Curriculum Vitae Anton PURNAMA Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, PO Box 36 Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod PC 123, Muscat, Oman Email: antonp@squ.edu.om Tel. +(968) 24141428, Fax +(968)24411435 Higher Education B.A. (Hons), University of Cambridge, UK Certificate of Advanced Study, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK Ph.D., Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge, UK Professional Experience NERC Water Resource Systems Research Unit, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, UK Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman Elected to the Leadership Team of the IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Marine Outfall Systems Steering Committee, SQU Water Research Center Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) Project Advisory Committee for the research project IO 4: Survey of Existing Models and Development of Improved Simulation for Discharged Brine Dispersion; and evaluated 3 project proposals submitted for funding by MEDRC Refereed manuscripts submitted for possible publication in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics; Journal of Hydraulic Engineering; Desalination; Journal of Environmental Management; Desalination and Water Treatment; Resources, Conservation and Recycling; Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Journal of Hydro-Environment Research; SQU Journal for Science; African Journal of Biotechnology; International Journal of Physical Sciences; International Journal of Environment and Waste Management; International Journal of Water; and Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research. Reviewed abstracts submitted for possible contributed oral presentation in the International Water Week Amsterdam 2015 Conference (The Netherlands); 36 th IAHR World Congress (Delft-The Haque); and World Water Congress & Exhibition 2014 (Lisbon, Portugal). Conference/Workshop Organization Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization (NAO2008), Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, April 6 8, 2008 MEDRC Workshop on Brine Discharge Management, Muscat, Oman, November 3 4, 2008 Second Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization (NAOII2011), Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, January 3 6, 2011 Third Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization (NAOIII2014), Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, January 5 9, 2014
International Conference on Desalination, Environment and Marine Outfall Systems, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, April 13 16, 2014 Grant and Contract Support SQU Internal Research Grant (IG/SCI/DOMS/14/01) Model Studies for Brine Discharges through Marine Outfall Systems SQU Internal Research Grant (IG/SCI/DOMS/11/12) On the Behaviour of a Family of Damped Quasi Newton Methods for Unconstraint Optimization SQU Internal Research Grant (IG/SCI/DOMS/10/11) Hydraulic Model of Brine Discharge from Desalination Plants SQU Internal Research Grant (IG/DVC/WRC/10/01) Integrated Urban Water Management in Great Muscat PDO funded Research (AS/ENG/CIVL/09/02) Three Dimensional Modelling of Effluent Disposal by Marine Outfall at Minal al Fahal MEDRC funded Research (07 AS 003) Environmental Planning, Prediction and Management of Brine Discharges from Desalination Plants SQU Internal Research Grant (IG/SCI/DOMS/05/07) Modelling Studies of Brine Waste Disposal into the Arabian Gulf SQU Internal Research Grant (IG/SCI/DOMS/02/20) Modelling Underground Flow in the Jabal Samhan Karst Aquifers, Dhofar SQU Internal Research Grant (IG/AGR/DOSW/99/14) Investigation of the Groundwater Quality in Selected Agricultural Areas of Oman SQU Internal Research Grant (IG/SCI/DOMS/99/15) Model Studies for Brine Water Disposal from Coastal Desalination Plants of Oman US NSF Grant (No. 0002022 under the International Program) Modelling Heterogenous Aquifers UK NERC funded Research (RACS 350) The Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) under the Special Topic Awards for the River Atmosphere Coast Study Project on Water, Salt and Fine Sediment Transport in the Humber UK EPRSC funded Research (RES13590) Mixing Associated with Intermittently-Pumped Outfall Discharges in Coastal Flows UK Nirex Ltd funded Research on Simulating Radionuclide Transport from the Geosphere to the Biosphere Publications Purnama, A. (1988) The Effect of Dead Zones on Longitudinal Dispersion in Streams, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 186: 351 377 Purnama, A. (1988) Boundary Retention Effects upon Contaminant Dispersion in Parallel Flows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 195: 393 412 Purnama, A. (1995) The Dispersion of Chemically Active Solutes in Parallel Flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 290: 263 277 Smith, R. & Purnama, A. (1999) Two Outfalls in an Estuary: Optimal Wasteload Allocation, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 35: 273 283 Purnama, A. & Kay, A. (1999) Effluent Discharges into Tidal Waters: Optimal or Economic Strategy?, Environmetrics, 10: 601 624 Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2000) Simple Monte Carlo Cellular Models for Surface Evolution, SQU Journal of Science and Technology, 5: 77 84 Al Barwani, H.H., Al Lawatia, M., Balakrishnan, E. & Purnama, A. (2000) Modeling Flow and Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media: A Review, SQU Journal of Science and Technology, Special Review: 265 280
Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H. & Al Lawatia, M. (2003) Modeling Dispersion of Brine Waste Discharges from a Coastal Desalination Plant, Desalination, 155: 41 47 Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H., Al Rawahi, M.S. & Al Harthi, T.M. (2004) Dispersion Models for Brine Discharges from Desalination Plants of Oman, Kuwait Journal of Science and Engineering, 31: 1 13 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2004) Some Criteria to Minimize the Impact of Brine Discharge into the Sea, Desalination, 171: 167 172 Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2005) The Effect of the Beach Profile on Dispersion of Brine Waste Discharges, International Journal of Management and Systems, 21: 1 14 Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H. & Smith, R. (2005) Calculating the Environmental Cost of Seawater Desalination in the Arabian Marginal Seas, Desalination, 185:79 86 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2005) Near Shore Outfall Plumes on Eroding Beaches, Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1(2): 163 172 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2006) Spreading of Brine Waste Discharges into the Gulf of Oman, Desalination, 195:26 31 Smith, R., Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2007) Sensitivity of Hypersaline Arabian Gulf to Seawater Desalination Plants, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 31:2347 2354 Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2007) Re-assessing the Impact of Desalination Plants Brine Discharges on Eroding Beaches, Desalination, 204:94 101 Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2008) Simulating Brine Plumes Discharged into the Seawaters, Desalination, 221:608 613 Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2008) Evaluating the Effect of Producing Desalinated Seawater on Hypersaline Arabian Gulf, European Journal of Scientific Research, 22:279 285 Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2009) Analytical Solutions for Brine Discharge Plumes on a Sloping Beach, Desalination and Water Treatment, 11:2 6 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2010) A Model Study of Desalination and Hypersalinity of the Arabian Gulf, Desalination and Water Treatment, 18: 80 85 Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H., Bleninger, T. & Doneker, R.L. (2011) CORMIX Simulations of Brine Discharges from Barka Plants, Oman, Desalination and Water Treatment, 32: 329 338 Purnama, A. (2012) Merging Effluent Discharge Plumes from Multiport Diffusers on a Sloping Beach, Applied Mathematics, 3: 80 85 Al Baali, M. & Purnama, A. (2012) Numerical Experience with Damped Quasi Newton Optimization Methods when the Objective Function is Quadratic, SQU Journal for Science, 17(1): 1 11 Purnama, A., Baawain, M.S. & Sarma, Y.V.B. (2012) Optimizing a Submerged Outfall Design through CORMIX Simulations, Journal of Science, Technology and Environmental, 2(1):71 78 Purnama, A. (2013) Far-field Model for Desalination Brine Discharges to the Ocean through a Multiport Diffuser, Development and Applications of Oceanic Engineering, 2(4):87 93 Purnama, A. (2014) Effluent Discharges from Two Outfalls on a Sloping Beach, Applied Mathematics, 5: 3117 3126 Purnama, A. & Shao, D.D. (2015) Modeling Brine Discharge Dispersion from Two Adjacent Desalination Outfalls in Coastal Waters, Desalination, 362: 68 73 Shao, D.D., Purnama, A. & Sun, T. (2015) Modelling Temporal Evolution of Dredging Induced Turbidity in Far Field, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. DOI: 10-1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000295, 1 8 Journals Guest Editor M. Al-Baali & A. Purnama (2012) SQU Journal for Science, volume 17(1), Special Issue on Numerical Optimization. M. Al-Baali & A. Purnama (2012) SQU Journal for Science, volume 17(2), Special Issue on Numerical Analysis. Books Edited
M.S. Baawain, B.S. Choudri, M. Ahmed & A. Purnama (Eds.) (2015) Recent Progress in Desalination, Environmental and Marine Outfall Systems, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 330 pp. M. Al-Baali, L. Grandinetti & A. Purnama (Eds.) (2015) Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, Volume 134, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 343 pp. Chapters in Books Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2006) Brine Waste Disposal Plumes in Coastal Waters, In A. Badawi, M. Anabtawi, D.F. Anderson & S. Elaydi (Eds.) Mathematics Research at the Leading Edge, Nova Science Publisher, New York, USA Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2008) Brine Discharges from Two Coastal Desalination Plants, In D.J. Delgado & P. Moreno (Eds.) Desalination Research Progress, Nova Science Publisher, New York, USA Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2011) The Hypersaline Gulf: A Model Study of Potential Impacts of Seawater Desalination on the Marine Environment, In A.D. Nemeth (Ed.) The Marine Environment: Ecology, Management and Conservation, Nova Science Publisher, New York, USA Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2011) A Computational Model Study of Brine Discharges from Seawater Desalination Plants at Barka, In R.Y. Ning (Ed.) Expanding Issues in Desalination, InTech Open Access Publisher, Rijeka, Croatia Purnama, A. (2015). Environmental Quality Standards for Brine Discharge from Desalination Plants, In M.S. Baawain, B.S. Choudri, M. Ahmed, and A. Purnama (Eds.) Recent Progress in Desalination, Environmental and Marine Outfall Systems, Springer International Publishing Switzerland Purnama, A., Baawain, M.S. & Shao, D.D. (2015). Mixing Zone Analysis of Surface Brine Discharges in Coastal Waters, In Seawater Desalination: Potential Uses, Technologies and Impact on the Environment, Nova Science Publisher, New York, USA Technical Reports Purnama, A. & Bathurst, J.C. (1992) Basis for the Ground Surface and Stream Channel Radionuclide Transport Components of the Catchment Modelling System SHETRAN UK, Including a Review of Sorption, Nirex Safety Series R232, UK Nirex Ltd., 136 pp (Commercial In Confidence) Purnama, A. & Bathurst, J.C. (1992) A Review of Three Features of Sediment Transport in Stream Channels: Dynamics of Cohesive Sediment, Infiltration of Transported Sediment into the Bed, and Stream Bank Erosion, Nirex Safety Series R233, UK Nirex Ltd., 122 pp (Commercial In Confidence) Bleninger, T., Jirka, G.H., Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H., Doneker, R.L., Lattemann, S., Hopner, T. & Brunken Winkler, H. (2009) Environmental Planning, Prediction and Management of Brine Discharges from Seawater Desalination Plants, MEDRC Series of R&D Report, Project No. 07 AS 003, MEDRC, Oman, 237 pp Baawain, M.S., Purnama, A., Sarma, Y.V.B., Al Hashmi, K., Al Haddabi, M. & Mothershaw, D.S. (2010) Three Dimensional Modelling of Effluent Disposal by Marine Outfall at Minal Al Fahal, Final Report, Project Code AS/ENG/CIVL/09/02, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 56 pp (Commercial In Confidence) Thesis Purnama, A. (1988) Contaminant Spreading in Composite Flows, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK, 93 pp Popular Articles Al Baali, M. & Purnama, A. (2008) The Numerical World, Horizon, SQU, Issue 134, 10 April 2008
Bleninger, T., Lattemann, S., Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H., Doneker, R.L. & Jirka, G.H. (2009) BrineDis Environmental Planning, Prediction, and Management of Brine Discharges from Seawater Desalination Plants, Arab Water World, vol. XXXIII (4): 6 10 Al-Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2010) Seawater Desalination in Oman, Horizon, SQU, Issue 200, 24 October 2010 Conference Proceedings Bathurst, J.C. & Purnama, A. (1991) Design and Application of a Sediment and Contaminant Transport Modelling System, In N.E. Peters & D.E. Walling (Eds.) Sediment and Stream Water Quality in a Charging Environment: Trends and Explanation, International Association Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Publ. No. 203, Wallingford, UK Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2003) Modeling Studies for Dispersion of Brine Discharges from Coastal Desalination Plants of Oman, Proc. 7 th Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo, Egypt, March 11 12, 2003 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2003) The Effect of Sloping Beaches upon Dispersion of Sea Outfall Discharges, Proc. 7 th Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo, Egypt, March 11 12, 2003 Al Barwani, H.H. & Purnama, A. (2004) The Dispersion of Sea Outfall Plumes, Proc. 6 th Caribbean Conference on Fluid Dynamics, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, January 22 23, 2004 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2004) Modelling Sea Brine Wastewater Disposal Plumes, Proc. 2 nd Saudi Science Conference, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 15 17, 2004 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2004) A Model of Flow through Karstic Conduits Network, Proc. Science Conference 2004, Yemeni Scientific Research Foundation, Sana a, Republic of Yemen, October 11 13, 2004 Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H. & Smith, R. (2005) A Model for Estimating the Effect of Seawater Desalination in the Arabian Gulf, Proc. Second International Conference on Mathematical Sciences (ICM2004), United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, December 12 14, 2004 Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H. & Smith, R. (2005) Environmental Impact Modeling of Seawater Desalination Plants in the Red Sea, Proc. International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, August 22 26, 2005 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2006) Some Features of Suspended Sediment Transport in a Tidally Oscillating Flow, Proc. 11 th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, The Institution of Engineers Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 22 25, 2006 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2007) Far Field Model Simulation of Sea Outfall Plume, Proc. 9 th Asian Symposium on Visualization, The University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, June 4 8, 2007 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2008) Arrested Tracer Model for Longitudinal Dispersion in Rivers, Proc. 12 th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Daejeon, Korea, August 18 21, 2008 Al Barwani, H.H., Purnama, A., Bleninger, T. & Doneker, R.L. (2010) Brine Discharges from Barka Plants, Oman: A CORMIX Case Study, Proc. 2010 Asia Pacific Conference on Desalination and Water Reclamation, Qing Dao, China, June 22 25, 2010 Bleninger, T., Niepelt, A., Jirka, G.H., Lattemann, S., Purnama, A., Al Barwani, H.H. & Doneker, R.L. (2010) Environmental Hydraulics Framework of the Design of Discharges from Desalination Plants, In G.C. Christodoulou & A.I. Stamou (Eds.) Environmental Hydraulics, CRC Press/Balkema, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK Purnama, A., Baawain, M.S. & Sarma, Y.V.B. (2010) A CORMIX Model Study of an Effluent Plume from a Marine Outfall at Minal al Fahal, Proc. 2 nd International Conference on Coastal Zone Engineering and Management, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, November 1 3, 2010 Purnama, A., Baawain, M.S. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2010) Design Recommendations for a Marine Outfall at Minal al Fahal using CORMIX Simulations, Proc. 3 rd SQU JCCP Joint Symposium on
Environmental Challenges and Mitigation Approaches for Sustainable Development in the Oil and Gas Industry, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, December 19 20, 2010 Purnama, A. & Al Barwani, H.H. (2011) Modeling Brine Discharges from Multiple Marine Outfalls, Proc. International Symposium on Outfall Systems, Mar del Plata, Argentina, May 15 18, 2011 Purnama, A. (2011) Analytical Model for Brine Discharges from a Sea Outfall with Multiport Diffusers, Proc. International Conference on Environmental Systems Engineering and Technology, Paris, France, August 24 26, 2011 Purnama, A. (2012) CORMIX Simulations of Surface Brine Discharges: A Case Study, Proc. 2 nd International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 28 30, 2012 Purnama, A. (2013) Modelling the Far-field Effluent Plumes from a Multiport Diffuser, Proc. 35 th IAHR World Congress, Chengdu, China, September 8 13, 2013 Purnama, A., Baawain, M.S. & Shao, D.D. (2015) CORMIX Simulations of Dredged Sediment Discharges in Coastal Waters, Proc. 5 th International Conference on Estuaries and Coasts, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, November 2 4, 2015 Abstracts/Contributed Papers Purnama, A. (2015) Water Quality Modeling for Effluent Discharges from Two Sea Outfalls, 8 th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2015), Beijing, China, August 10-14, 2015 Purnama, A. (2014) Modelling Effluent Discharge Plumes on a Sloping Beach Using the Solutions of Advection Diffusion Equation with Multiple Point Sources, International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2014), Seoul, Korea, August 13-21, 2014 Purnama, A. (2013) Delayed Effect of Boundary Retention on Dispersion in Tube Flow, 19 th International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications (ICDEA2013), Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, May 26-30, 2013