VERTICAL VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN SAND-BED ALLUVIAL RIVERS

BY

ROBERT RAY HOLMES, JR.

PhD Dissertation

(Boat and Instrument Setup for Field Data Collection, Missouri River at St. Charles, MO, June 19, 2002)

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OUTLINE

COVER, ABSTRACT, ACKNOWLEDGEDMENTS, TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

CHAPTER 3. EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS AND APPROACH

CHAPTER 4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS: VELOCITY PROFILES

CHAPTER 5. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS: SHEAR PARTITIONS

CHAPTER 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

VITA

This dissertation was conducted under the direction of Professor Marcelo Garcia in the Environmetal Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering Program at the University of Illinois Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory