Welcome to the Environmental Flow Computing (EFC) Lab!
We are a team of modelers, scientists, and engineering researchers dedicated to studying above- and belowground water flow and transport phenomena across watersheds, rivers, wetlands, and coastal areas.
We invite you to explore our web pages and reach out if you are interested in collaborating or have any questions.
News
- [Aug 2025] Our lab is now open! We are ready to conduct high-quality research on a wide range of water-related topics.
- [Jun 2025] AGU25 session approved! Together with scientists from PNNL, USU, and Princeton, we will host a hydrology session, Advancements in Physics-based, Integrated Hydrologic Modeling to Support Water Resources Management. Look forward to meeting you at AGU25!
Older news
- [Apr 2025] It’s official! I will join the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut as an Assistant Professor in the Fall 2025 semester!
- [Feb 2025] I gladly welcome collaboration on any interesting development and application of pyRiverBed! A co-authored paper titled “Analytical simulation of meander morphology from equilibrium to long-term evolution: Impacts of channel geometry and vegetation-induced coarsening” has been published in International Journal of Sediment Research. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsrc.2025.02.003
UConn Links
Lab PI: Zhi Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated with the Eversource Energy Center
Lab Keywords: Computational Hydrology & Hydraulics, Watershed Hydrology, Disturbance Hydrology, Solute Transport, Reactive Transport, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence in Open-Channel Flows, Sediment Transport, River Dynamics, Fluvial Geomorphology, Computational Fluid Dynamics, High-Performance Computing
Contact: zhi.2.li@uconn.edu
GitHub:
EFC Lab and PI personal