Assistant Professor, Hydrology and Hydrodynamics Department

Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
addres: Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw
phone: +48 22 6915-849, e-mail: m.mrokowska@igf.edu.pl

External links: Linkedin, Publons, Orcid

Employment

Institute of Geophysics PAS

• Assistant Professor, 2014 - present
• Research Assistant, 2011-2014
• Head of Hydrodynamic Models Laboratory, 2016 - present

Research interests

• sedimentation, particles settling in stratified ambient conditions,
• density currents,
• bed load transport in steady and unsteady flow,
• resistance to flow in steady and unsteady flow,
•  experimental methods, laboratory techniques.

Publications

Mrokowska M.M., 2018:  Stratification-induced reorientation of disk settling through ambient density transition. Scientific Reports, 8, 412, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18654-7

Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., Książek L., Strużyński A., Wyrębek M., Radecki-Pawlik A., 2018: Laboratory studies on bedload transport under unsteady flow conditions, Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 66, 1, 66, 23–31, DOI: 10.1515/johh-2017-0032

Kalinowska, M.B., Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., 2018: Sensitivity Analysis for the Water-Air Heat Exchange Term, In (ed. M.B. Kalinowska I in.) Free Surface Flows and Transport Processes; Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-70914-7_13

Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., 2017: Bed shear stresses and bed shear velocities - ubiquitous variables in river hydraulics, In: A. Radecki-Pawlik, S. Pagliara, J. Hradecky (Eds) Open Channel Hydraulics, River Hydraulic Structures and Fluvial Geomorphology: For Engineers, Geomorphologists and Physical Geographers,CRC Press, pp. 180-195

Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., Książek L., Strużyński A., Wyrębek M., Radecki-Pawlik A., 2016: Flume experiments on gravel bed load transport in unsteady flow – preliminary results, In (eds. P. Rowiński, A. Marion) Hydrodynamic and mass transport at freshwater aquatic interfaces. Geoplanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, pp. 221-233, DOI 10.1007/978-319-27750-9_18

Mrokowska,M.M., Rowiński, P. M., and Kalinowska, M. B., 2015: A methodological approach of estimating resistance to flow under unsteady flow conditions, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19, 4041-4053, DOI 10.5194/hess-19-4041-2015

Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński R.M., Kalinowska M.B., 2015: Evaluation of friction velocity in unsteady flow experiments, Journal of Hydraulic Research, 53(5), 659-669,  DOI 10.1080/00221686.2015.1072853

Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., Kalinowska, M.B., 2013: The uncertainty of measurements in river hydraulics – the case of the friction velocity evaluation based on an unrepeatable experiment, In (ed. P. Rowiński) Experimental and Computational Solutions of Hydraulic Problems; Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences; Springer Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 195-206, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-30209-1_13

Mrokowska M.M., M. Osuch, 2011: Assessing validity of the dead zone model to characterize transport of contaminants in Wkra River, In (ed. P. Rowiński)  Experimental methods in hydraulic research, Experimental Methods in Hydraulic Research, Geoplanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 235-246, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17475-9_16

Other publications

Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński R.M., 2016: Notes on bed load transport under unsteady flow conditions, 12th International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering „Hydroscience & Engineering for Environmental Resilience”, Tainan, Taiwan

Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński R.M., Kalinowska M.B, 2014:  Experimental study of friction slope in unsteady non-unform flow in rectangular channel, 3rd IAHR Europe Congress, Book of Proceedings, 2014, Porto -Portugal, ISBN 978-989-96479-2-3

Mrokowska M.M., P.M. Rowiński, 2012: Calculability of resistance to flow under flood conditions, In: Water - infinitely deformable but still limited - Proceedings of the 2nd IAHR Europe Congress, 27 - 29 June 2012, Technische Universität München. (eds.) Peter Rutschmann, Markus Grünzner, Stephan Hötzl, USB-Stick, Paper C12, 6 pages ISBN 978-3-943683-03-5

Mrokowska M., M. Osuch, 2011: Modelowanie transportu zanieczyszczeń w korytach rzecznych z uwzględnieniem niepewności na przykładzie modelu martwych stref. Przegląd Naukowy Inżynieria i Kształtowanie Środowiska, Vol. 51(1), pp. 3-14  

Editorial Boards and Scientific Committees

• Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 2018 - present
• Kalinowska M.B., Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M. (Eds.), 2018: Free Surface Flows and Transport Processes; Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Organising and Scientific Committee member: International School of Hydraulics
• Scientific International Committee member: Symposium and Exhibition on Hydro-Environment Sensors and Software 2019

Research Grants

• Principal investigator of Young Researchers Grant of IG PAS: Physical modeling of particles settling in density stratified fluid (2016 - 2017)
• Principal investigator of Young Researchers Grant of IG PAS: Setting up laboratory hydraulic channel - construction and preliminary research (2014 - 2016)
• Principal investigator of the research project funded by National Science Centre, (2011/01/N/ST10/07395):  Resistance to flow under flood conditions (2011- 2016)
• Researcher – team member. Project Iuventus Plus funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, (028772): The analysis of two-dimensional warm water transport in flowing surface waters (2014)

Awards

• Award of Director of Institute of Geophysics for outstanding publication record in 2015
• Award of the Scientific Board of Institute of Geophysics PAS for outstanding PhD thesis