Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Environmental Engineering, Engineering History
YouTube channel by Professor Hubert CHANSON

Technical resources in Hydraulic engineering

YouTube video clips by Hubert Chanson

{https://www.youtube.com/@Hubert_Chanson}

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Fundamentals of open channel hydraulics

Bernoulli equation in open channel flows {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjQsYhixITY}

The Pitot tube {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I08JlzaPp1A}

How to predict the pressure distributions in free-surface flows? {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3jkvaHQiw}

Bernoulli principle and its application to smooth and short transition in open channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI2wrNsqTe4}

Specific energy in open channel flow {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKmueeSO4WM}

Critical flow conditions in open channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mk-lO1HWs4&t=10s}

Critical flow in open channel hydraulics {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUP1gW6Nong}

Critical flow calculations in open channels of irregular cross-sections {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb4svyfKd9A}

Critical flow conditions in sloping channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo2x_A1eisU}

Subcritical and supercritical flow in open channel {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxdYhWdUM5A}

Fluvial vs Torrential flows in open channel and free-surface flow {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDhXgXQzBXw}

Relationship specific energy versus water depth in open channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfgzRl0saXg}

Relationship discharge versus water depth in open channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6zVCeSxF_Y&t=18s}

Celerity of small wave and its propagation in open channel {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x338XO0sAU}

Hydraulic control in open channels: upstream and downstream controls {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDNT3Ar89KA}

The broad-crested weir {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy7HBdkmTnw}

Sluice gate hydraulics in open channel {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os4_VXAWo_A}

Hydraulics of a Sluice Gate {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5Ia29sVv4}

The free overfall {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxQ21A55vg}

Froude number {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1lJDZZ5sUA}

On the analogy between Mach and Froude numbers {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AstZWWemYYw}

Momentum equation in open channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdhadRQ5YaM}

Momentum principle and its application to open channel flows {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxtf2ecBBYM}

The vertical shaft outflow installed in an open channel - A problem set by Professor Frank Henderson {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrugocPvIbs}

The Hydraulic jump: Hydraulic jumps in open channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1E5vZUeN_w}

The hydraulic jump in open channel {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3R0AsFKtKo}

The Hydraulic jump theory: (1) Smooth rectangular channel {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Ul3Tw9Fac}

Can we use the Bernoulli principle to solve the hydraulic jump? Why not? {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NV90xB9b1A}

Momentum Considerations for Hydraulic Jumps and Bores in Natural Systems {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwaYqt4YlH4 }

Momentum equation applied to baffles blocks in hydraulic jump stilling basin {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaOBdIDkEuo}

Positive surge theory - Application of momentum principle to hydraulic jump in translation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruFJDY5zqG4}

Positive surge application - Quasi-steady flow calculations {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz_Dh_JYjLQ}

Normal flow and uniform equilibrium flow conditions in open channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_OCvnr0Yw}

Mild slope and steep slope in open channel flow {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrxs3dcJ5M}

Flow resistance in open channels (1) Basic considerations {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1wpDnJa8hc}

Flow resistance in open channels (2) Flow resistance calculations of flood plains {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmhytudUGI8}

The Moody diagram. What is it? How to use it? {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eER0482-1bM}

The Colebrook-White formula. Quid? {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80IiYz9GrQ}

Backwater in open channels {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEm3s-YTmgY}

Longitudinal free-surface profiles in gradually-varied open channel flows {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH4iuxL7AgM}

Backwater profiles in gradually-varied open channel flows {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJghflcmCek}

Backwater calculations in open channel. (1) Presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kufuccRT_VU}

Backwater calculations in open channel. (2) Standard step methods {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzhI2uJJH0M}

Backwater calculations in open channel. (3) Standard step method distance calculated from depth {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzZ9tdOHbo}

Backwater calculations in open channel. (4) Standard step method depth calculated from distance {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuGgmGEElug}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (1) {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0XR3t4p9bs}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (2) On scale effects {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMY8AXm8rV4}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (3) Reynolds similitude {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqZX5zj2AAk}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (4) Froude similitude {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68oa8noNMTY}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (5) Distorted Froude similitude {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynxOa6IQx6I}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (5.1) Distorted Froude similitude: presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh7rjaTCXYk}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (5.2) Hydraulic design of distorted Froude-similar models {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypC3RcHuZUs}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (5.3) Examples of distorted Froude scaled models {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC9ay26QtSQ}

Jean-Baptiste Bélanger and his contribution to hydraulic engineering {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb5v90Yu_4w}

Hydraulic structures

The sharp-crested weir {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-1RtxCyN_c}

The V-notch weir {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfJjnobzT6s}

The ogee crest {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8tahsiSXkU}

Hydraulic Design of Standard Culvert (1) Introduction {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PGQpZiqlhg}

Hydraulic Design of Standard Culvert (2) Box culverts {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4cY06blKM}

Hydraulic Design of Standard Culvert (3) Pipe culverts {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTp5Eis0fU}

Hydraulic Design of Standard Culvert (4) high tailwater conditions (d_tw > D to d_tw >> D) {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVW05J-uBTs}

Minimum Energy Loss culverts and bridge waterways (1) Development {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQjHY2Pf3Wk}

Minimum Energy Loss culverts and bridge waterways (2) Hydraulic design {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncuecJVNqzg}

Minimum Energy Loss weirs and spillways {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf3US9mYdL4}

Jean-Baptiste Bélanger and his contribution to hydraulic engineering {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb5v90Yu_4w}

Stepped Spillway Prototype Operation and Air Entrainment: Hinze Dam 2013-2021 flood events {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVDt6Ep5a4}

Surface Velocities and Free-surface Aeration in a Converging Smooth Chute during a Major Flood Event {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA7YgKg_4gM}

Hydrodynamics of Permeable Horseshoe Obstacle in Fluvial Environment: a Physical Modelling {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6H_zbuAhsU}

Advanced hydraulics of open channel flows

Saint-Venant equations. (1) Presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7FKefVaQ2k}

Saint-Venant equations. (2) Basic equations {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuLr_l8fXnY}

Saint-Venant equations. (3) The continuity equation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9kn9INsFw}

Saint-Venant equations. (4) The dynamic equation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMEpharHV4k}

Saint-Venant equations. (5) Simplification of the dynamic equation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeYwKk0Iy7M}

Saint‐Venant equations & the simplification of the dynamic equation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9TC5i9mXYQ}

Method of Characteristics in Open Channel Hydraulics. (1) Presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRCShWy69kc}

Method of Characteristics in Open Channel Hydraulics. (2) Graphical solution {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xcyKBsn6-s}

Method of Characteristics in Open Channel Hydraulics. (3) Boundary conditions {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_NhzCCCz7c}

Method of Characteristics in Open Channel Hydraulics. (4) Numerical integration incl. Hartree method {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAoWhd-YVRw}

Courant number {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lufl84-wWO8}

The monoclinal wave {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWYK4n3_Xg}

The forebay problem - Negative surge in a forebay {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JctYHKrSoHY}

Transcritical flow and undular flow in open channel (1) {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGAb4HQQHY}

Physical modelling in hydraulic engineering (5) Distorted Froude similitude {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynxOa6IQx6I}

Dam break. (1) Introduction {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAEjZyDwVE}

Dam break. (2) Ideal solution {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KbA4ktz5cY}

Dam break. (3) Dam break wave in wet canal {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MHGDTkoP9U}

Dam break. (4) Dam break wave on dry canal with friction {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-jNOPPTTas}

Dam break. (5) Dam break on inclined channel {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmBbeYPkers}

Optical measurements in dam spillways during major flood events: down-to-earth review of pros & cons {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJABGBmbUk}

Hysteresis, Non-Linearity and Instabilities on Circular Crested Weir {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx1JZiNemGk}

Applied hydrodynamics

Streamlines {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GdG5zLYEvE}

Joukowski foil {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIG1MV5mlrc}

The Pitot tube {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I08JlzaPp1A}

Hele-Shaw cell apparatus {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDLJ38f4vH8}

Joseph-Louis Lagrange {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8W478URxkE}

Jean-Charles de Borda {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIHwRjCv7x0}

The Borda-Carnot formula {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZmLQo4PL8}

The Preston tube {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmj9U-obA-Q}

Reynolds number {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFXjOnCM0mg}

Laminar and turbulent flows {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVz3O57z3rs}

Random walk model {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9y8gBVObzE}

The Moody diagram. What is it? How to use it? {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eER0482-1bM}

The Colebrook-White formula. Quid? {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80IiYz9GrQ}

Boundary layer (1) Presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZC37UIxQJs}

Boundary layer (2) von Karman momentum integral equation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14YMy7osO8E}

Prandtl mixing length (1) Presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJFYB35ffc}

Prandtl mixing length (2) Turbulent boundary layer application {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrUxlFRC8v4}

Laminar boundary layer (1) Presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By19aYo3K7A}

Laminar Boundary layer (2) the Blasius equation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXF8BPMGuq0}

Laminar Boundary layer (3) the Pohlhausen method {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOyyJMNEBP0}

Laminar Boundary layer (4) application of the momentum integral equation to a quadratic velocity distribution {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0c_eVZe-0s}

Von Karman street of vortices (1) Presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxoD64B2ndI}

Von Karman street of vortices (2) Experimental observations {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IMf639s2A}

Von Karman street of vortices (3) Mitigation measures {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOD-FrRKqtk}

Vortex shedding - Flow visualisation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvGwtBc0yzs}

Magnus effect (1) Presentation {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1aY4c4dS0Q}

Magnus effect (2) Flettner rotor ship {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iSo8fSEUhY}

Environmental hydraulics of open channel flow

Laminar and turbulent flows {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVz3O57z3rs}

Random walk model {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9y8gBVObzE}

Sediment transport in open channel

The Borda-Carnot formula {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZmLQo4PL8}

Shear velocity in hydraulics {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv_6n3lqJeg}

The shear Reynolds number Re_* {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akEVgzBIZ5Q}

Sediment particle settling velocity (1) {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcvLBlMHocI}

Sediment particle settling velocity (2) application {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD5QYLMebUE}

Other video movies on YouTube

Dam break wave, Tidal bore, In-river tsunami surge: what the hell? - {https://youtu.be/SQaPoSj2lP4} (Record at UQeSpace)

Challenging hydraulic engineering of the 21st century - {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2oJE3PxUPY}

Such a bore - {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mO5-wxnqTA}
Physical Modelling of Air Bubble Entrainment in Vertical Planar Plunging Jets - {https://youtu.be/GcAiBD4LpwM}
Stepped Spillway Research - {https://youtu.be/j_AsUXD4D3M}
Tidal Bore Research at the University of Queensland - {https://youtu.be/q1ieo7fQ6X8}
Fish-friendly waterways and culverts - Integration of hydrodynamics and fish turbulence interplay & interaction - {https://youtu.be/GGWTWDOmoSQ}

Video movies at UQeSpace
CHANSON, H. (2020). "Hydraulics of open channel flow: practical experiments at the University of Queensland, Australia." Collection, Generic Document, The University of Queensland, School of Civil Engineering, Brisbane, Australia (ISBN 978-1-74272-311-2). {https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/collection/UQ:734960}

EDLIN, S., LU, Z., and CHANSON, H. (2020). "The Broad-Crested Weir." Generic Document, The University of Queensland, School of Civil Engineering, Brisbane, Australia (ISBN 978-1-74272-311-2). {https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:734961}
SHI, S., ASTORGA MOAR, A., and CHANSON, H. (2020). "The Hydraulic Jump." Generic Document, The University of Queensland, School of Civil Engineering, Brisbane, Australia (ISBN 978-1-74272-311-2). {https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:734962}
LI, Y., LANCASTER, O., and CHANSON, H. (2020). "Backwater in a Long Channel." Generic Document, The University of Queensland, School of Civil Engineering, Brisbane, Australia (ISBN 978-1-74272-311-2). {https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:734963}
WUTHRICH, D., WUPPUKONDUR, A., and CHANSON, H. (2020). "Hydraulics of Culverts." Generic Document, The University of Queensland, School of Civil Engineering, Brisbane, Australia (ISBN 978-1-74272-311-2). {https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:734964}

Hubert CHANSON is a Professor in Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering and Environmental Fluid Mechanics at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests include design of hydraulic structures, experimental investigations of two-phase flows, applied hydrodynamics, hydraulic engineering, water quality modelling, environmental fluid mechanics, estuarine processes and natural resources. He has been an active consultant for both governmental agencies and private organisations. His publication record includes over 1200 international refereed papers and his work was cited over 13,000 times (WoS) to 27,000 times (Google Scholar) since 1990. His h-index is 47 (WoS), 51 (Scopus) and 80 (Google Scholar), and he is ranked among the 150 most cited researchers in civil engineering in Shanghai’s Global Ranking of Academics. Hubert Chanson is the author of twenty books, including "Hydraulic Design of Stepped Cascades, Channels, Weirs and Spillways" (Pergamon, 1995), "Air Bubble Entrainment in Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows" (Academic Press, 1997), "The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction" (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1st edition 1999, 2nd editon 2004), "The Hydraulics of Stepped Chutes and Spillways" (Balkema, 2001), "Environmental Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows" (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004), "Tidal Bores, Aegir, Eagre, Mascaret, Pororoca: Theory And Observations" (World Scientific, 2011), "Applied Hydrodynamics: an Introduction" (CRC Press, 2014). He co-authored three further books "Fluid Mechanics for Ecologists" (IPC Press, 2002), "Fluid Mechanics for Ecologists. Student Edition" (IPC, 2006) and "Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters. Hydraulics Guidelines to assist Upstream Fish Passage in Box Culverts" (CRC Press 2021). His textbook "The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows: An Introduction" has already been translated into Spanish (McGraw-Hill Interamericana) and Chinese (Hydrology Bureau of Yellow River Conservancy Committee), and the second edition was published in 2004. In 2003, the IAHR presented him with the 13th Arthur Ippen Award for outstanding achievements in hydraulic engineering. The American Society of Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute (ASCE-EWRI) presented him with the 2004 award for the Best Practice paper in the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering ("Energy Dissipation and Air Entrainment in Stepped Storm Waterway" by Chanson and Toombes 2002), the 2018 Honorable Mention Paper Award for "Minimum Specific Energy and Transcritical Flow in Unsteady Open-Channel Flow" by Castro-Orgaz and Chanson (2016) in the ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, the 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award, and the 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) presented him the 2018 Baker Medal. In 2018, he was inducted a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. Hubert Chanson edited further several books : "Fluvial, Environmental and Coastal Developments in Hydraulic Engineering" (Mossa, Yasuda & Chanson 2004, Balkema), "Hydraulics. The Next Wave" (Chanson & Macintosh 2004, Engineers Australia), "Hydraulic Structures: a Challenge to Engineers and Researchers" (Matos & Chanson 2006, The University of Queensland), "Experiences and Challenges in Sewers: Measurements and Hydrodynamics" (Larrate & Chanson 2008, The University of Queensland), "Hydraulic Structures: Useful Water Harvesting Systems or Relics?" (Janssen & Chanson 2010, The University of Queensland), "Balance and Uncertainty: Water in a Changing World" (Valentine et al. 2011, Engineers Australia), "Hydraulic Structures and Society – Engineering Challenges and Extremes" (Chanson and Toombes 2014, University of Queensland), "Energy Dissipation in Hydraulic Structures" (Chanson 2015, IAHR Monograph, CRC Press). He chaired the Organisation of the 34th IAHR World Congress held in Brisbane, Australia between 26 June and 1 July 2011. He chaired the Scientific Committee of the 5th IAHR International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures held in Brisbane in June 2014. He co-chaired the Organisation of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference held as a hybrid format in Brisbane, Australia on 6-10 December 2020.
His Youtube channel is: {https://www.youtube.com/@Hubert_Chanson}. His Internet home page is http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans. He also developed a gallery of photographs website {http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/photo.html} that received more than 2,000 hits per month since inception.

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