Experimental Sedimentology

Open Channel & Flash Flood Flumes

• Flash Flood Flume and Tsunami flume facility generates reproducible flood bores with an approximately 40 x 1.5 x 0.8 m flume with a computer-controlled headbox lift gate.
  Contact Joel Johnson
• Narrow Temperature-controlled Open Channel Flume is a custom built 5 m tilting flume (30 cm X 1 m).
  Contact M Bayani Cardenas

Experimental Basins

• The UT Experimental Deep Water Basin (4 x 8 x 2 m) models morphodynamic and stratigraphic evolution of continental margins and other subaqueous sediment transport systems.
  Contact David Mohrig
• UT Sediment Transport and Earth-surface Processes (STEP) Basin (4 x 5 x 1.5 m) models morphodynamic and stratigraphic evolution of the fluviodeltaic system with a computer-controlled basement motion which can mimic fore-hinge (passive margin), back-hinge (foreland basin), and lateral tilting subsidence patterns.

Wind Tunnel Experimental Facilities

Two Wind Tunnel/Flume Labs model aeolian transport: 1) features a long (0.5 m2 X 10 m) transport section ending in a slipface, and 2) features a 1m diameter rotating table to simulate any wind direction.
Contact David Mohrig

Hyporheic Channel Flow

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