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Fall 2014
Discarded tires have been an environmental concern in different parts of the world. One mass application to avoid such environmental concern is to use them as embankment fill material in civil engineering projects. In such applications, discarded tires are usually used in a shred form referred as...
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Spring 2023
Circular turbulent jets are essential in many engineering applications and are thoroughly studied. Most of these studies involve stationary jets. Contemporary studies lack the understanding of translating jets partly because the experimental setup is complicated, and computational models cannot...
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Fall 2013
Landslides include various forms of geological mass movements such as falls, slides and flows under the force of gravity. Predictions of landslide kinematics and dynamics require knowledge of flow behaviour and mathematical modeling. Research into the flow behaviour of granular materials has...
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Hydraulics of the vertical slot fishway, a case study on the Vianney-Legendre fishway in Quebec, Canada
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To follow is a case study on the hydraulics of the Vianney-Legendre vertical slot fishway on the Richelieu River in southwestern Quebec, Canada. This fishway is made up of three segments of linearly connected regular pools connected via two turning pools. It is known to pass multiple species of...
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Spring 2011
This thesis is primarily focused on flow-field upstream of hydropower intakes, with emphasis on the use of temperature control curtains and predicting the flow acceleration zone. By reviewing the available literature, it is concluded that the flow-field upstream of hydropower intake systems can...
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Fall 2017
Sinkholes are frequently reported around the world, and soil erosion around defective sewer pipe is found to be one of the possible cause of sinkholes. As water infiltrates through the defect in a pipe, soil can be washed into the pipe leading to a cavity or even sinkhole formation. Besides,...
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Fall 2017
This research focuses on the study of mechanisms of proppant transport in reservoirs during frac-packing operation. As an attempt to improve current numerical modeling of proppant transport, a multi-module, numerical proppant, reservoir and Geomechanics simulator was developed, linked and...
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Fall 2018
Uncontrolled air movement in sewer systems can lead to odor issues (i.e. H2S releasing), geysers, flooding, manhole cover blowup and public safety and health concerns, etc. However, the movement of the air flow in sewer systems has not been understood well, especially on the fundamentals of the...
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Spring 2016
The development of hydropower facilities greatly affects the morphology of regional water resources, as well as the physical, chemical and biological factors of upstream aquatic ecosystems. Evaluating the environmental impacts of hydropower operations is important in a regulatory context. Of...
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Fall 2016
Studying sediment in storm sewer systems is important for their operation and design of storm sewer systems. This thesis presents a literature review on the existing work on sediment in storm sewer and the current results of experimental studies on sediment motion and settlement in storm sewer...