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.

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