Hydraulic Engineering, Stream Restoration & River Mechanics
Research:
The program maintains broad research activities. Specific areas of emphasis are:
- open channel flow
- diffusion and sediment transport in open channels
- mudflows and debris flows
- sediment yield from watersheds
- salinity in rivers
- properties of alluvial bed forms
- meandering and braiding in rivers
- stream restoration and rehabilitation
- multi-scale linkages between sedimentation processes and aquatic biota
- hydraulic and geomorphic influences on water quality
- two-phase flow including sediment transport in large rivers
- studies of spillways
- energy dissipators
- diversion structures
- channel stabilization
- scour around bridge piers
- abutment scour
- sediment ejection and exclusion structures
- design and operation of water conveyance systems
- design of stable channels, control of water losses
- long-term response of river and environmental systems
- hydrodynamics
- hydraulic machinery
- cavitation
- instrumentation
- radar and GIS-based surface runoff modeling
- geosciences