Chris Huxley

Chris is a Principal Engineer for BMT (the developers of TUFLOW) with over 20 years’ experience in the field of flood / stormwater modelling and floodplain management. Chris is an expert in the field of hydraulic modelling. He is a senior member of the TUFLOW hydraulic modelling software development team, was an Adjunct Lecturer at Central Queensland University where he taught hydraulic modelling from 2018 to 2022. He is also a regular guest lecturer on applied hydraulic modelling at numerous Universities in Australia and the USA. In 2022 Chris was the Hydraulics Scientific Committee Chairperson for the Institute of Engineers, Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium.

Prior to his current role in software Chris worked in consulting and successfully completed and/or managed numerous studies throughout Queensland and New South Wales, Australia and California, USA. Studies that Chris led addressed a diverse range of factors: including stormwater management; infrastructure design; flood risk management; flood mitigation; land use development planning and approvals and emergency response planning.

Involved in:

• How to benchmark your hydraulic solver (March 2024)
• Flood modelling 101
• Real-time flood forecasting (November 2023)
• Integrated catchment and receiving water modelling (October 2023)
• Flood modelling quality control (October 2022)
• Urban pipe network modelling (February 2022)
• Maximising the Accuracy of Hydraulic Models (June 2021)
• Hydraulic model calibration to historical events (April 2021)
• The importance of 2D cell size for accurate hydraulic modelling (November 2020)
• Webinar: Flood Modelling in the Cloud (February 2019)