The Boneyard Creek is located within Champaign and Urbana, Illinois, and serves as the primary conduit for transporting storm- water Keep Reading…
'Research' Category Archives
Boneyard Creek Flow Drop Study
The Boneyard Creek is a small urban waterway that runs through Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. The creek’s existing channel geometry Keep Reading…
Boneyard Creek Channel Capacity Analysis
Flooding of the Boneyard Creek in the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois has been a recurring problem since gradual Keep Reading…
Wave-Ripple Bedforms
The study comprises an examination of the interaction between a finite cylinder and a movable sand bed influenced by waves Keep Reading…
Turbidity Currents
This research addresses sediment transport in the ocean and is part of the EuroSTRATAFORM program (STRATA FORMation on continental margins). Keep Reading…
Sediment Resuspension
Current research in this area is related to erosion caused by submerged turbulent wall jets. Different kinds of wall, plane, Keep Reading…
Oscillatory-Scour Bedforms
Burial processes of finite length cylinders under pure oscillatory flow were examined with a large oscillating water-sediment tunnel (LOWST). Cylindrical Keep Reading…
Oscillatory Flow Fields
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) with fluorescent tracer particles has been used to measure the velocity field above sand ripples for Keep Reading…
Flow-Particle Interaction
The most advanced research is related to suspended sediment transport in rivers. This kind of transport involves turbulence that plays Keep Reading…
Pool-Riffles
As part of river restoration, the geomorphological, ecological, and engineering aspects must be considered. The river restoration facilitates the river Keep Reading…