Abstract: The quasi-steady thermal ice growth model was recast in state-space form and used with the Kalman filter to estimate ice thickness and to recursively estimate the model parameters for thermal ice growth. This approach was ...

Abstract: The stresses induced in ice covers by river waves are investigated as a possible mechanism for causing transverse cracks during breakup. The maximum stress levels that river waves can cause in the ice cover are determined ...

Abstract: The propagation of waves in ice‐covered channels is analyzed using linearized forms of the three equations governing one‐dimensional unsteady flow in rectangular ice‐covered channels. The equations describe fluid continuity, ...

Abstract: Each winter, municipal water supply and thermal power plants drawing water from the Great Lakes face the problem of their water intakes becoming blocked by frazil ice formed in the lakes. Little is known about the manner ...

Abstract: We collided woody debris (i.e., logs) with structures using flume and test basin laboratory facilities to investigate the maximum impact force that floodplain structures are exposed to from floating woody debris. The tests ...

Abstract: An ice-control structure (ICS) for Cazenovia Creek in West Seneca, N.Y., will arrest a breakup ice run and hold the resulting ice jam throughout typical breakup events. While this will reduce downstream flood damages, water ...

Abstract: More than half of the commercially navigable waterways in the United States are adversely impacted at some time by ice and debris conditions that hinder operation and delay navigation. This paper describes a method of ...