Zbigniew J. Kabala
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Kabala teaches currently the following courses: Fluid Mechanics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, and Groundwater Hydrology. He enjoys his interactions with students in and outside of class. He has served as a faculty in residence (FIR) in Southgate, Giles, and West House dormitories for a number of years. Dr. Kabala also works with Pioneer Academics to mentor high school students from around the world and recruit some of them to Duke. He is an avid member of Toastmasters International and a sponsor of the PRATTically Speaking Toastmasters club in PRATT School of Engineering, where he hones his public speaking skills and helps students and postdocs do the same.
Dr. Kabala follows politics with great passion and occasionally writes about it. In his free time, he enjoys racquet and water sports, hiking, reading, and listening to jazz.
Current Research Interests
Dr. Kabala's principal research interests cover stochastic and deterministic theory of fluid flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media, theory of related measurements, field and laboratory studies in subsurface hydrology, stochastic fields and processes, numerical and analytical methods and sensitivity analysis. His current research focuses on developing new measurement techniques for characterization of porous media, recovering contaminant release histories from current plume observations, and stochastic modeling of water and solute transport in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous formations.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2001
Contact Information
- Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708-0287
- CIEMAS 2467, Durham, NC 27708
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zbigniew.kabala@duke.edu
(919) 660-5479
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