In response to a healthy water solution towards sustainability, ecohydraulic is a fast developing field of research. The objective to build this Ecohydaulics Flume is to enhance our understanding of the Ecohydraulics for sustainability.
The Ecohydaulics Flume houses a rectangular cross-section open-channel flume that is 13 m long by 1.0 m wide by 1.2 m deep with clear acrylic sidewalls for the observation area. The slope of the channel can be adjusted between 0.05% and 5.0%. The flume is equipped with the cutting-edge equipment (e.g., TOMO-PIV ADV). The flume is a multipurpose laboratory for experimental research focus on:
- Conventional and nature-like fishpass design/optimization and fish hydrodynamics,
- Interaction of flow and sediment transport along with habitat structure (e.g., boulder, vegetation),
- Turbulent flow properties and their influence on ecological communities,
- Removal/retrofitting techniques of barriers (e.g., culvert, dam) for better aquatic connectivity.
