Experimental Research and Parameters Optimization of a Prototype OWC Wave Power Device
The paper presents the experimental research and parameters optimization of a prototype oscillating water column (OWC) wave power device being built in China by Guangzhou Institute of...
Study on Pneumatic Wave Power Conversion System with the Water Valve Rectifier
We experimentally and theoretically studied the energy conversion characteristics on a new type of wave power conversion system with water valves. The hydraulic model experiment was performed...
Research and Development of Wave Pump
A new device, 'Wave Pump' is introduced here. The authors present the mechanism of the system, the analytical method for discharge rate, the hydraulic model test...
A Semi-Empirical Model for an OC-OTEC Spout Flash Evaporator
A phenomenological model for the thermal-hydraulics of a spout flash evaporator is presented in this paper. The model considers the two-phase flow behavior both in the spout and in the...
Stresses in Concrete Armor Units
This book is derived from a Seminar at the Waterways Experiment Station, Coastal Engineering Research Center, Vicksburg, Mississippi held on November 7-8, 1989. It presents a state-of-the-art...
50th Anniversary of the Hydraulic Division 1938-1988
This publication consists of the papers presented at the special sessions of the 1988 ASCE National Conference on Hydraulic Engineering held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 8-10,...
Hydraulic Engineering
This proceedings consists of papers presented at the ASCE National Convention on Hydraulic Engineering given July 30 to August 3, 1990 in San Diego, California. The Conference provided...
Hydraulics/Hydrology of Arid Lands (H?AL)
This proceedings consists of papers presented at the International Symposium on the Hydraulics and Hydrology of Arid Lands which was held in conjunction with the 1990 National Conference...
Progress in Hydromechanics
The historical development of hydromechanics in the fifty years since the founding of the Hydraulics Division is reviewed. Rouse's 1938 text, Fluid Mechanics for Hydraulic Engineers, provided...
Advancement in Tidal Hydraulics
This paper will discuss advances in the field of tidal hydraulics since the inception of the ASCE Hydraulics Division 50 years ago. Activities of the Committees on Tidal Hydraulics of...
Contributions by the Hydraulics Division of ASCE to the Advancement of Ground-Water Hydrology
Papers related to ground-water hydrology published in Proceedings of the ASCE and in Hydraulics Division journals from 1938 through mid-1988 are briefly summarized. The areas covered are...
Research in ASCE's Hydraulics Division
Research in the Hydraulics Division of ASCE during the last 50 years has undergone changes in both technical content and procedures. Open channel flow, sediment transport and pipe flow...
Development of Hydraulic Structures
The Bureau of Reclamation was established in 1902. Since that time, Reclamation has constructed more than 220 dams. Each dam, depending on its function, has two or more principal hydraulic...
Cold Regions Hydrology and Hydraulics
The Cold Regions Hydrology and Hydraulics Monograph is the eighth in a series of monographs prepared by the ASCE Technical Council on Cold Regions Engineering. The book is intended to...
Application of BEM to Two-Dimensional EPFM
This paper describes the authors' current and continuing research in application of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) to crack growth problems in Elastoplastic Fracture Mechanics...
Tradeoffs Between Active Control and Identification of Structural Systems
This paper explores the tradeoffs between structural identification and structural control in a quantitative manner. Through the intemediary concept of an optimal input, it is shown that...
Rock Excavation with Boom Mounted Hydraulic Impact Hammers
A hydraulic demolition hammer mounted on a common backhoe or excavator carrier has gained world wide acceptance in the construction industry as a viable alternative to blasting. This paper...
Fracturing of Rock Using Expansive Soundless Chemical Demolition Agents
The theoretical principles of the action of expansive soundless chemical demolition agents are presented. The procedure for using these demolition agents are briefly outlined. Differences...
Barrier Beach Water Table Management
The solution to the water table elevation within a barrier beach, subject to the assumptions of a homogeneous and isotropic phreatic aquifer, is an ellipse with its long axis oriented...
The Coastal Breach at Nauset Beach, Chatham, Massachusetts?A Case Study
Nauset Beach, a barrier spit separating Pleasant Bay from the Atlantic Ocean at the town of Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, breached in a severe storm on January 2, 1987. The breach...
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