Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Lab @ The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory is a 11,000 square-foot hydraulic research laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, part of the top-ranked Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Our Work

PUBLICATIONS

Abstracts • Books • Chapters in Books • Conference Proceedings • Hydraulic Engineering Series • Journal Articles • Monographs • M.S. Theses • Ph.D. Theses • Presentations • Technical Reports

SOFTWARE

RVR Meander

Basic Research

RIVERS

Flow Characteristics of Vegetated Channels • River Morphodynamics • Pool-riffles • ADV Flow Turbulence Performance Curves

SEDIMENT DYNAMICS

Turbidity Currents • Sediment Resuspension • Wave-ripple Bedforms and Burial • Oscillatory-scour Bedforms and Burial • Flow-particle Interaction • Oscillatory Flow Fields

ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS

Turbulent Jets • Bubble Plumes • Density Current Deposits

CFD

Discontinuous Density Currents • Turbulent Jets • Bubble Plumes • River Morphodynamics • Sediment Transport Modeling • Bedforms

Applied Research

RIVERS

Batavia Dam Restoration Study • Fox River at Yorkville • Flow Restrictor Study • Flow Drop Study • Bottleneck Analysis • Channel Capacity Analysis • Spillway Optimization • Bank Erosion Control with Weirs • Chicago River Density Currents

ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS

UV Disenfection Head Losses • Chicago River Density Currents • Tunnel And Reservoir Plan

HYDRAULIC MODELING

Hydraulic Transients • Chicago River Density Currents • Batavia Dam Restoration Study • Flow Restrictor Study • Flow Drop Study • Bottleneck Analysis • Channel Capacity Analysis • Turbulent Flow in Hydraulic Structures • Spillway Optimization • Canoe Chutes for Low-head Dams

CFD

Canoe Chutes for Low-head Dams • Turbulent Flow in Hydraulic Structures • Bank Erosion Control with Weirs