Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Lab @ The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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.

NEWS Professor García's 50th birthday will be celebrated with workshop August 16-18, 2009.

NEWS RCEM 2009 will be held in September 2009 in Sante Fe, Argentina. A number of pre-conference short courses will be held. More information is available at the conference Web site.

NEWS Enjoy Hydrosystems Lab EOH: The Movie, a video describing the 2008 Engineering Open House exhibits at the Lab.

NEWS Engineering Open House 2009: IAHR and IWRA student chapters won awards.

NEWS ASCE Manual 110: Sedimentation Engineering, edited by Marcelo H. García, has been published.

Our Work

PUBLICATIONS

Abstracts • Books • Chapters in Books • Conference Proceedings • Hydraulic Engineering Series • Journal Articles • Monographs • M.S. Theses • Ph.D. Theses • Presentations • Technical Reports

SOFTWARE

RVR Meander

Seminars

Basic Research

RIVERS

Flow Characteristics of Vegetated Channels • River Morphodynamics • Pool-riffles • ADV Flow Turbulence Performance Curves

SEDIMENT DYNAMICS

Turbidity Currents • Sediment Resuspension • Wave-ripple Bedforms and Burial • Oscillatory-scour Bedforms and Burial • Flow-particle Interaction • Oscillatory Flow Fields

ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS

Turbulent Jets • Bubble Plumes • Density Current Deposits

CFD

Discontinuous Density Currents • Turbulent Jets • Bubble Plumes • River Morphodynamics • Sediment Transport Modeling • Bedforms

Applied Research

RIVERS

Batavia Dam Restoration Study • Fox River at Yorkville • Flow Restrictor Study • Flow Drop Study • Bottleneck Analysis • Channel Capacity Analysis • Spillway Optimization • Bank Erosion Control with Weirs • Chicago River Density Currents

ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS

UV Disenfection Head Losses • Chicago River Density Currents • Side-stream Elevated Pool Aeration • Tunnel And Reservoir Plan

HYDRAULIC MODELING

Hydraulic Transients • Chicago River Density Currents • Batavia Dam Restoration Study • Flow Restrictor Study • Flow Drop Study • Bottleneck Analysis • Channel Capacity Analysis • Turbulent Flow in Hydraulic Structures • Spillway Optimization • Canoe Chutes for Low-head Dams

CFD

Canoe Chutes for Low-head Dams • Turbulent Flow in Hydraulic Structures • Bank Erosion Control with Weirs

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