Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory

Our Work: PhD Theses

• Niño, Yarko (1995). "Particle Motion in the Near Bed Region of a Turbulent Open Channel Flow: Implications for Bedload Transport by Saltation and Sediment Entrainment into Suspension." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Choi, Sung-Uk (1996). "Layer-averaged Modeling of Turbidity Currents with a Finite Element Method." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• López, Fabián (1997). "Open-channel Flow with Roughness Elements of Different Spanwise Aspect Ratios: Turbulence Structure and Numerical Modeling." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Parsons, Jeffery David (1998). "Mixing Mechanisms in Density Intrusions." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Admiraal, David Mark (1999). "Entrainment of Sediment by Unsteady Turbulent Flows." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Huang, Xin (1999). "Tow-dimensional Transient Flows and Stability of Concentrated Suspensions of Clay Particles and Rheology." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Schmidt, Arthur Robert (2002). "Analysis of Stage-Discharge Relations for Open-Channel Flows and their Associated Uncertainties." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Schwartz, John Steven (2002). "Stream Habitat Characterized by State-specific Flows and Three-dimensional Geomorphological Complexity: Development of Ecological Criteria for Stream Restoration Design." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Bombardelli, Fabian A. (2003). "Turbulence in Multiphase Models for Aeration Bubbly Flows."Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Fedele, Juan Jose (2003). "Bedforms and Gravity Underflows in Marine Environments." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Holmes, Robert Ray (2003). "Vertical Velocity Profiles in Sand-Bed Alluvial Rivers." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Rodríguez, José Fernando (2003). "Mean Flow and Turbulence Characteristics of Pool-riffle Structures in Low-gradient Streams." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Cataño, Yovanni A. (2005). "Burial of Short Cylinders Induced by Local Scour and Bedform Migration Under Waves Plus Currents." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Leon, Arturo S. (2006). "Improved Modeling of Unsteady Free surface, Pressurized and Mixed flows in Storm-sewer Systems." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Yang, Xuejun (2007). "3D Numerical Modeling of the Turbulent Flow in Hydraulic Structures." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Cantero, Mariano I. (2007). "Direct Numerical Simulation of Thermohaline and Particulate Density Currents." Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Future Disserations

Jorge Abad

Xiaofeng Liu

Francisco Pedocchi

Octavio Sequieros

J. Ezequiel Martin

Blake Landry