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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. The Laboratory is named in honor of its founder, Professor Ven Te Chow.

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Third Experimental Methods Symposium

Prof. Marcelo Garcia was a member of the organizing committee for the third Experimental Methods Symposium. More...
Marcelo Garcia at the Chicago Ideas Week

Prof. Marcelo García presented Hydraulics in the Time of Cholera (video link) at the Chicago Ideas Week.
Prof. Garcia wins Hunter Rouse award

Prof. Marcelo Garcia won the Hunter Rouse award for "outstanding contributions to the field of hydraulic engineering over 25 years, including research...

Initiation of motion of consolidated coarse-grained alluvium

Current field techniques are available to quantify critical shear stress and erosion rates of cohesive bed/bank materials. For coarse-grained alluvium, critical shear stress is presumed to be in conformity with Shields' diagram, where the primary parameter is the grain size. Shields' diagram and...
Movable-Bed Model Testing of Bridge Scour

The Alaska Railroad Corporation is planning and designing the Northern Rail Extension Project to extend from a location on the Eielson Branch near North Pole, Alaska to Delta Junction, Alaska, a distance of approximately 80 miles. The alignment crosses the Tanana River near Salcha, Alaska. This...
Initiation of motion of consolidated coarse-grained alluvium

Current field techniques are available to quantify critical shear stress and erosion rates of cohesive bed/bank materials. For coarse-grained alluvium, critical shear stress is presumed to be in conformity with Shields' diagram, where the primary parameter is the grain size. Shields' diagram and...