Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of South Carolina
Dr. Mohamed R. Torkomany, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina.
Dr. Torkomany is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Water Resources Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina. He mainly works in investigating dam breaching events and analyzing the associated impacts on the upstream reservoir, the dam failure time and peak breach discharge, and the downstream floodplain. Dr. Torkomany took his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Alexandria University, Egypt in 2011. From 2012 to 2018, he was a teaching assistant at the Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulics Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. He completed his M.Sc. in modeling unsteady flow in distributary channels in 2017. He developed numerical models for modeling unsteady flow conditions under rotational irrigation systems. In 2018, Dr. Torkomany won a Ph.D. scholarship at the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, funded by the Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt. In his Ph.D., he investigated the optimum design of water distribution networks using optimization techniques. He developed several optimization frameworks mainly based on the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. He addressed several economic, resilience, and environmental objectives for water distribution network designs. Dr. Torkomany was awarded his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2021. From 2021 to 2023, he worked as an assistant professor at the Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulics Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. Dr. Torkomany has research articles on modeling unsteady flow in irrigation canals and water distribution systems designs. He reviewed several research articles about modeling urban water and drainage systems and using artificial intelligence as surrogate models. In August 2023, he joined the water resources group at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina. His current focus is on modeling breaching events for dams and levees and modeling urban flood drainage systems.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM CT