The Chair's research spectrum

The Chair of Hydraulic Engineering with the affiliated Hubert Engels Laboratory conducts basic and contract research on hydraulic engineering topics such as

• the hydraulics of hydraulic engineering facilities (dams, reservoirs, dykes, dams, weirs, locks, culverts, hydropower plants, pipelines, fittings),
• the hydraulics of watercourses (especially during low and high water in urban areas, interaction of flow - vegetation - morphology, near-natural bank protection),
• river and lake morphology (in particular sediment management, bank protection, wind influence),
• hydraulic engineering (in particular ship-induced loads on waterways, navigability analyses),
• eco- and ethohydraulic processes and conditions (habitat assessment, fish migration aids).

For this purpose, multi-scale numerical methods (CFD) are used and developed, physical model tests are carried out in the associated Hubert Engels Laboratory as well as in-situ field tests and analytical and so-called hybrid, coupled methods are used.

Core research areas are urban flood risk management, near-natural watercourse development and watercourse assessment using habitat modeling as well as fish passability at transverse structures using ethohydraulic analyses and functional checks.