CURRENT RESEARCH
Many EHHE research projects covering a broad range of hydrologic and hydraulic engineering problems have been conducted at the UIUC Hydrosystems Laboratory. A list of ongoing projects is given below. More information about current projects can be found in the Summary of Engineering Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering .
Environmental Hydraulics and
Sedimentation
- Stability of meandering channels and streambank erosion
- Mechanics of sediment sorting in river bends
- Sediment-turbulence interaction in environmental boundary-layer flows Sediment transport by gravity currents in the ocean
- Sediment transport in storm sewers
- Sediment-laden flows through emergent vegetation
- Reservoir sedimentation
- Wetlands hydraulics and hydrology
- Relationships between wetland plant occurrence and hydrologic indicators
- Engineering of flow-sediment interaction to improve outfall design
- Submerged jet and wall jet flows
- Numerical modeling of submerged outfalls
Groundwater Transport
- Numerical methods for transport of reactive contaminants in heterogeneous aquifers
- A New Framework for Adaptive Sampling and Analysis During Long-Term Monitoring and Remedial Action Management
- Investigation
of Pore-Scale Processes Which Affect Soil Vapor Extraction
- Physically-Based
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Water Flow and Nitrogen Transport in
Tile-Drained Agricultural Fields
- Effects of Pore-Scale Mixing on Reactive Transport
Large Scale Hydrologic Processes
- Modeling large scale hydrologic processes
- Land - atmosphere interaction
- Precipitation analysis and modeling
- Applications of wavelet transforms for multiscale studies
- Spatial organization of soil moisture
- Zebra Mussel Transport in Rivers
