Kimberly Hill

Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering

Contact

612-626-0311

kmhill@umn.edu

Civil Engineering Building
Room 238
500 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Affiliations

St. Anthony Falls Laboratory

Biographical Info

Education

Ph.D., 1997, physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
M.S., 1996, physics. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
B.S., 1991, physics, summa cum laude, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Professional Background

Assistant professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2004-2005
Lecturer and visiting assistant professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2001-2004
Assistant professor, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1999-2001
Postdoctoral appointee, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1998-1999
Postdoctoral appointee, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1997-1998

Research & Teaching

Publications & Awards

Selected Publications

Phillips, C. B., Hill, K. M., Paola, C., Singer, M. B. & Jerolmack, D. J. 2018. Effect of Flood Hydrograph Duration, Magnitude, and Shape on Bed Load Transport Dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters. 45, 16, p. 8264-8271.

Stefan, H., Ellis, C., Gulliver, J. S., Hondzo, M., Paola, C., Marr, J. D., Hill, K. M., Guala, M., Ebtehaj, A., Voller, V. R., Erickson, A., Kozarek, J. & Hansen, A. T. 2018. The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory: 80 Years of Progress Part 2A Transition to Environmental Research. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018: International Perspectives, History and Heritage, Emerging Technologies, and Student Papers - Selected Papers from the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018. Kamojjala, S. (ed.). American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), p. 151-184 34 p. (World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018: International Perspectives, History and Heritage, Emerging Technologies, and Student Papers - Selected Papers from the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018).

Hill, K. M., Gaffney, J., Baumgardner, S., Wilcock, P. & Paola, C. 2017. Experimental study of the effect of grain sizes in a bimodal mixture on bed slope, bed texture, and the transition to washload. Water Resources Research. 53, 1, p. 923-941.

Hill, K. M. & Tan, D., Mar 15 2017. "Granular flows applied to gravel-bed rivers: Particle-scale studies of the mobilization of a gravel bed by the addition of fines." Gravel-Bed Rivers: Process and Disasters. Wiley Blackwell, p. 73-95.

Fei, M., Sun, Q., Hill, K. M. & Zhou, G. G. D. 2017. Simulation of size segregation in granular flow with material point method. EPJ Web of Conferences. 140, 11010.

Kaitna, R., Palucis, M. C., Yohannes, B., Hill, K. M. & Dietrich, W. E. 2016. Effects of coarse grain size distribution and fine particle content on pore fluid pressure and shear behavior in experimental debris flows. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 121, 2, p. 415-441.

Hill, K. M. & Fan, Y. 2016. Granular temperature and segregation in dense sheared particulate mixtures. KONA Powder and Particle Journal. 33, p. 150-168.

Filipovitch, N., Hill, K. M., Longjas, A. & Voller, V. R. 2016. Infiltration experiments demonstrate an explicit connection between heterogeneity and anomalous diffusion behavior. Water Resources Research. 52, 7, p. 5167-5178.

Fan, Y. & Hill, K. M. 2015. Shear-induced segregation of particles by material density. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 92, 2, 022211.

Tan, D. S., Khazanovich, L., Siekmeier, J. & Hill, K. M. 2014. Discrete element modeling of effect of moisture and fine particles in lightweight deflectometer test. Transportation Research Record. 2433, p. 58-67.