Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Lab @ The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory is a 11,000 square-foot hydraulic research laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, part of the top-ranked Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

NEWS A video illustrating sediment transport processes is now available.

NEWS A new biographical summary of Ven Te Chow has been published.

NEWS Currently in construction is a facility for studying bridge scour on the Tanana River railroad bridge in Alaska.

NEWS The Lab is aiding in the design of a canoe chute study for Wichita, Kansas.

Our Work

PUBLICATIONS

Abstracts • Books • Chapters in Books • Conference Proceedings • Hydraulic Engineering Series • Journal Articles • Monographs • M.S. Theses • Ph.D. Theses • Presentations • Technical Reports

SOFTWARE

RVR Meander • WaveAR

MEDIA

Hydrosystems Lab EOH: The Movie

Seminars

Basic Research

RIVERS

Flow Characteristics of Vegetated Channels • River Morphodynamics • Pool-riffles • ADV Flow Turbulence Performance Curves

SEDIMENT DYNAMICS

Turbidity Currents • Sediment Resuspension • Wave-ripple Bedforms and Burial • Oscillatory-scour Bedforms and Burial • Flow-particle Interaction • Oscillatory Flow Fields

ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS

Turbulent Jets • Bubble Plumes • Density Current Deposits

CFD

Discontinuous Density Currents • Turbulent Jets • Bubble Plumes • River Morphodynamics • Sediment Transport Modeling • Bedforms

Applied Research

RIVERS

Batavia Dam Restoration Study • Fox River at Yorkville • Flow Restrictor Study • Flow Drop Study • Bottleneck Analysis • Channel Capacity Analysis • Spillway Optimization • Bank Erosion Control with Weirs • Chicago River Density Currents

ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS

UV Disenfection Head Losses • Chicago River Density Currents • Side-stream Elevated Pool Aeration • Tunnel And Reservoir Plan

HYDRAULIC MODELING

Hydraulic Transients • Chicago River Density Currents • Batavia Dam Restoration Study • Flow Restrictor Study • Flow Drop Study • Bottleneck Analysis • Channel Capacity Analysis • Turbulent Flow in Hydraulic Structures • Spillway Optimization • Canoe Chutes for Low-head Dams • Movable-Bed Model Testing of Bridge Scour

CFD

Canoe Chutes for Low-head Dams • Turbulent Flow in Hydraulic Structures • Bank Erosion Control with Weirs

Lab-Cam

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