Unit of Hydraulic Engineering
 

Water Resources are of extraordinary importance for humankind. Besides practice-oriented research activities intensive scientific research in different fields of hydraulic engineering is done at the Unit of Hydraulic Engineering. Main topics of interest thereby are hydropower utilization, dam-safety, sediment transport processes, flood forecasting models, flood protection and of course numerical simulation as well as physical scale model tests. Furthermore basic research in simulation of avalanches and artificial surf-waves is conducted. As a member of the research programs "Alpine Infrastructure Engineering" and "Computational Engineering" the Unit of Hydraulic Engineering can resort to synergies with other units and departments situated at the University of Innsbruck. Besides traditional contents topics of lecture cover current research developments. At the Unit`s laboratory hydraulic, ecological and economical functionality of hydraulic structures is analyzed and optimized by accomplishing scale model tests.