The Illinois GIS and Hydrologic Database
Development of the Illinois Geographic Information System (GIS) from 1983 to the present is described including the hardware configuration and ARC/INFO software. The database design at...
Application of Geographic Information Systems for Flood Risk Mapping
This paper presents an overview of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) efforts to automate flood risk mapping performed in support of the National Flood Insurance Program...
GIS Applications to the Water Resources Development Program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The ability that a Geographic Information System (GIS) offers to quickly reference multiple data sets to an overall base map and to one another provides the potential opportunity to greatly...
Development of a GIS for the U.S. Great Lakes Shoreline
The Computer Mapping Center of the Detroit District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is developing a Geographic Information System (GIS) to contain physiographic, demographic, and...
Overfall Stress and Pressure Distributions
The magnitude and distribution of hydraulic shear stress and pressure on the boundary of a straight drop overfall are presented for multiple overfall heights and flow rates. Hydraulic...
Jet Injection Model Studies for the City of Los Angeles
The Hypersion Treatment Plant for the City of Los Angeles is currently undergoing an expansion project. A major component of this system is a sludge recycling system. And it is essential...
Energy Dissipation Structure for Fixed-Cone Valves
Results of a model study to investigate the hydraulic performance of a proposed energy dissipation structure for fixed-cone valves are presented. Procedures for estimating pressures and...
Underwater Tunnel Inspection by Virginia Power Using a Submersible Robot
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station, has three large tunnels linking the upper and lower reservoirs. The 'Hydrover' submersible remotely operated vehicle (ROV)...
Southwest Pass Training Structure Alternatives
The U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station system of computer programs, TABS-2, was utilized to evaluate various structural plans for increasing channel velocities and sediment...
Vessel Induced Physical Effects in a Navigation Channel
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is investigating ways to improve lockage efficiency at the Marmet Locks on the Kanawha River, West Virginia. A physical effects prediction model have been...
Prediction of Siltation at a Point
This paper describes a zero-dimensional mathematical model which predicts siltation at a point on a cohesive sediment bed. The processes of erosion, deposition and consolidation are modelled...
A Numerical Analysis Approach to the Solution of Unsteady Flow in Open Channels
Several inherent characteristics of all current numerical simulations of the unsteady flow equations prevent total confidence in their use. Inconsistencies within the numerical procedures...
Grid Requirements for Numerical Models Containing Training Works
The numerical modeling of the rapid changes in flow variable in open channel flow systems containing training works, such as dikes, requires special attention in grid development. This...
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A two-component turbulence model is introduced for depth-average flow calculations in shallow open-channel flows. This model treats the bed-generated turbulence as a background component,...
High-Resolution Two Dimensional Advective Transport
The paper describes a two-dimensional high-resolution scheme for advective transport that is based on a Eulerian-Lagrangian method with a flux limiter. The scheme is applied to the problem...
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...
Far-Field Numerical Model Studies for Boston's New Secondary Treatment Plant Outfall Siting
By the late 1900s, Boston is scheduled to have built a new secondary treatment plant that combines the waste streams from two existing plant, and discharges the resulting liquid effluent...
Hydraulic Design Aspects of the Boston Outfall
The diffuser outfall under design for Boston must have the ability to be purged of seawater upon commissioning or following an accidental flow stoppage. The criteria governing the flushing...
Infiltration Trenches for Urban Runoff Control
A two-dimensional finite element model has been developed to simulate the transient flow in a variably saturated porous medium for the study of infiltration trenches. Parameters such as...
A Rational Approach to Selecting an Optimal Design Storm for Flood Control
A rational methodology is presented herein for determining the optimal design storm frequency when planning for flood protection in new urban areas. The technique was developed from an...
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