Consulting: Hydraulics

The hydraulics group has been involved in a number of specialist consulting activities, either as direct consulting, applied research, or as a sub-consultant providing expert advice. We have expertise in most aspects of hydraulics, engineering fluid mechanics, and applied mathematics. Model testing and consulting in the large Michell Laboratory (containing towing tank and carriage, wave tank, fully developed boundary layer flume, etc) and the smaller Sexton Laboratory is coordinated by the group.

The group offers specialist consulting in the following areas:

• Open channel hydraulics
• Pipeline systems
• Flow past hydraulic structures
• Flow of pedestrians
• Coast and ocean engineering

Specific contacts for each of the areas listed above are provided with linked information. For general consulting enquiries please contact:

Assoc Prof Roger Hughes
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010 Australia

T: +61 3 83444793
F: +61 3 83444616
E:

Open Channel Hydraulics

We act as consultants in the following areas:

• Computational hydraulics - computation and simulation of floods and transients in rivers and canal systems; flood routing
• Flow measurement - streamgauging, ultrasonic and other methods; measurement of roughness
• Streamgauging and rating curves - theoretical and practical aspects
• River rehabilitation - the hydraulics of rivers and particularly the effects on flood levels of obstacles in streams
• Two-dimensional overland flow

Contact

Prof John Fenton

Pipeline systems

• Measurement of flow - orifice plate, ultrasonic, and all other methods
• Leakage from distribution systems

Contact

Prof John Fenton

Flow Past Hydraulic Structures

• Measurement of flow
• Spillways - sharp- and broad-crested, undershot, leaf gates
• Flow over embankments

Contact

Assoc Prof Roger Hughes

Flow of Pedestrians

• The motion of very large crowds
• Safety issues associated with dense crowds

Contact

Assoc Prof Roger Hughes

Coastal and ocean engineering

• Wave theory, computation of wave propagation, provision of software, notably the program Fourier
• Forces on structures - piled jackets, sea walls, breakwaters
• Coastal engineering investigations

Contact

Prof John Fenton