Recent Publications by the Water Resources Engineering Group

The Water Resources Engineering Group at the University of Alberta, Civil Engineering department has an excellent record of publication in a broad range of subjects related to Water Resources Engineering. A serious effort has been made to document the findings of research in the major areas of research conducted here. The following is a current list of publications in referred international journas as well as reports and other technical publications. These will reflect a broad scope of research currently underway in the Water Resources Engineering Group. For publications in other areas of interest please refer to the major areas of research interest .

Refereed Journals

• Hicks, F.E., Chen, X. and Andres, D., Effects of Ice on the Hydraulics of the Mackenzie River at the Outlet of Great Slave Lake, NWT: A Case Study , Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Feb. 1995 (in press).
• Hicks, F.E. and Steffler, P., Comparison of Finite Element Methods for the St. Venant Equations , International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, (accepted for publication).
• Steffler, P.M. and Hicks, F.E., a discussion of, Wave Propagation in Ice-Covered Channels , by S. Daly (Vol. 119, No. 8, pp.), ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, (accepted for publication).
• Hicks, F.E., a discussion of, Modeling Spills on Grass and Impermeable Surfaces by McBean, Belore and Capka (Vol. 19, No.5, pp.906-911), Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 20, Dec 1993, pp. 1077.
• Gan, T.Y., A time series model for estimating the weekly winter maximum temperature of Northwest Territories, Submitted to Journal of Applied Meteorology, 1994.
• Steffler,P.M. and Jin, Y. Depth Averaged and Moment Equations for Moderately Shallow Free Surface Flows, Journal of Hydraulic Research, vol. 31,No.1, 1993
• Gan, T.Y., A retrospect to an international postgraduate program in water resources engineering, submitted to Journal of Engineering Education, 1994.
• Gan, T.Y., Trends in air temperature and precipitation for Canada and Northeastern United States, International Journal of Climatology, under review, 1994.
• Ahmad Z., R.Z. Harboe and T.Y. Gan, Climatic variation and hydrologic response of a tropical catchment in Thailand, submitted to Hydrological Science J., 1994.
• Rajaratnam, N. and Chamani, M. Hydraulics of Drops. Submitted to the IAHR Journal of Hydraulic Research.
• Hodgson, J.E. and Rajaratnam, N. A photographic study of circular jet discharges in crossflows of finite depth. Submitted to the IAHR Journal of Hydraulic Research.
• Rajaratnam, N., Rizvi, S.A.H., Steffler, P.M. and Smy, P.R. An experimental study of very high velocity circular water jets in air., IAHR Journal of Hydraulic Research. vol 32, No3, pp 461-470.
• Chamani, M. and Rajaratnam, N. (1994). Jet flow on stepped spillways. ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, vol. 120, No.2, pp. 254 - 259.
• Rajaratnam, N., Aderibigbe, O. and Pochilco, D. Erosion of sand beds by oblique plane water jets. Submitted to the Water, Maritime and Energy Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, U.K.
• Mainali, A. and Rajaratnam, N. (1994). Experimental study of debris flows. ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, vol. 120, No.1, pp. 104-123
• Rajaratnam, N. and Aderibigbe, O. (1993). A method for reducing scour below vertical gates. Proc. Instn. of Civil Engineers, U.K., Water, Maritim and Energy Journal, Vol. 101, pp. 7383.
• Rajaratnam, N., Johnston, G.A. and Barber, M.A. (1993). Energy dissipation by jet diffusion in stormwater drop shafts. CSCE Journal, Vol. 20, pp. 374-379.

Conference Presentations

• Ghanem, A., Steffler, P., Hicks, F. and Katapodis, C. Two-Dimensional Finite Element Modeling of Physical Fish Habitat, Proceedings, 1st International Symposium on Habitat Hydraulics, Aug. 1994, Trondheim, Norway.
• Hicks, F.E., Chen, X. and Andres, D., "Effects of Ice on the Hydraulics of the Mackenzie River at the Outlet of Great Slave Lake, NWT", Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Fredericton N.B., June, 1993, pp. 623-632.
• Hicks, F.E., "Ice as the Geomorphologic Agent in an Anastomosing River System", Canadian Conference on River Ice Hydraulics, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August , 1993 (in press).
• Gerard, R., Jasek, M. and Hicks, F., "Synthetic Ice Jam Simulations on the Yukon River near Dawson" Proceedings, 9th International Northern Research Basins Symposium/Workshop, August 1992, Yukon/NWT, pp. 653-672.
• Dwivedi, V., Rajaratnam, N. and Katopodis, C. (1003). An exploratory study of fish habitat structures in rivers. Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference, Fredericton, pp. 573581.
• Rajaratnam, N. and Steffler, P.M. (1993). Integrating the teaching of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics. Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference, Fredericton, pp. 277282.
• Mazurek, K. and Rajaratnam, N. (1993). Investigation of sanding in wells. Presented at the Oil Well Sanding Working Group meeting in Calgary.

Reports

• Hicks, F.E. and Andres, D., 1993 Breakup Observations on the Mackenzie River at the Ft. Providence Ferry Crossing Water Resources Engineering Report No. 94-H1, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Feb. 1994.
• Hicks, F.E., Yasmin, N. and X. Chen, Peace River Flow Analysis Water Resources Engineering Report No. 94-H2 (Northern River Basins STudy Project 1154-C1), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, March 1994.
• Hicks, F.E., Cui, W. and Wong, J., Volume Runoff and Peak Flow Equations for Seven Yukon Basins Water Resources Engineering Report No. 93-H1, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, March, 1993.
• Hicks, F.E. and Andres, D., 1992 Breakup Observations on the Mackenzie River at the Ft. Providence Ferry Crossing Water Resources Engineering Report No. 92-5, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Feb. 1993.
• Gan, T.Y., A retrospect to an international educational program in water resources engineering, ASEE Annual Conference proceedings, Edmonton, 26-29 June, 1994, I:1109-1113.
• Gan, T.Y., Estimating areal snow water equivalent of Northwest Territories using passive microwave data, Proceedings of 11th Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineers, Fredericton, Vol I, 21-30, 1993.