Several artificial neural work (ANNs) software packages are available and being under use by researchers in different fields of sciences and engineering. These types of software could be used successfully by hydraulic engineers to simulate and predict hydraulic information. In this paper, three ANNs packages are used separately to predict hydraulic data of scour and hydraulic jump phenomena. Th...

This paper describes the scientific principles of Darcy’s law and hydraulic resistance as they relate to the in-ground dispersal of onsite wastewater effluent. A clear understanding of how water moves into the ground via dispersal trenches is needed to facilitate proper system design and effect some standardization of dispersal trench sizing and design. Hydraulic conductivity of the media, hydr...

A monopropellant powered free piston hydraulic pump (FPHP) was designed as a human scale (1.0 to 3.0 kW) mobile robotics power supply. The FPHP utilized high concentration hydrogen peroxide, which decomposes into hot gas when exposed to a catalyst, as the monopropellant energy source. Energy was extracted from the hydrogen peroxide and transferred directly to hydraulic fluid by expanding the ho...

soil hydraulic properties such as saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity play an important role in environmental research. since direct measurement of these soil hydraulic properties is time-consuming and costly, indirect methods such as pedotransfer functions and artificial neural networks (ann) were developed based on readily available parameters. in this study, the use of ann to pr...

Knowledge of hydraulic properties, such as hydraulic conductivity and soil moisture retention, is crucial for understanding flow and contaminant transport in the subsurface. Hydraulic properties are often important input parameters for numerical simulation of flow and transport. Unfortunately, acquisition of these properties is usually time consuming and costly because of the manual labor assoc...

Severe droughts have been associated with regional-scale forest mortality worldwide. Climate change is expected to exacerbate regional mortality events; however, prediction remains difficult because the physiological mechanisms underlying drought survival and mortality are poorly understood. We developed a hydraulically based theory considering carbon balance and insect resistance that allowed ...

Hydraulic conductivity and sorption coefficients for chlorinated hydrocarbons (chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and tetrachloroethylene) were evaluated for 216 sediment samples collected across a 15 m transect and a 21 m depth interval in a contaminated aquifer near Schoolcraft, Michigan. Relationships between hydraulic conductivity, linear sorption partition coefficients, grain size classes, a...

Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium vitis-idaea are two dwarf shrubs widespread in the European Alps. We studied the hydraulics of these species hypothesizing that (1) the hydraulic architecture of dwarf shrubs differs from trees, (2) hydraulic properties reflect the species' ecological amplitude and (3) hydraulic properties vary spatially and seasonally. Key hydraulic parameters (osmotic potenti...

Drought-related tree mortality occurs globally and may increase in the future, but we lack sufficient mechanistic understanding to accurately predict it. Here we present the first field assessment of the physiological mechanisms leading to mortality in an ecosystem-scale rainfall manipulation of a piñon-juniper (Pinus edulis-Juniperus monosperma) woodland. We measured transpiration (E) and mode...