Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box Culverts

Foreword by Emeritus Professor Colin J. Apelt

1 Introduction
1.1 Presentation
1.2 Impact of road crossings
1.3 Culvert design, construction, and operation
1.4 Structure of the monograph

2 Hydraulic engineering design of standard box culverts – current practice
2.1 Presentation
2.2 Design method and procedure
2.3 Hands-on application
2.4 Practical considerations

3 Fish passage in standard box culverts
3.1 Presentation
3.2 Physical modeling of fish passage: basic dimensional considerations and similitude
3.3 Fish behavior and kinematics in a box culvert barrel
3.4 Discussion

4 Hydraulic engineering design for upstream fish passage in standard box culverts: general concepts and design guidelines
4.1 Presentation
4.2 Basic concepts
4.3 Implementation of basic concepts
4.4 Design methodology
4.5 Simplified design guidelines
4.6 Discussion

5 Design application
5.1 Presentation
5.2 Case study
5.3 Detailed application
5.4 Commentary and discussion

6 Discussion and practical considerations
6.1 General commentaries
6.2 Boundary treatments
6.3 Selection of the threshold discharge QT
6.4 Box versus pipe culverts

7 Conclusion

Appendices
Appendix A Glossary of technical terms
Appendix B Hydraulic calculations of natural flood plain and less-than-design flow in a box culvert
Appendix C On physical modeling of fish passage in standard box culverts
Appendix D Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of a fish-friendly standard box culvert barrel
Appendix E On alternatives to improve the upstream passage of small-body-mass fish, including retrofitting
Appendix F Digital appendix: video movies of culvert operation and small-bodied fish swimming in box culvert channels

Biography

Hubert Chanson is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland, where he has been since 1990, having previously enjoyed an industrial career for six years. His main field of expertise is environmental fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering, both in terms of theoretical fundamentals, physical and numerical modelling. He leads a group of 5-10 researchers, largely targeting flows around hydraulic structures, two-phase (gas-liquid and solid-liquid) free-surface flows, turbulence in steady and unsteady open channel flows, using computation, lab-scale experiments, field work and analysis. He has published over 1,100 peer reviewed publications including more than 20 books. He serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Flow Measurement and Instrumentation and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, the latter of which he is currently a senior Editor. http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans
Dr Xinqian (Sophia) Leng is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include experimental investigations of unsteady rapidly-varied open channel flows, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of bores and hydraulic structures, and field investigations of tidal bores. She authored 45 peer-reviewed papers, including 20 international scientific journal articles. Dr Leng is the recipient of the 2018 Baker Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK for the paper in the journal Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK. She was awarded a 2019-2021 Idex international research fellowship from the University of Bordeaux (France). Xinqian is actively involved in international collaborations with overseas research institutions such as the University of Bordeaux and Zhejiang Institution of Hydraulics and Estuary (China), as well as inter-disciplinary cooperation with industrial partners e.g. the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Fisheries (Australia) and Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (Australia).