Throughout his career Mike wrote 7 texbooks on computational hydraulics and hydroinformatics – these are widely cited classics that have been translated into many languages, including Chinese and Russian. In 2001 he was appointed Emeritus Professor in Hydroinformatics and continued working closely with many of the existing staff at IHE. In 1966 he returned to IHE (currently IHE Delft Institute for Water Education), where he advanced rapidly to become Professor in Computational Hydraulics and subsequently Hydroinformatics.
He was then appointed as a NATO Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (1963-64), followed by a Lectureship at the Technical University of Denmark (1964-66). He then studied fluid dynamics and computer programming at the University of Southampton (1957-58), followed by a diploma at the International Course in Hydraulic Engineering (IHE) in Delft (1958-59), and completing his PhD at Southampton in 1960. He studied civil engineering at the University of London, graduating in 1953. Mike Abbott was born in Barnet, UK, in 1931. Mike was a dedicated promoter of IAHR and a most revered and beloved friend to numerous IAHR members. In recent times he introduced IAHR members to the spiritual dimensions of the water world and encouraged IAHR to reach out for a global vision of water management, beyond a regional or country-specific context. He was an avid reader and a deep thinker who liked to share his philosophical views alongside the technical feats. His captivating teaching has inspired generations of students from all over the world - many of whom are now in leadership positions in academia, government and industry. His lectures and work on hydroinformatics have guided the development of the global water industry, as big data and computational modelling provide everyday tools to manage water systems in numerous countries.
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He was always ahead of his time his book on Computational Hydraulics in the early 1980s ushered in the new era of numerical modelling of free surface flow problems in hydraulic research and engineering. Mike (as he was known to all) was a scholar, a visionary and a pioneer of computational hydraulics, hydroinformatics and, more recently, the water knowledge initative. IAHR mourns the loss of a ‘Giant’ within our community. Michael Abbott, Honorary Member of IAHR, sadly passed away on Thursday 19th December 2019, at the age of 88.
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