Hydraulic engineering consulting

Consultancy is available in the following research areas:

Hydraulic Design:

• Hydraulic strutures
• Energy dissipator; Floods; Sediment transport; Spillway; Weirs. More about Timber crib weirs ... 
• Waterways; Storm waterways; Sewers; 
• Rubber dams; Diversion weirs; Rockfill channels. More about Rubber dams ... 
• Water quality.

Spillway Design

• High-head spillway; Cavitation damage; Aeration slots; Tunnel spillways; Bottom outlets; Energy dissipators. 
• Stepped spillways; Drop structures; Dropshafts; Stepped cascades; Overflow stepped chutes. 
• Air entrainment in spillways. More about Air entrainment on chutes spillways ... 
• Downstream water quality; Disolved oxugen content modelling; Re-oxygenation cascade.

Air-water flows

• Gas-liquid bubbly flows; Air bubble entrainment. 
• Plunging jets; Hydraulic jumps; Self-aerated flows; Open channel flows; Water jets. More on Tidal bores ... 
• Air lift pump design; Air bubble entrainment in sewers, dropshafts,at plunging breaking waves. 
• Air entrainment in spillway : Flow bulking; Drag reduction; Prevention of cavitation damage; 
• Air-water gas transfer; Re-oxygenation; Flow aeration.

Engineering Heritage

• History of dams; Study of old dams; Study of Australian dams; More about  a History of arch dams .... 
• History of spillways; Australian spillways; Roman spillways; More on Steel dams ... 
• Spillway refurbishment. 
• Roman aqueducts; Dropshafts; Steep chutes; Cascades.