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Institute of Water and River Basin Management - Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management

 

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  • Institut für Wasser und Gewässerentwicklung, Fachbereich Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft
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We are committed to develop research on four main themes:

  • Sustainable and secure water for supply, food and energy, including sustainable energy production and the role of hydropower to the energy transition, reservoir sustainability and the safety of hydraulic infrastructures.
  • Adaptive and multi-functional hydraulic systems, including navigability which is safe, sustainable and resilient to global change, management of increasingly extreme floods and droughts and redesign of urban networks.
  • Healthy rivers, including the transport cycle and valorization of driftwood, mechanic of sediment and plastic transport, landscape connectivity and dysconnectivity, river conservation, restoration and rewildening.
  • Geophysical processes in rivers and lakes, including shallow water equations for complexly bounded flows and reservoir and lake sedimentation.

We are open to cross-disciplinary research in themes which involve a relevant interaction of water with ecosystems, socio-economy, human behavior, history and arts.

In our mission, we procure research which responds to the societal challenges expressed in global development frameworks, capable of promoting societal change, by investigating processes in the natural and built environment which are determinant for the design, planning and implementation of sustainable water infrastructures prepared for global change.

 


Hydraulic Structures

  • Experimental investigation of flow patterns in hydraulic infrastructure (e.g. flood retention basins, outlet and inlet structures, hydropower plants, locks)
  • Optimisation of hydraulic structures and development of new hydraulic concepts

 

Hydraulics and morphodynamics of near-natural watercourses

  • Vegetation hydraulics, resistance behaviour of vegetation
  • Consideration of bedload balance (locally and at catchment level)
  • Analysis of morphological potential, field studies

 

Watercourse development measures

  • Development of measures to improve watercourse structure at local level (focus: restricted reaches)
  • Abiotics and biotics: river habitats
  • Deadwood transport in rivers
  • Ecological connectivity of rivers: Upstream and downstream migration of fish

 

Multiphase flows in hydraulic engineering

  • Flows of density-stratified fluids
  • Oxygen input in standing and flowing waters
  • Mobilisation, flocculation and sedimentation of suspended matter (reservoir sedimentation)

 

  Simulation of hydraulic structures

  • Application of one- and multi-dimensional hydrodynamic-numerical (HN) methods for the analysis of complex flow conditions (steady-state, transient)
  • Development and implementation of application-oriented HN methods for use in practice
  • Extensive pre- and post-processing

 

 

GIS technologies

  • Creation of digital terrain models under consideration of hydraulic requirements
  • Determination of inundation areas as well as damage potentials in endangered areas
  • Programming of application-optimized tools (GIS shells)
  • 3D visualization (animation / real-time navigation)
     

 

 

Flood management

  • GIS-based hydraulic river basin modelling
  • Quantification of the effects of construction measures on flood discharge
  • Risk assessment and damage potential analyses
  • Creation of hazard and risk maps as a basis for flood prevention
  • Real-time simulation
  • Development of decision support systems (DSS) for operational use in water management (incl. training and support of users)

 

 

Numerical models for the simulation of flow processes

  • Analysis and optimisation of hydraulic engineering structures in the context of structure rehabilitation and design (e.g. hydropower plants, weirs, withdrawal/return structures)
  • Optimised operation of barrages with regard to power generation, flood protection, navigation
  • Coupling of HN processes with automation technology; optimisation of water balance controllers
  • Application of hybrid or coupled model technology in cooperation with physical modelling

 

 

Solids transport / eco-hydraulics

  • Multidimensional simulation of solids transport in rivers, lakes and hydraulic structures
  • Morphodynamic analysis and prognosis studies
  • Simulation of technical and near-natural fishways as a basis for fish ecological assessments
  • Flow analyses in the context of watercourse renaturation and revitalization
  • Analysis and (further) development of near-natural flowing waters

 

 

Cross-platform use of hardware and software

  • CAD, GIS, simulation and visualisation systems
  • Software development / use of modern development environments
  • Linux / Windows
  • System administration
  • Computer-aided measurement technology

 

 

Under construction

  • Universitat de Valencia
  • Cardiff University
  • The University of Manchester
  • Delft University of Technology
  • Penn State University, USA
  • Deltares, The Netherlands
  • Utah Water Research Laboratory, USA
  • IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
  • Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, Germany
  • ETHZurich, Switzerland
Seminar@IWG-WB - 2022, October, 28th - Xiaofeng Liu, Ph.D., P.E.
 

Physics-Based and Data-Driven Modeling in Environmental Hydraulics

 

 

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Seminar@IWG-WB - 2022, July, 29th - Dr. Valentin Chardon

 

Can gravel augmentations and bank re-erosion may rehabilitate geomorphological functionality of large regulated rivers?

 

 

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Seminar@IWG-WB - 2022, July, 22nd - Dr. Isabella Schalko

 

Design of wood retention structures in rivers

 

 

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Seminar@IWG-WB - 2022, May, 22nd - Dr. Victor Chavarrias

 

Morphodynamic modelling with mixed-size sediment

 

 

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