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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.
Recent Research
RVRMeander
The RVR Meander platform is a collaboration between the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh. Visit http://www.rvrmeander.org for Keep Reading…
Recent Publications
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 Keep Reading…
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, Keep Reading…
Illinois Hyporheic Flow Facility
Permeable media are encountered in a wide variety of geophysical systems. A particular type of such media is “hybrid porous Keep Reading…
Instantaneous Water Surface Elevation Profile Measurements
The Laboratory is utilizing new, low-cost technology for measuring instantaneous water surface elevation profiles in laboratory flumes. The system currently Keep Reading…