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,...
Surface Water Hydrology
A brief history is presented of activities in surface water hydrology by the Hydraulics Division since 1938. Included is an historical review of division activities in such areas as precipitation...
The CADD Landfill
Designing landfills with CADD, engineers have reduced cut and fill calculations from two weeks to two days. Aerial surveys arrive on magnetic tapes and are loaded into computers by in-house...
The Influence of Water Tables on Herbicide Losses
Atrazine and metolachlor were applied preemergent on April 22, 1987, to silage corn on high watertable fields which were either subsurface drained (104 mm drain tubes 1 m deep) or surface...
Water Marketing in California
In one of the world's consummate entrepreneurial environments, a commodity as vital as water is so difficult to buy and sell. Why has water marketing become widely used in...
Potential Flow Over a Wavy Bed: A Persistent Error
The standard small-amplitude theory of potential flow over a wavy bed is briefly discussed, together with the three special values of the Froude Number which define four different flow...
Modelling of Sand Bars in Coastal Environments
A mathematical model describes the formation of sand bars by progressive wind-generated waves. The model decomposes into several constituents linked together in a two step morphological...
A Method to Treat Incident Wave Condition in Shallow Water Equation
A method to consider open boundary condition of the shallow water equation to analyze water surface wave and tide is employed in the finite element anaysis. This can be done by considering...
Instability of Bed-Surface Composition Due to Sorting Process in a Stream Composed of Sand and Gravel
Wavy patterns of sorting are often observed in a stream composed of sand and gravel, and they are regarded as instability of bed-surface composition due to selective bed-load transport...
Infiltration of Water to the Ground in a Flood-Control Reservoir with Seepage
As storm water management in urban area with increasing amount of runoff, flood-control reservoir with the bed having large permeability to enrich the groundwater is considered. A dynamical...
Comparison of DAMBRK With DWOPER for Computing Water Surface Elevations at Stream Junctions
The National Weather Service computer programs DWOPER (Operational Dynamic Wave Model) and DAMBRK (Dam-break) are one-dimensional models using an implicit finite difference method of solution...
Improved Numerical Analysis of Steady Water Surface Profiles
As well as HEC-2 and similar models serve the profession, problems exist with their application. In general, inflexibility of use and inaccuracies around transitions between subcritical...
Cellular Automaton Simulation of Viscous Free Surface Fluid Dynamics
It has been demonstrated elsewhere that the simple interaction of a two dimensional field of discrete particles traveling on a regular lattice yields large scale behavior closely approximating...
Implementation of a Hydrodynamic Model for the Upper Potomac Estuary
A vertically integrated, two-dimensional hydrodynamic/transport model has been implemented for the upper extent of the Potomac Estuary between Indian Head and Morgantown, Md. The model...
Geostatistical Global Estimates and Sampling Design
In the environmental assessment of a contaminated site, several different evaluation criteria could be considered such as: estimation of the overall average contaminant concentration in...
Lower Santa Ana River Hydraulic Design for Levee Overtopping
The purpose of overtopping or freeboard design is to minimize damages and catastrophic failure from floodwaters overtopping levees. This case study is presented to show the approach taken...
Self-Aerating Spillway Flow
The concept upon which most past analyses are based is that a continuum exists in aerated flow from 100 percent water, to air bubbles in water, to a water-air mixture, to an air-water...
Numerical Prediction of the Turbulent Flow with a Free Surface for 3-Dimensional Situation
An efficient finite-difference method, the HH-SIMPLE, has been developed that is based on a new concept of hydraulic pressure with two additional equations concerning the water surface...
Real-Time Water Control Plan for a Flood Control Reservoir
A reservoir operation plan is prepared for a single-purpose flood control reservoir. Real-time precipitation data recorded at the dam is utilized to control the reservoir gate operations....
Hydrometric Networks Serving Hydropower Needs
The Water Resources Branch is the national agency that collects, interprets and disseminates standardized surface water quantity and sediment data and information in Canada. The Branch...
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