Faculty Research Projects/Publications

Hydraulics and Hydrologic Engineering

Publications

• Ojha, R., Prakash, A., Corradini, C., Morbidelli, R., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2015), "Temporal moment analysis for vertical solute transport in heterogeneous soils," Journal of Hydrology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.076, 521, 261-273.
• Ramadas, R., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2015). "Probabilistic assessment of agricultural droughts using graphical models," Journal of Hydrology, 526, 151-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.09.026
• Ojha, R., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2015). "A physical scaling model for aggregation and disaggregation of field-scale surface soil moisture," Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 25, 075401 (2015); doi: 10.1063/1.4913235, 14 pages.
• Mallya, G., Tripathi, S., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2015). "Probabilistic drought classification using gamma mixture models," Journal of Hydrology, 526, 116-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.008
• Morbidelli, R., Saltalippi, C., Flammini, A., Cifrodelli, M., Corradini, C., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2015). "Infiltration on sloping surfaces: laboratory experimental evidence and implications for infiltration modelling," Journal of Hydrology, 523, 79-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.01.041.
• Ramadas, M., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2015). "Choice of hydrologic variables for probabilistic drought classification: a case study." ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 05015013-1 to 05015013-14, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000981.
• Hoque, Y., Tripathi, S., Hantush, M.M., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2016). "Development of aggregate measures of watershed reliability, resilience and vulnerability using relevance vector machine and variational Bayesian noisy principal component analysis," Journal of Environmental Quality, doi:10.2134/jeq2015.10.0508.
• Mallya, G., Niyogi, D., Tripathi, S., Mishra, V., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2016). "Trends and variability of droughts over the Indian monsoon region," Weather and Climate Extremes, 12, 43-68, doi: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094715300578.
• Morbidelli, R., Corradini, C., Saltalippi, C., Flammini, A., Brocca, L., Cifrodelli, M., and Govindaraju, R.S., (2016). "An investigation of the effects of spatial heterogeneity of initial soil moisture content on surface runoff simulation at a small watershed scale," Journal of Hydrology, 539, 589-598, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.067.

• Lyn, D.A., and Blatchley III, E.R., (2005). "CFD-based models of ultraviolet disinfection channels", ASCE J. Environmental Engineering, vol. 131, no. 6, June, 2005, pp. 838-849
• Lyn, D.A., (2004). "Steady and unsteady simulations of turbulent flow and transport in ultraviolet disinfection channels", ASCE J. Hydraulic Engineering, 130, no. 8, August, pp. 762-770.
• Lyn, D.A., and Altinakar, M., (2002). "The St-Venant-Exner equations for near-critical and trans-critical flows", ASCE J. Hydraulic Engineering, 128, no. 6, pp. 579-587.
• Lyn, D.A., (2000). "Regression residuals and mean profiles in uniform open-channel flows", ASCE J. Hydraulic Engineering, 126, no. 1, pp. 24-32.
• Chiu, K.P., Lyn, D.A., Savoye, P., and Blatchley III, E.R., (1999). "Effect of UV system modifications on disinfection performance", ASCE J. Environmental Engineering, 125, no. 5, pp. 459-469.
• Keskar, J., and Lyn, D.A., (1999). "Computations of laminar incompressible backward-facing step flow at Re = 800 with a spectral domain decomposition method", International J. for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 29 (4), Feb. 28, pp. 411-427.

(Pedagogical publications located here)

• Choi, J.M., C.D. Troy, N. Hawley, M. McCormick, and M.G. Wells (20xx) Lateral dispersion of dye and drifters in the center of a very large lake. Accepted, Limnology and Oceanography
• Cannon, D.J., C.D. Troy, Q. Liao, and H. Bootsma (2019)  Ice-free radiative convection drives spring mixing in a large lake.  Accepted, Geophysical Research Letters
• Cannon, D. J., & Troy, C. D. (2018). Observations of turbulence and mean flow in the low‐energy hypolimnetic boundary layer of a large lake. Limnology and Oceanography
• Shen, C., Q. Liao, H.A. Bootsma, C.D. Troy, and  D. Cannon (2018). Regulation of plankton and nutrient dynamics by profundal quagga mussels in Lake Michigan: a one-dimensional model, Hydrobiologia, 1-17.
• Jameel, Y., S. Stein, E.F. Grimm, C. Roswell, A.E. Wilson, C.D. Troy, T. Hook, and G.J. Bowen (2018).  Physicochemical characteristics of a southern Lake Michigan river plume.  Journal of Great Lakes Research, 44(2), 209-218.
• Zischke, M., D.B. Bunnell, C.D. Troy, E.K. Berglund, D.C. Caroffino, M.P. Ebener, J.X. He, S.P. Sitar, and T.O. Höök (2017).  Asynchrony in the inter-annual recruitment of lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis in the Great Lakes region.  Journal of Great Lakes Research, in press and available online.
• Honsey, A.E., D.B. Bunnell, C.D. Troy, D.G. Fielder, M.V. Thomas, C.T. Knight, S.C. Chong, and T.O. Höök (2016).  Recruitment Synchrony of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens, Percidae) in the Great Lakes Region, 1966-2008.  Fisheries Research, 181, 214-221.
• Bunnell, D. B., Höök, T. O., Troy, C. D., Liu, W., Madenjian, C. P., & Adams, J. V. (2016). Testing for synchrony in recruitment among four Lake Michigan fish species. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 999(1-10).
• Troy, C.D., D. Cannon, Q. Liao, and H. Bootsma (2016).  Logarithmic velocity structure in the deep hypolimnetic waters of Lake Michigan.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121(1). 949-965.   
• Tan, J., K.A. Cherkauer, I. Chaubey, C.D. Troy, and R. Essig (2016).  Water Quality Estimation of River Plumes in Southern Lake Michigan Using Hyperion, Journal of Great Lakes Research, 42(3), 524-535.
• Choi, J. M., Troy, C. D., & Hawley, N. (2015). Shear dispersion from near‐inertial internal Poincaré waves in large lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 60(6), 2222-2235.
• Coulter, D. P., Sepúlveda, M. S., Troy, C. D., & Höök, T. O. (2015). Species‐specific effects of subdaily temperature fluctuations on consumption, growth and stress responses in two physiologically similar fish species.  Ecology of Freshwater Fish.
• Withers, J.L., T.M. Sesterhenn, C.J. Foley, C.D. Troy, and T.O. Höök (2015).  Diets and growth potential of early stage larval yellow perch and alewife in a nearshore region of southeastern Lake Michigan.  Journal of Great Lakes Research, Volume 41, Supplement 3, Pages 197-209
• Coulter, D. and M.S. Sepúlveda, C.D. Troy, T.O. Höök (2014). Thermal habitat quality of aquatic organisms near power plant discharges: potential exacerbating effects of climate warming. Fisheries Ecology and Management. 21: 196-210.
• Ahmed, S., C.D. Troy, and N. Hawley (2014). Spatial structure of internal Poincaré waves in Lake Michigan. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 14:1229.
• Choi, J. M., C. D. Troy, T.-C. Hsieh, N. Hawley, and M. J. McCormick (2012). A Year of Internal Poincaré Waves in Southern Lake Michigan. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2012JC007984.
• Troy, C.D., Ahmed, S., Hawley, N., and A. Goodwell . (2012) Cross-shelf thermal structure in Lake Michigan during the stratified periods, Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 117, C02028, 16 PP., 2012, doi:10.1029/2011JC007148.
• Hult, E.L., C.D. Troy, and J.R. Koseff (2011). The mixing efficiency of interfacial waves breaking at a ridge. Part I: Overall mixing efficiency, Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 116, C02003, doi:10.1029/2010JC006485.
• Hult, E.L., C.D. Troy, and J.R. Koseff (2011). The mixing efficiency of interfacial waves breaking at a ridge. Part II: Local Energetics. Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 116, C02004, doi:10.1029/2010JC006488.
• Hult, E.L., C.D. Troy, and J.R. Koseff  (2009).  The breaking of interfacial waves at a submerged bathymetric ridge.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 637, 45-71.
• Troy, C.D., and J.R. Koseff (2006). The viscous decay of progressive interfacial waves. Physics of Fluids, 18, 026602.
• Troy, C.D., and J.R. Koseff (2005). The instability and breaking of long internal waves.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 543, 107-136.
• Troy, C. D., & Koseff, J. R. (2005). The generation and quantitative visualization of breaking internal waves. Experiments in fluids 38(5), 549-562.

Current Research Projects

• 09/15 - 08/17, EPA, Decision Support Tool for Risk-Based Watershed Management
• 01/11 - 03-15, USDA, Development of drought triggers for agricultural applications
• 09/12 - 08/15, NSF, CMG Research: A copula-based probabilistic approach for space-time characterization of droughts

• "A truck-mounted scour-monitoring system", Federal Highway Adm./Joint Transp. Research Proj., 2005-2007
• "Factors contributing to the accumulation of debris at bridge piers", Federal Highway Adm./Joint Transp. Research Proj., 2003-2005
• "Modeling of UV disinfection systems", Water Environment Research Foundation, 2000-2004
• "Effectiveness of Debris Deflectors", Federal Highway Adm./Joint Transp. Research Proj., 2000-2003
• "Scour Monitoring of Bridge Piers in Indiana", Federal Highway Adm./Joint Transp. Research Proj., 2000-2002
• "Hydrodynamic Mixing Effects on Micro- and Macro- Emulsification...", US Environmental Protection Agency, 1998-1999