Environmental fluid mechanics (buoyant and non-buoyant turbulent jets); stratified flows; slurry jets and plumes, hydraulics of fishways; urban hydraulics; hydraulics of lakes; debris flows ; laser doppler anemometry, habitat structures , high velocity jets and erosion.

• Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1963. Dissertation entitled 'Studies on Hydraulic Jumps'.
• Master of Science (Hydraulic Engineering), University of Madras, India, 1958.
• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (Honours), University of Madras, India, 1957.

• 1967-1971 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
• 1966 - 1967 Assistant Professor
• 1965 - 1966 Sessional Lecturer
• 1963 - 1965 Post-doctoral Fellow
• 1960 - 1963 Senior Scientific Officer (CBIP Projects), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• 1959 - 1960 Senior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• 1958 - 1959 Junior Engineer, Irrigation Research Station, Poondi, Madras, India.

• Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
• American Society of Civil Engineering
• International Association for Hydraulic Research
• Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta

e-mail: raj@maligne.civil.ualberta.ca

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