CE717 - River Mechanics
Pierre Julien
Spring 2022

 

SYLLABUS

Book River Mechanics - CUP

ASSIGNMENTS

 
Assignment # 1  Attachment Solution #1
Assignment # 2 Stations Solution #2
Assignment # 3
Solution #3
Assignment # 4
Solution #4
Assignment # 5
Solution #5
Assignment # 6 
Solution #6
Assignment # 7 
Solution #7

FIELDTRIP
Report

COMPUTER PROBLEMS
Computer Problem     (version without 716)    Solution  


GUEST SPEAKERS


                                                                                


Guest lectures from Dr. Kristin Bunte: (1) Bed Material and (2) Sediment Transport

Guest lectures from Dr. Drew Baird: (1) River Management  (2) Rio Grande ; (3) Lecture ; and (4) RGSM

Dr. Drew Baird Guest Lecture April 28, 2020
 
Papers and additional information on specific subjects discussed in class:

Chap 3-4 - Hydrology- Hydraulics
TREX must see movie at California Gulch
Hydrologic Guidelines USBR
Non-stationarity USACE
Raindrop impact
Transfoms
CASC2D
TREX Model
TREX metals
TREX large watersheds
TREX Paleohydrology
others...
Movie on a droplet impact
Rainfall erosivity factor - Cooper
Rehabilitation of contaminated areas: Manual NUREG-1623
Bulletin 17C
Risk Management Center of the USACE RMC
PPT file from D. Moses and the Risk Management Center, pdf report
Urban Drainage UDFCD

Chap 6 - Unsteady Flow
Diffusive wave derivation
 Roll Waves
Celerity of supercritical flows
Flow Pulses in Rivers
Mississippi Flood 2008 
Mississippi Levees 2008
USACE Flood Risk Management Weblink
HEC Flood Frequency Analysis   and ppt file
Update (2009) on HEC-RAS
Measurement techniques during floods North Dakota Flood  
Mississippi 1973 Flood
Padma River paper from C. Neill
Grand Canyon Experiment Collier et al.
Flood routing algorithms Palu and Julien 2020
Fundao dam break water and sediment routing Palu and Julien 2019

Chap. 8-9 Riverbank Protection
Riprap USACE report from Maynord
 Riprap design of the Nakdong River with Drs. Park, Ji and Ruff  
Streambank Protection Manual
River Training Work on the Jamuna River from Gerrit Klaassen.
River Confluences Ganges-Jamuna from Best and Ashworth
HEC 18 Scour at bridges
HEC 20 Stream Stability at Highway Structures
HEC 23  Bridge Scour and Countermeasures Vol. 1,   Vol. 2
Reclamation Bank Stabilization Guidelines
Scour spreadsheet from Drew Baird

Chapters 9-10 Channel stability and Equilibrium
Paper on downstream hydraulic geometry of alluvial rivers: Julien & Wargadalam
Software to solve the JW equations
Stability in bends
Channel migration
River meandering video
Coriolis motion: video
Hillslope stability root strength  Ziemer and Pollen et al.
Channel width of the Rio Grande, from Greimann and Holste

Chap. 11 River Dynamics and Channel Response
RAS-SED video
Changes in channel width below Cochiti Dam on the Rio Grande
Changes in channel width below Hapcheon Dam
Effects of Flow Pulses on DHG below dams
Paper on equivalent channel widths with Claudia Leon and Drew Baird
Others...
Headcut in Ecuador
Paper from Daryl B. Simons on  alluvial channels and CSU history
Report on Sand Mining 

Chap. 13 Environmental
Fishway design from C. Katopodis
Stream management Fischenich and Allen
Stability threshold Fischenich
Reclamation Rock ramp design guideline Mooney
Fish friendly structures Derbyshire
Ichtyomechanics Katapodis
Bank protection with fascine Sotir and Fischenich
Stream Rehabilitation Watson et al.
Atlantic salmon  life history, suitability, survival, discharge
Stream Restoration Design NRCS Handbook
Large woody debris - Large Wood National Manual
NCHRP Report 568
Handbook of acute toxicity
Infrastructure in the stream environment
Urban erosion control manual

Chap. 14 River Engineering
Example Muda River
Muda Paper in ASCE
River Management Manual from JPS Malaysia
Manual Highways in the River Environment
Rock ramp Reclamation
Fish Protection Manual from USBR  Floating Culvert movie 5 MB 
Zebra and Quagga Mussels
Inland Navigation Manual from COE
Environmental Handbook USACE
Slides on Dredging
Two papers on large rivers from Bob Meade on the Mississippi and the Amazon
Dam Removal

Chap. 15 Waves and Tides
Saffir-Simpson and Fujita Scales
Dredging ppt  from T. Welp, USACE
Dredged Material EPA-USACE Manual

Homework #4 - Older ppt presentations:
Riverbank Protection by Holste, Renhold and Ursic
Flow Control Structures by Jaehoon Kim, Tanaka and Yochum
River Armoring by Comport, Scholl, Youngblood and Kositgittiwong
Rivers in Urban Environment, by Woolley and Elliott

Homework #5 - 2009 ppt presentations:
Heavy sediment loads by A. Paris, M. Scurlock and P. O'Brien
Cutoff Channels by Beckman, Ku and Roznovski

Homework #5 - 2012 ppt presentations:
River Confluences by F. Karimpour and J. Smalley
Gravel Mining by R. Kindt and K. Lowthian
Weirs and Canal Intakes by N. Kolden and T. Barnett
Grade Control Structures by C. Shrimpton and J. McIntosh
Headcut Prevention by J. Quebbeman, A. Steininger and R. Williams

Homework #4 - 2013 ppt presentations:
Bank Protection at Confluences by D. Brogan and S. Sahaar
Grade Control Structures by A. Cobb and J. Rainwater
Headcut Prevention by P. Ndolo Goy and Y. Jung
River Bank Protection by A. Garanaik and J. Sholtes

Homework #4 - 2014 ppt presentations on the 2013 Colorado Flood
Flood Hydrology by O. Aseperi, J. Kattnig and O. Martyusheva
Flood Hydraulics by A. Nithianantham, J. Zhou and J. Cho
River Engineering by A. Orechwa, M. Yaw and J. Morgan
Flood Management by M. Blair, A. Chestnut, H. Kim and C. Ubing

Homework #4 - 2015 ppt presentations:
River measurement Techniques by H. Addab, N.A. Hadimoeljono and R.Pickard
River-groundwater Impact on Bank Stability by D. Criswell and R. Lammers
Armoring in Gravel-bed Streams by T. Hanson and N. Koutsunis

Homework #6 - 2016 ppt presentations:
Physical river  modeling  - Adams and Armstrong
Gravel - bed armoring  – Baxter  and Brown
Hydraulic structures (canal intakes and weirs)  – Du  and  Hardee
Aquatic habitat for endangered species  – Horner and Jobin
Upland erosion and sediment yield from watersheds  – Kang  and Klema
CFD models for rivers and  sediment transport   - Lai,  Li and  Zhang
River closures and dam construction – Palu  and Persaud
Specific degradation and reservoir sedimentation  – Vandermause and Yang

Homework #6 - 2017 ppt presentations:
Fountain Creek Report
Fountain Creek ppt

Homework #4 - 2018 pptx presentations:
Riprap gradation and filters - Flores and Garfield
Soil cement - Hogan and Karpack
Timber pile dikes - Keene and LaForge
Vanes - Murphy and Valenzuela

Homework #4 - 2019 pptx presentations:
Jetty Fields - Cortese
Soil Cement - Doidge
Gabions - Harshit
Guide Banks - Tyner
Articulated Concrete Mattresses - White

Homework #4 - 2020 pptx presentations:
Bio-engineering - Beckwith
Log Jams - Byron
Chevrons - Eggleston
Jetty Fields - Fogarty
J-hooks - Inglin
Canal Intakes - Volt

Homework #4 - 2021 pptx presentations:
Stilling Basins - Moses
River Ecosystems - Schied
Contaminants and Toxicity - Sperry
Low Vanes - Maddocks

Homework #4 - 2022 pptx presentations:
Retaining Walls - Anderson - Wittmershaus
Armoring - Corsi and Rasmussen
Numerical Models - Doster-Pugh
Tectonics and Rivers - Maddocks and Mobley

SPREADSHEETS

Peak discharge
At-a-station geometry
Flow-duration curves
Flood Routing
Downstream hydraulic geometry
Riprap
Pier/abutment scour
Mobile bed
Advection-dispersion
Aggradation-degradation   

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