Pierre Julien on Bed Forms, High Concentration Flow, and Engineering Rules of Thumb

About this episode

Dr. Pierre Julien discusses bed forms, high concentration flow, and engineering rules of thumb in hydraulics.

Dr. Pierre Julien joined the Colorado State faculty almost 40 years ago, where he worked at CSU’s Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics laboratory. His book, Erosion and Sedimentation, is one of my most common references, and several of the algorithms we have in HEC-RAS (particularly for mud and debris flows) come directly from this text. But while Dr. Julien’s textbook includes as many partial differential equations and tensors as any other hydraulics text – maybe more – it...

People in this episode

Host: Stanford Gibson

Guest: Dr. Pierre Julien

Topics covered

• bed forms
• high concentration flow
• engineering rules of thumb
• erosion
• sedimentation
• hydraulics

Keywords

• bed forms
• high concentration flow
• engineering
• erosion
• sedimentation
• hydraulics
• algorithms

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Colorado State, HEC-RAS

Books & works: Erosion and Sedimentation

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