Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory

Our Work: Master Theses

• Niño, Yarko. (1992). "Sediment Bars in Straight and Meandering Channels: Experimental Study on the Resonance Phenomenon." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Bittner, Laura Diane. (1994). "River Bed Response to Channel Width Variation: Theory and Experiments." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Dill, Anthony John. (1994). "Video-based Particle Tracking Velocimetry Technique for Measuring Flow Velocity in Porous Media." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• López, Fabían. (1994). "Near-wall Turbulent Coherent Structures and Their Role on Sediment Transport in Smooth-bed Open Channel Flows." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Parsons, Jeffrey David. (1995). "Flow Structure and Mixing Characteristics in Saline Gravity Current Fronts." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Dunn, Chad Jason. (1996). "Flow Structure and Resistance in a Laboratory Channel with Simulated Vegetation." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Echavarria, Bernardo. (1996). "Reservoir Sedimentation by Free-surface and Plunging Flows: Application to Lake Decatur, Illinois." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Freeman, Jeffrey William. (1996). "Yorkville Dam Hydraulic Model Study; Drowproofing a Low Overflow Structure." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Armbruster, Jonathan. (1998). "Hydraulic Model Study for the Restoration of Batavia Dam, Fox River, Illinois." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Rodríguez, José Fernando. (1998). "Wall Shear Stress in Unsteady Turbulent Flow and Its Role in Sediment Transport." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Fedele, Juan Jose. (1999). "Bed roughness in Alluvial Streams." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Waratuke, Andrew. (1999). "Hydraulic Model Study of the Boneyard Creek at Wright Street, Champaign and Urbana, Illinois." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Caisley, Margorie E. (2000). "Hydraulic Model Study of a Canoe Chute for Illinois Streams." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Peabody, Andrew. (2000). "Hydraulic model study of the Boneyard Creek at Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, Illinois." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Schuster, Josephine M. (2000). "Hydraulic Model Study for the Optimization of the Spillway at Batavia Dam, Fox River, Illinois." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Garcia, Pedro. (2001). "." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Guzman, Jose. (2001). "A first approach to suspended sediment modeling with the Full Equations Model(FEQ)." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Abad, Jorge. (2002). "2D River Models for Prediction of Sediment Transport and Morphological Variations." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Briskin, Brigid Johanna. (2002). "Application of an Annular Flume to Sediment Oxygen Demand Research: Investigation of Resuspension Effects." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Cantero, Mariano Ignacio. (2002). "Theoretical and Numerical Modeling of Turbidity Currents as Two-phase Flows." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Lopez, Felix. (2003). "." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Musalem, Rodrigo. (2003). "Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Analysis of Oscillatory Flow Field above Self-formed Vortex Ripples." Masters thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Rincon, Lucas Evangelista. (2003). "An Experimental Study of an Airflow Scaling Procedure for Bubble Plumes." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Sequieros, Octavio E. (2004). "Water Jet Erosion of a Finite Layer of Sediment." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Hoy, Matthew A. (2005). "Unsteady Flow Routing Using Predetermined Solutions to the Equations for Conservation of Mass and Momentum." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Pedocchi, Francisco. (2005). "Evaluation of a Laser Difraction Instrument and an Annular Flume for Cohesive Sediment Studies." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• McKay, S. Kyle. (2007). "Lateral Prediction of Depth-averaged Velocity in Compound Open Channels." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Bondar, Corrie E. (2007). "Method to estimate combined sewer overflow discharge from tide gates." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Cantone, Joshua P. (2007). "Potential dangers in simplifying combined sewer hydrologic/hydraulic models using subcatchment aggregation and conduit skeletonization." Masters thesis, University of Illinois. Electronic download available (1.5 MB).
• Haydel, Robert A. (2007). "Channel incision into mixed-sized reservoir sediments caused by dam removal." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Hollander, Daniel A. (2007). "Mathematical rainfall/runoff modeling methods for green roofs and their applications." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Ancalle, Javier E. (2007). "Experimental study on the hydraulics of high-amplitude Kinoshita-generated meandering channels." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Christensen, Daniel R. (2008). "Hydrologic Distributed Modeling Approach for Quantifying the Hydrologic Impacts of Rain Gardens in Urban Catchments." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.
• Crosa Rivarola, Claudia S. (2008). "High resolution synthetic urban watershed data for hydrologic model evaluation." Masters thesis, University of Illinois.

Future Theses

Davide Motta

Bryan Snook

Nathaniel Hanna Holloway

Scott Banjavcic

Waleska Echevarria