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Quicklinks: Areas of Study
Water Resources Engineering
Faculty
- Dr. Hanif Chaudhry, Professor and Chairman
- Dr. Michael E. Meadows, Associate Professor
- Dr. Jasim Imran, Associate Professor
- Dr. Jon Goodall, Assistant Professor
Facilities
Laboratory facilities
The Hydraulics Laboratory is a two-story facility with over 7,300 square feet of
floor space that includes a large bay area, a balcony demonstration area, storage
rooms, student offices and a high performance computer laboratory. The laboratory
is equipped with a large glass-sided flume, a multi-purpose physical model basin,
large flow capacity, and various standard demonstration setups. Construction of
a large tilting flume is currently underway. The laboratory has several demonstration
setups on head losses in pipes, series and parallel operation of centrifugal pumps,
groundwater flow, weirs, and water surface profile.
Model Basin
- Large floor area (40 ft x 14 ft) and 4 ft depth.
- Recirculating flow up to 5,600 gallons per minute.
- Movable instrumentation bridge.
- Generic facility suitable for easy fabrication of physical models.
- Automated bed profiler for measuring bed level change in mobile bed experiments
(is being acquired)
Large Fixed Bed Flume
- 40 ft long, 3.25 ft wide, and 4 ft deep.
- Glass wall for the entire length of the flume.
- Sloping false floor.
- Recirculating flow capacity of up to 5,600 gallons per minute.
- Sediment recess bed for scour study.
- Erosion test bed.
- SonTek® Micro-ADV for three-axis velocity measurement with high sampling rates.
Research
Research Foci
- Mathematical modeling of open-channel and closed-conduit flows
- Hydraulic transients
- Fluvial and marine sediment transport
- Scour around bridge piers
- Stratified flow
- Debris Flow
- Urban storm water management
- Hydrology of vegetated landfill covers
- Storm water model development
- Moisture measurement in the unsaturated zone
- Ground water modeling
- Analytic element modeling of regional groundwater Flow
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