Ismail Haltas

Ismail Haltas, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, graduated from Middle East Technical University Ankara with a BS degree in Civil Engineering. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with MS and PhD degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2004 and 2006, respectively. After working as a Water Resources Engineer in Sacramento, California for four years, he started teaching in Civil Engineering Department of Zirve University in Turkey. During his five-year tenure at Zirve University, he conducted several research projects funded by National Research Agencies while teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses. Before joining to King’s College, Dr. Haltas held a Senior Research Fellow post at Cranfield University, England for two years. He has held the Professional Engineer License in Civil Engineering in California since 2010. His expertise and research focus are flood hazard and risk modelling, scaling in hydraulic and hydrologic processes, and agent-based modelling of complex systems. He mainly teaches courses such as Fluid Mechanics, Dynamics, Hydraulics and Hydrology, Probability and Statistics, and Water Resources Engineering.

Companies

• Assistant Professor King's College (2018)
• Senior Research Fellow Cranfield University - Cranfield School of Management (2016 — 2018)
• Associate Professor Zirve University (2013 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor Zirve University (2010 — 2013)
• Engineer Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (2006 — 2010)
• Research Assistant J. Amorocho Hydraulics Laboratory (2002 — 2006)

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Davis (2002 — 2006)
• Bachelor Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University (1997 — 2002)
• High School Diploma Ankara Anatolian High School (1990 — 1994)

Articles In Journals

• Haltas I, Suckling J, Soutar I, Druckman A & Varga L (2017) Anaerobic digestion: a prime solution for water, energy and food nexus challenges, Energy Procedia, 123 22-29.
• Haltas I, Elçi S & Tayfur G (2016) Numerical simulation of flood wave propagation in two-dimensions in densely populated urban areas due to dam break, Water Resources Management, 30 (15) 5699-5721.
• Haltas I, Tayfur G & Elçi S (2016) Two-dimensional numerical modeling of flood wave propagation in an urban area due to ürkmez dam-break, İzmir, Turkey, Natural Hazards, 81 (3) 2103-2119.
• Haltas I & Ulusoy S (2015) Scaling and scale invariance of conservation laws in Reynolds transport theorem framework, Chaos, 25 (7).
• Ercan A, Kavvas ML & Haltas I (2014) Scaling and self-similarity in one-dimensional unsteady open channel flow, Hydrological Processes, 28 (5) 2721-2737.
• Haltas I (2012) Calculating the macrodispersion coefficient of the ensemble averaged solute transport equation in the discrete domain., Hydrological Processes, 26 (22) 3448-3458.
• Haltas I & Kavvas ML (2011) Scale Invariance and Self-Similarity in Kinematic Wave Overland Flow in Space and Time, Hydrological Processes, 25 (23) 3659-3665.
• Haltas I & Kavvas ML (2010) Scale Invariance and Self-Similarity in Hydrologic Processes in Space and Time, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16 (1).
• Haltas I & Kavvas ML (2009) Modeling the kinematic wave parameters with regression methods, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 14 (10).
• Haltas I & Kavvas ML (2009) Ensemble-Averaged Flow Routing in Channel Networks: Kinematic Wave Equation, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 14 (7).

Conference Papers

• Haltas I, Falconer R, Suckling J, Soutar I & Varga L (2017) Recycling water, energy and food by anaerobic digestion. In: Cranfield Science for a Circular Economy. How to tackle the Water, Energy, Food nexus, Cranfield University, 16 June 2017.
• Falconer R, Haltas I, Gilmour D & Varga L. (2017) Decision Making Tools: computational modelling and interactive visualisation. In: Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 2017 International Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 4-7 September 2017.
• Haltas I & Demir I (2014) Toward A Flood Information System (TABİS) For Turkey. In: 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, New York, 17 August 2014.
• Ercan A, Kavvas ML & Haltas I (2013) Self-similarity in one-dimensional unsteady open channel flow through rectangular channels of varying width. In: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2013: Showcasing the Future, Cincinnati, Ohio, 19 May 2013.
• Haltas I & Kavvas ML (2011) Scale invariance and self-similarity in hydrologic processes in space and time. In: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011: Bearing Knowledge for Sustainability, Palm Springs, California, 22-26 May 2011.
• Haltas I (2010) Calculating the macrodispersion coefficient in the stochastic transport equation. In: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change, Providence, Rhode Island, 16-20 May 2010.
• Haltas I (2009) Modeling the kinematic wave parameters with regression methods. In: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers, Kansas City, Missouri, 17-21 May 2009.
• Haltas I (2008) Ensemble averaged flow routing in large channel networks: Kinematic wave equation. In: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua''A, Honolulu, Hawaii, 12-16 May 2008.

Books

• Haltas I & Kavvas ML (2012) Scale invariance and self-similarity in kinematic overland flow in space and time. In: Overland Flow and Surface Runoff. Tommy S. W. Wong (ed.), Nova Science, p. 1-14.