Experimental Methods in Hydraulic Research

✍ Scribed by Stephen Coleman (auth.), Pawel Rowinski (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is clear that hydraulic research is developing beyond traditional civil engineering to satisfy increasing demands in natural hazards assessment and also environmental research. Our ability to describe processes in nature rests on the observation and experimental methods as well as on theoretical basics of various disciplines. Under such conditions experimental methods draw from various areas of human activities and research, i.e. from physics, biology, chemistry, aerospace research, oceanic research etc. The current volume, is the result of a meeting that took place during the 30th International School of Hydraulics in Poland and presents both the state of the art and ongoing research projects in which experimental methods play a key role. Authors from numerous leading laboratories and from various countries guarantee a representative sample of different studies at the frontier of the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Experimental Investigations of Sandy Riverbed Morphology....Pages 1-27
Entrainment Threshold of Loose Boundary Streams....Pages 29-48
Particle Imaging Velocimetry and Its Applications in Hydraulics: A State-of-the-Art Review....Pages 49-66
Turbulent Flow Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport: Laboratory Research with LDA and PIV....Pages 67-111
Studies for Nuclear and Pumped-Storage Power Plant Żarnowiec....Pages 113-122
Integrated Experimental and Computational Hydraulic Science in a Unique Natural Laboratory....Pages 123-131
Using Experimental Research for an Analysis of Sorption Term in Groundwater Contaminant Transport Equation....Pages 133-139
2D Simulation of Discontinuous Shallow Flows....Pages 141-153
Laboratory Modeling of Buoyant Jet in a Rotating Fluid....Pages 155-162
Analysis of Turbulent Flow Measurements in a Flume with Induced Upward Seepage....Pages 163-173
Changes of Sediment Distribution in a Channel Bifurcation – 3D Modeling....Pages 175-187
Model Investigations of Side Channel Spillway of the Złotniki Storage Reservoir on the Kwisa River....Pages 189-202
Sediment Investigation at the 30° Water Intake....Pages 203-214
Estimation of River Banks Influence on Tachoida Shape at the Meridian....Pages 215-223
Statistical Analysis of Topography of Isvika Bay, Murchisonfjorden, Svalbard....Pages 225-233
Assessing Validity of the Dead Zone Model to Characterize Transport of Contaminants in the River Wkra....Pages 235-245
Application of a Videometric Measurement System to Investigate Spatial Dike Breach....Pages 247-254
Spatial Variability, Mean Drag Forces, and Drag Coefficients in an Array of Rigid Cylinders....Pages 255-265
Experimental Study on Gabion Stepped Spillway....Pages 267-274
Bed Load Transport in a Physical Scale Model of Two Merging Mountain Streams....Pages 275-286
Cross-Section Changes in the Lower Part of a Mountain River After the Flood in Spring 2010, as Presented by Means of CCHE2D Program....Pages 287-297
Application of Hydrodynamics Model for a Case Study of the Kolbudy II Reservoir Embankment Hypothetical Failure....Pages 299-306
Some Observations on the Similarity of Tracer Data from a Small River....Pages 307-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-321

✦ Subjects

Hydrogeology;Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics;Fluid- and Aerodynamics;Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology;Energy Systems