Much is unknown about the flow structure and turbulence characteristics in open channels with vegetative canopies. All models of open-channel Keep Reading…
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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…
ADV Performance Curves (APC) Sampling the Flow Turbulence
The capability of Acoustic Doppler Velocimeters (ADV) to resolve flow turbulence was analyzed by means of a new tool referred Keep Reading…
Density Current Deposits
A turbidity current is created by means of a saline flow. The salinity currents coming out of the diffuser located Keep Reading…
Turbulent Jets
Jets have been the subject of experimental, theoretical, and numerical works in the last 50 years. In particular, the literature Keep Reading…
Sediment Transport Modeling
The objective of this research is to incorporate sediment transport modeling to the former hydrodynamic model called STREMR (Bernard, 1993). Keep Reading…
Discontinuous Density Currents
This work presents two and three-dimensional CFD simulations of a discontinuous density current. The numerical results are compared to experimental Keep Reading…
Boneyard Creek Bottleneck Analysis and Channel Capacity Alternatives
Flooding of the Boneyard Creek along the north campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have caused multimillion dollar Keep Reading…
River Morphodynamics
River morphodynamics has attracted many research efforts in the last decades. The problem has been attacked via experimental, theoretical and Keep Reading…
CFD Bedforms
Current research relates to the sinking of cylinder sitting on the ocean bed. Code using FEM has been developed to Keep Reading…