Jose M. Mier's research while affiliated with University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and other places

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Oscillatory boundary layer (OBL) flows over a smooth surface are studied using laser Doppler velocimetry in a large experimental oscillatory flow tunnel. The experiments cover a range of Reynolds numbers in the transitional regime (Reδ=254−1315). Motivated by inconsistencies in the literature, the focus is to shed light regarding the phase shift Δϕ...
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Understanding the conveyance of sewer networks is vital, especially in cases of great variability in flow rates, such as in combined sanitary and storm sewer systems. Conventional conveyance studies in sewer systems often have extended computation times due to complexity of the solution, or alternatively make assumptions that ignore the water-surfa...
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Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and street flooding are undesirable consequences of insufficient capacity of sewer networks and wastewater systems. These conditions degrade the water quality of the receiving waters, potentially damage infrastructure, and threaten public health. Significant efforts to prevent CSOs and alleviate flooding have been un...
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Exploratory measurements of oscillatory boundary layers were conducted over a smooth and two different rough beds spanning the laminar, transitional and turbulent flow regimes using a multi-camera 2D-PIV system in a small oscillatory-flow tunnel (Admiraal et al. in J Hydraul Res 44(4):437-450, 2006). Results show how the phase lag between bed shear...
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The lake levels in Lake Michigan-Huron have recently fallen to near historical lows, as has the elevation difference between Lake Michigan-Huron compared to Lake Erie. This decline in lake levels has the potential to cause detrimental impacts on the lake ecosystems, together with social and economic impacts on communities in the entire Great Lakes...
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Communicated by Joseph DePinto Keywords: Glacial till Shear stress Erosion Sediment transport Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) Great Lakes Variations in water level observed in Lakes Michigan and Huron during the last few decades have motivated a comprehensive study involving climatic, hydrologic and hydraulic factors organized by International Join...
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This work deals with oscillatory boundary layers over smooth and rough beds for flows in the laminar and laminar-to-turbulent transition regimes (Re w = 0.4 ~ 2 ·10 4). Measurements were conducted with PIV in an oscillatory tunnel for flow with a purely sinusoidal velocity variation. Two cameras were set side-by-side in order to increase the field...

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... Several OBL studies (e.g. Spalart & Baldwin 1987;Scandura 2007;Scandura et al. 2016; van der A, Scandura & O'Donoghue 2018;Fytanidis, García & Fischer 2021;Mier, Fytanidis & García 2021) considered the simplified case of flow over a smooth wall. For practical OBLs that occur in the coastal zone, the seabed is rough, composed of sediment particles. ...
... Specifically, UIUC has developed an integrated urban hydrology and hydraulic suite of models, one of which is known as a connecting structure-tunnel and reservoir plan (CS-TARP). A detailed description of CS-TARP can be found in Cantone and Schmidt (2011), Luo et al. (2014), and Oberg et al. (2017. The studies by Quijano et al. (2017), Zhu et al. (2017), and Morales et al. (2017) show the importance of simulating CSO volumes with CS-TARP and its integration into other hydrodynamics models of the CAWS. ...
... The state-of-the-art in research has demonstrated that a reduced complexity approach to CSO modelling can be used to create accurate simulations in a fraction of the time (Nielsen et al., 2007;Morales et al., 2017). This enables modelling of CSOs in contexts that require rapid simulations, for example, Lund et al. (2020) use surrogate modelling to control CSO behaviour with optimisation of Model Predictive Control (MPC). ...
... The assumed values that concern the bed [1] can stay constant in the whole range. However, the roughness values can be variable in the conditions of flooding [2][3][4][5][6] and the bottom can be reshaped as a result of erosion and/or accumulation [7,8]. Calculations that allow one to determine the estimation of changes in the bottom's sieve curve, in the case of flood passing, have been previously performed using the classic formulas [9]. ...
... Jonsson and Carlsen (1976), Sleath (1989), Kemp and Simons (1983); Lin and Hwuang (2002), Ojha et al. (2019), and the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) has also become favorable in these years (e.g. Ahmed and Sato, 2003;Admiraal et al., 2006;Van der A et al., 2011;Mujal-Colilles et al., 2014). However, the dark, blind underwater environment, as well as the strong wave force, makes it hardly possible to install and operate an optical equipment that requires a quiescent, undisturbed environment, not to mention the difficulty of injecting the liquid tracer. ...
... Broader work focusing on the subject of glacial legacy on river/valley form was mainly done in mountainous terrains Hassan, 2006, 2007;Amerson et al., 2008;Addy et al., 2011;Gomez and Livingstone, 2012;Prasicek et al., 2014;Addy et al., 2014;Hassan et al., 2014), and occasionally in lowland semi-alluvial settings (Fola and Rennie, 2010;Collins and Montgomery, 2011;Phillips and Desloges, 2014, 2015a, 2015bThayer and Ashmore, 2016;Papangelakis et al., 2019). Small-scale laboratory flume experiments were used in isolating specific processes of interest in semi-alluvial channels (Kamphuis, 1983;Kamphuis et al., 1990;Mier and Garcia, 2011;Pike et al., 2018;Papangelakis et al., 2021;Peirce et al., 2021). ...