TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering

Tidal stream power generation offers the prospect of predictable, low-CO2 power at a number of locations around the UK and the world. Previous assessments of tidal energy resources have taken the form of desk studies based on simplified navigational data. Where numerical model d…

A typical irrigation scheduling problem is one of preparing a schedule to service a group of outlets. These outlets may either be serviced sequentially or simultaneously. This problem has an analogy with the classical earliness/tardiness machine scheduling problems in operations…

Much of the world's available hydropower potential has been exploited, and within the western world attention is increasingly being focussed on hydropower sites with very low head dierences. These are sites where the vertical distance through which water falls is less than ve me…

The construction of water management and navigation structures often requires temporary works to exclude water to facilitate construction in the dry or at least under a lower water level within the construction area. The use of cellular cofferdams for both temporary and permanen…