI, HK$1,587,900, 2020-2021.
  • Evaluating multi-scale performance of attenuation ponds on stormwater runoff management in subtropical climate. Environment and Conservation Fund Project ref: 108/2019, PI, HK$470,000，2020.07-2022.06.
  • Smart approach to the prediction and management of coastal flooding in highly urbanised area, Early Career Scheme (RGC), PI, HK$408,115, 2020-2022.
  • Novel dynamic models for natural-dam failure floods and their mechanisms, NSFC grant, PI, HK$339120, 2020-2022.
  • Urban Resilience to Intense Rainfall and Surface Water Flooding, UK EPSRC Fellowship grant, PI, £331,632, termination.

 

Professional Activities
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology.
  • Scientific Editor of Journal of Mountain Science
  • Guest Editor for a special issue in Frontier in Earth Sciences
  • Invited grant reviewer for UK Natural Environment Research Council grant, UK Economics and Social Research Council grant, European Research Council synergy grant
  • Member of International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research
  • Member of College of UK EPSRC Associate Peer Reviewer
  • Invited reviewer for over 20 international SCI journals
  • Session Convenor of 2017 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, USA
  • Convenor of 2nd Rain, Rivers and Reservoirs at Edinburgh in September 2016

 

10 Selected Representative Publications(* = corresponding author)
  • Jie Yin, Yao Gao, Ruishan Chen, Dapeng Yu, Robert Wilby, Nigel Wright, Yong Ge, Jeremy Bricker, Huili Gong & Mingfu Guan*, 2023. Flash floods: why are more of them devastating the world’s driest regions? Nature, 615, 212-215.
  • Yan Haochen, Gao Yao, Wilby R., Yu D., Wright N., Yin J., Chen X., Chen J., Guan, M.*, 2024. Urbanization exacerbates intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes in a warming climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 51 (5), e2024GL108565.
  • Jie Yin*, Yuhan Yang, Dapeng Yu*, Ning Lin, Robert Wilby, Dandan Wang, Jeremy Bricker, Nigel Wright, Mingfu Guan*, 2024. Strategic flood evacuation planning facilitates effective transfer of vulnerable population in coastal megacities. Nature Water, 2 (3), 274-284.
  • Guan, M.*, Guo, K., Yan, H., Wright, N. 2023. Bottom-up multilevel flood hazard mapping by integrated inundation modelling in data scarce cities, Journal of Hydrology, 617(14).
  • Guo, K., Guan, M.* and Yu, D., 2021. Urban surface water flood modelling–a comprehensive review of current models and future challenges. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(5), pp.2843-2860.
  • Yan Haochen, Guan, M.*, Kong Y., 2023. Flood retention lakes in a rural-urban catchment: climate-dominated and configuration-affected performances, Water Resources Research, 59(8), e2022WR032911.
  • Guo Kaihua, Guan, M.*, Yan H., Xia X., 2023. A spatially distributed hydrodynamic model framework for urban flood hydrological and hydraulic processes involving drainage flow quantification, Journal of Hydrology, 625, 130135.
  • Kong, Y., Guan, M.*, 2023. Hydro-mechanical simulations aid demand-oriented design of slit dams for controlling debris flows, febris avalanches and rock avalanches. Engineering Geology, 326, 107314.
  • Guan M.*, N.G. Wright, P.A. Sleigh., S. Ahilan, R. Lamb, 2016. Physical complexity to model morphological changes at a natural channel bend. Water Resources Research, 52, 6348-6364.
  • Guan M.*, J.H.L. Carrivick, N.G. Wright, P.A. Sleigh, K. Staines, 2016. Quantifying the combined effects of multiple extreme floods on river channel geometry and on flood hazards. Journal of Hydrology, 538, 256-268.