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Marcelo Garcia

    Marcelo Garcia

    Geomorphologists have long recognized the importance of pools and riffles in the development and maintenance of straight, meandering and braided streams. The ecological importance of pools and riffles has also been acknowledged, with the... more
    Geomorphologists have long recognized the importance of pools and riffles in the development and maintenance of straight, meandering and braided streams. The ecological importance of pools and riffles has also been acknowledged, with the associated hydraulic variability contributing to the habitat richness required for the development of a healthy ecosystem. Most of the pool-riffle studies to date have concentrated on
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    Physical Habitat Analysis and Design of In-Channel Structures on a Chicago, IL, Urban Drainage: A Stream Naturalization Design Process. [ASCE Conference Proceedings 112, 189 (2002)]. John S. Schwartz, Edwin E. Herricks ...
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    In this paper, we focus on bubble plumes aimed at providing oxygen to, and at mixing unstratified water bodies. First, we discuss scaling relations obtained from a three-dimensional (3D) theoretical model for multi-component fluids.An... more
    In this paper, we focus on bubble plumes aimed at providing oxygen to, and at mixing unstratified water bodies. First, we discuss scaling relations obtained from a three-dimensional (3D) theoretical model for multi-component fluids.An expression for a length scale that represents a balance between inertia and buoyancy is derived, and it is used to scale vertical as well as horizontal
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    Bubble plumes are planned to provide mixing and aeration in a large reservoir to hold combined sewage from flood events in the Chicago area. We performed physical experiments and numerical simulations to help in the design and operation... more
    Bubble plumes are planned to provide mixing and aeration in a large reservoir to hold combined sewage from flood events in the Chicago area. We performed physical experiments and numerical simulations to help in the design and operation of the reservoir. For the design conditions a one-dimensional model of the plume shows that the effects of mass transfer and bubble
    The large variations in the inflows together with the complex operation of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) systems may result in flow conditions that vary from dry to free surface flow to partly free surface-partly pressurized flow (mixed... more
    The large variations in the inflows together with the complex operation of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) systems may result in flow conditions that vary from dry to free surface flow to partly free surface-partly pressurized flow (mixed flow), to fully pressurized flow. Transitions from one flow regime to another are governed by flow instabilities (Yen 1986). Some of these instabilities may produce undesirable events such as geysering phenomena, blow-off of manhole covers, manhole overtopping or structural damage of the system. In ...

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