River Engineering

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The River Engineering division deals with questions of flood protection, driftwood and sediment transport as well as river revitalization and river restoration. The VAW laboratory of about 1800 m² in total size are of utmost importance for our work.

The main focus of our basic research projects is the better understanding of flow and transport processes to determine and to improve design criteria for different river engineering measures as e.g. for block ramps or driftwood and sediment retention constructions. This basic understanding is also needed to describe the morphodynamic processes in river reaches to predict their long-term behavior.

Contract research, using hydraulic scale models, is performed, to test and optimize the design of planned river engineering measures. Of increased importance are hybrid models as a combination of numerical simulations and laboratory experiments.