Discrete Element Simulation of River Ice Jams
The discrete element method provides an alternative to traditional analytical and experimental methods for studying river ice transport phenomena. In the discrete element method, the movement...
Water Supply and Aeration Demands for Shrimp Farms
A computer model was developed simulating flow and aeration requirements for a range of farm sizes, from 50 to 2000 hectares. Climatic effects and water quality upset conditions were included...
A Mathematical Model for Transport and Mixing of Oil Slick in Rivers
A two-layer two-dimensional mathematical model for transport and mixing of oil in rivers is presented. In this model, oil in the river is considered to consist of a surface slick moving...
Soluble Pollutant Enrichment in Snow Covers
A mathematical model is presented to simulate enrichment of soluble pollutants in snow covers. The model is based on the liquid water flow, heat transport, and pollutant transport equations....
Modeling of Surface Vortices in Unsteady Flow
Hydraulic model studies of lock filling and emptying systems include investigating vortex tendencies at the intake vincinity during filling. The flow at the intake vicinity is unsteady...
A Branched Mass Transport Model of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California
A new branched mass (salt) transport model is used to simulate salt transport in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. The model uses a two-step procedure to determine the salt...
A Computational Analysis of Dynamic Interaction of Dam with Reservoir Water and Sediment
A two-dimensional model of porous media is employed to calculate the reduction of the onset hydrodynamic pressure with the bulk modulus of pore water in reservoir sediment. However, the...
Physical Modeling Study of the Niagara River Plume
A rotating laboratory facility is used to study the dynamics of the Niagara River discharge into Lake Ontario. The current tests are limits to buoyant discharge conditions, which occur...
A Hybrid Model for Sediment Concentration Profiles
The paper discusses the deficiency in the existing theories on suspended concentration profiles which is due to the variations of theories for modeling the velocity profiles. As can be...
Experimental and Numerical Study of Overland Flow Induced by Rainfall on the Loess Slope
Based on the repeated experiments of overlad flow on the Loess slope under the condition of constant and variable artificial rainfall intensity in laboratory, the mathematical model corresponding...
Synthetic Calibration of a Rainfall-Runoff Model
A method for synthetically calibrating storm-mode parameters for the U.S. Geological Survey's Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System is described. Synthetic calibration is accomplished...
Failure Modeling of Hydraulic Systems
Techniques of survival analysis are investigated for modeling the failure of hydraulic systems. The Proportional Hazards Model has the advantage of being able to separate the effects on...
Optimal Design of Highway Drainage Structures
Hydraulic design of a bridge or culvert using a risk-based approach is to choose among the alternatives the one associated with the least total expected cost. In this paper, the risk-based...
Scour in Non-Cohesive Beds at Culvert Outlets
An empirical relationship was developed to estimate the depth of scour in non-cohesive material at culvert outlets. The scour depth is expressed as a function of mean particle size of...
Bed Sediments and Bed Forms of the Lower Mississippi River
Approximately 500 bed material samples were collected from the thalweg of the Lower Mississippi River. At each sample location, a sonic record of the bed was obtained. From the appearance...
Sediment Concentration Measurements Below Small Headcuts
This study is designed to determine erosion rates downstream from a small headcut. The sediment concentration from a scour hole produced by a plunging jet is measured as a function of...
Variational Method in Fluvial Hydraulics?A Review
The theoretical base of the principle of minimum energy dissipation rate and other related stationarity hypotheses have been reviewed. Recent applications of the theory to the calculation...
Physical Modelling of Self Forming Alluvial Channels
A method is presented for the determination of a practicable physical model of self-forming channels in cohesionless alluvium. Both sand bed and gravel bed regime channels are considered....
Modeling a Large, Dynamic, Urban Drainage System
Impacts of progressive urbanization on peak streamflow are often difficult to quantify due to the dynamic, but subtle changes from year-to-year. In this instance urbanization impacts are...
Uncertainty Estimates for Rainfall-Runoff Model
Almost all rainfall-runoff link-node models in use today involve the subdivision of the catchment into smaller areas, linked together by a system of channel links. These 'link-node'...
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