Mohamed Abdel Hamid M. Gad

Professor at Irrigation and Hydraulics

Career Information

Academic Information

Brief

PhD Civil Engineering (Hydroinformatics), McMaster University, Canada, 2003.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/6153

MSc Civil Engineering, (Hydrology/Hydraulics), Ain Shams University, Egypt, 1996.
“Hydrology of Wadies in Sinai”

BSc Civil Engineering (Irrig./Hydraulics), Ain Shams University, Egypt, 1992.


Research mainly focuses on adapting scientific approaches from different fields to develop methodologies for solving environmental, earth/atmospheric, and water resources problems. The research interests include geographic information systems (GIS) applications in civil and environmental engineering; ldistributed hydrologic modeling; surface and groundwater modeling; atmospheric circulations; bridge hydrodynamic/scour analysis; image processing techniques; remote sensing; optimization algorithms; design and operation of dams and water resources systems; water resources management, engineering applications of statistics and geo-statistics; hydrodynamics and sediment transport; environmental hydraulics & pollutant transport, and ecological modeling.

Orcid :
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8101-2059

ScoupsID:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55535752100

Publications

1. Keshta, E., Gad, M. A., & Amin, D., " A Long–Term Response-Based Rainfall-Runoff Hydrologic Model: Case Study of the Upper Blue Nile ", Hydrology (MDPI), 2019
2. Refaiy, A.R., AboulAtta, N.M., Gad, M.A., El-Molla, D., " A Review of the Experimental Approaches for Modeling the Overtopping Breach Process in Embankment Dams ", Indian Geotech J., 56, 424, 2026
3. Taher, M., Eizeldin, M., Saad, S. A., Soliman, M., & Gad, M., " Development of Drawdown Time Series in a Coastal Aquifer by Complex Pumping Using Analytical Approach ", American Journal of Water Resources, 13(4), 129-140, 2025
4. Keshta, E., Amin, D., ElMoustafa, A. M., & Gad, M. A., " Enhancing Climate Modeling over the Upper Blue Nile Basin Using RegCM5-MOLOCH ", Climate, 13(10), 206, 2025
5. Abdelalim, S.M., Gad, M.A. & El-Molla, D.A, " Modeling local scour around complex bridge supports using CFD and a shear-stresses-based simplified approach ", J. Eng. Appl. Sci. 71, 208, 2024
6. Amr R. Refaiy, Nahla M. AboulAtta, Mohamed A. Gad, & Doaa A. El-Molla, " Modeling the successive failure of complex dams systems: A necessity in the light of climatic shifts in extreme storms ", Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 15(11), 103033, 2024
7. Salah, M., El-Mostafa, A., & Gad, M., " A tolerant hydrologic technique for real-time selection of optimum QPFs from NWPMs for flood warning applications ", Water Science and Technology, 89(4), 841-858, 2024
8. Mohamed A. Gad, Mai H. Elshehaly, Denis Gračanin, & Hicham G. Elmongui, " A Tracking Analyst for large 3D spatiotemporal data from multiple sources (case study: Tracking volcanic eruptions in the atmosphere) ", Computers & Geosciences, 111, 283-293, 2018
9. Remah F. Foda, Ayman G. Awadallah, & Mohamed A. Gad, " A Fast Semi Distributed Rainfall Runoff Model for Engineering Applications in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions ", Water Resources Management, 31, 4941-4955, 2017
10. Shaimaa El Sharkawy, Mona Safar, Mohamed A. Gad, " A spatiotemporally variable model for nowcasting storm motion vectors using remotely sensed raster data ", 17th International Conference on AEROSPACE SCIENCES & AVIATION TECHNOLOGY, Cairo, Egypt, 2017
11. Youssef, N., Gad, M., Elmoustafa, A., & Elleithy, D., " Improving the Estimation of Soil Moisture in Semi-Arid Regions Using Data from Different Remote Sensing Techniques ", International Journal of Geoinformatics, 19(8), 42–53, 2023
12. Mohamed A. Gad, Doaa Anas, Nahla A. Atta, & Ghada Samy, " Worth of the three dimensional simulations of seepage in the vicinity of heading-up structures ", KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 20(2), 679-686, 2016
13. Elshehaly, M., Gračanin, D., Gad, M., Elmongui, H., & Matković, K., " Interactive Fusion and Tracking For Multi-Modal Spatial Data Visualization ", Computer Graphics Forum, 34(3), 2015
14. Gad, M., " Flow Velocity and Travel Time Determination on Grid Basis Using Spatially Varied Hydraulic Radius ", Journal of Environmental Informatics, 23(2), 36-46, 2014
15. Silim, A., Gad, M.A., Atta, N.A., " A Coupled Hydrodynamic and Ecological Model for Simulating Eutrophication in Lake Maryout in Egypt ", Al-Azhar Engineering 13th International Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 2014
16. El-Shehaly, M., Gračanin, D., Gadd, M., Elmongui, H., & Matkovic, K., " StreamProbe: A Novel GPU-based Selection Technique for Interactive Flow Field Exploration ", Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2014, 2014
17. Mohamed A. Gad, Ayman Saad, A. El-Fiky, & Motaaz Khaled, " Hydrodynamic Modeling of Sedimentation in the Navigation Channel of Damietta Harbor in Egypt ", Coastal Engineering Journal, 55(2), 1350007-1–1350007-31, 2013
18. Mohamed A. Gad, " A useful automated rainfall-runoff model for engineering applications in semi-arid regions ", Computers & Geosciences, 52, 443-452., 2013
19. A. M. Hashish, M. A. Gad, M. K. ElKamash, M. S. Gad El-Rab and M. Nour El-Din, " Impacts of different breakwater configurations on the water quality; case study: Mandrah Beach ", 4th IAHR International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures. Portuguese Water Resources Association (APRH), Porto, Portugal, 2012., 2012
20. Gad, M.A., " The Hydraulic Design of Shendi Al-Mattamma Bridge over the Nile in Sudan using 2D Hydrodynamic Simulations ", . VI-International Conference on Environmental Hydrology, ASCE-EGS, Cairo, Sept.2009., 2009
21. M.M. Soliman, M. A. Gad, Ashraf M. El-Moustafa, " Hydrological Model for the High Aswan Dam Reservoir Management ", . V Int. Symposium on Environmental Hydrology, ASCE-EGS, 2007, 2007
22. Gad, M.A., Soussa, H., and Eissa, M., " Developing Geographical Information System for the Estimation and Analysis of Rainfall Fields over Egypt using METEOSAT Images ", ITI Fifth Arab Conference on Geographical Information Systems, Cairo Egypt. pp. 293-321., 2004
23. Gad, M., & Tsanis, I., " A GIS methodology for the analysis of weather radar precipitation data ", Journal of Hydroinformatics, 5(2), 113-126, 2003
24. I.K Tsanis, M.A Gad, & N.T Donaldson, " A comparative analysis of rain-gauge and radar techniques for storm kinematics ", Advances in Water Resources, 25(3), 305-316, 2002
25. I.K Tsanis, & M.A Gad, " A GIS precipitation method for analysis of storm kinematics ", Environmental Modelling & Software, 16(3), 273-281, 2001