Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Scope
The mission of the Experimental Methods and Instrumentation Committee (EMI) is to promote new experimental methods, instruments, measurement techniques, and data analysis routines for both laboratory and field hydro-environment studies as well as to coordinate international activities in this dynamic area. Because of the diversity of measured hydraulic parameters and flow situations, a wide variety of methods and instruments have been developed. The advanced state-of-the-art instrumentation is followed by increasing expectations for data acquisition, which in turn results in the necessity of increased atomization of data collection and improvement of handling and processing of large data sets.
With respect to laboratory systems, special emphasis is given to the development of new capabilities for studying fundamental hydraulic phenomena and their interactions with other associated environmental processes such as aquatic ecosystem functioning. The central focus is on non-intrusive methods such as methods employing acoustic and optically-based instruments.
With respect to field systems, EMI activities emphasize design and implementation of multi-process and multi-scale observational and experimental studies, employing both remote and in-situ measurement techniques. Such studies incorporate the most advanced instruments connected in real-time data acquisition networks that can be linked to data models and numerical simulation tools, to underpin resource management policies.
To enhance implementation of new measurement technologies into research and practice, EMI continues its efforts in linking manufacturers, designers, and users (scientists and monitoring agencies).
Research Agenda
Laboratory systems: Despite the need for robust and inexpensive hydraulic laboratory equipment, development efforts currently focus on developing tools to analyse fundamental hydraulic behaviour and their interactions with other associated environmental processes such as aquatic ecosystem functioning. This leads to the development of more accurate methods and instruments to analyse new properties.
Systems for field measurements: Despite the fact that more accurate instruments and methods are also needed in the field to analyse new properties, the main goal is to develop systems that are economical and robust.
Installation of data-acquisition equipment in the field: For almost all major river systems in the world, only insufficient data on their water resource and flow-behaviour exists. The missing data may be quite basic in developing countries or very specific in high industrialised nations (pollution, flood insurance problems, etc.). The operation and maintenance of reliable measuring stations need improvement. The cost of continuous data-acquisition needed for this type of data can become prohibitive. Authorities undertake great efforts to automate the measurement, transmission and analysis of water resources data.
The IAHR-Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation provides an important link between manufacturer and users of these instruments. Particular action is needed in the testing of instruments, a field in which a new system of data-exchange should be set-up in the future. EMI offers a platform to distribute ideas for new solutions and knowledge about such instruments and methods. Efforts to establish the position of IAHR as a contributor to the efforts of international standardisation are being undertaken, based on the world-wide activities of the organisation.
Next Events
WEBINAR ON“EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND LABORATORY INSTRUMENTATION IN HYDRAULICS", 13-15 April, 2021, Online, Call for Abstracts
Publications
Meeting Minutes
Past events
HydroSenSoft
To download proceeding papers of HydroSenSoft, please go to eLibrary > Proceedings > Technical Division Congresses > Experimental Methods and Instrumentation > Hydrosensoft Conference
HydroSenSoft2017: 1st International Symposium and Exhibition on Hydro-Environment Sensors and Software, 28 Feb-3 Mar 2017, Madrid, Spain.
HydroSenSoft2019: 2nd International Symposium and Exhibition on Hydro-Environment Sensors and Software, 26 Feb-1 Mar 2019, Madrid, Spain.
W.A.T.E.R.
W.A.T.E.R. International Summer School on Hydraulics Measurement Techniques, 24-28 June 2019, Bologna, Italy.
W.A.T.E.R. Workshop on Advanced measurement Techniques and Experimental Research, 24-28 Sep 2018, Oostende, Belgium
W.A.T.E.R. Workshop on Advanced measurement Techniques and Experimental Research, 2-6 October 2017, Oostende, Belgium
W.A.T.E.R. 1st EMI Workshop on Advanced measurement Techniques and Experimental Research, 1-5 August 2016, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
HMEM
4th Hydraulic Measurements & Experimental Methods Conference (HMEM 2012), 12-15 August 2012, Snowbird, Utah
3rd Hydraulic Measurements & Experimental Methods Conference (HMEM 2007), 10-12 September 2007, Lake Placid, New York
2nd Hydraulic Measurements & Experimental Methods Conference (HMEM 2002), 28 July - 1 August 2002, Colorado, USA. Contact: cpugh@do.usbr.gov
Hydraulic Measurements & Experimental Methods Conference (HMEM 1994), Buffalo, New York.
International Conference on Vibration Measurements by laser Techniques & Short Course
5th International Conference on Vibration Measurements by laser Techniques & Short Course on "Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques", June 18-21, 2002. Ancona, Italy. Contact A.I.VE.LA. Secretariat: aivela@mm.univpm.it
4th International Conference on Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques & Short Course on Laser Vibrometry, June 20-23, 2000, Ancona, Italy. Contact: aivela@mehp1.unian.it
SENSOR '97, 13-15 May 1997, Nurnberg, Germany.
2nd International Conference on Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques, 23-25 September 1996, Ancona, Italy.
1st Hydraulic Measurements & Experimental Methods Conference (HMEM 1994), Buffalo, New York
Other Events
5th Workshop on River and Sedimentation Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics, 7-8 February 2019, Porto, Portugal, Contact: Elsa Carvalho (elsac@fe.up.pt)
2nd International Symposium on Hydraulic Modeling and Measuring Technology, Nanjing, China, May 30 - June 1, 2018, Contact: Ms. Feng Sun (fsun@nhri.cn)
International Conference on Physical Modelling of Transport and Dispersion, 7-10 August 1990.
International Symposium on Modelling Soil-Water-Structure Interactions, Delft, The Netherlands, August 29-September 2, 1988.
International Symposium on Scale Modelling, 18-22 July 1988, Tokyo, Japan.
Short course on discharge and velocity measurements, 26-27 August 1987, Zurich, Switzerland.
International Symposium on Scale Effects in Modelling Sediment Phenomena, Toronto, Canada, 25-28 August 1986.
IAHR Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Hydraulic Research, 22-24 April 1985, Delft, the Netherlands, .
Others
Aberle, J. (2010). "Book review: River training and sediment management with submerged vanes." J. Hydraul. Res. 48(4), 553-554.
Kashyap, S., Doutreleau, B., Bou-Botros, G. Rennie, C.D, and Townsend, R. (2010). "A semi-permanent method for fixing sand beds in laboratory flumes." J. Hydraul. Res., 48(3), 377-382.
Muste, M., Mervade, V., Kim., D., Maidment, D., and Whiteaker, D. (2010). "Data models for multi-dimensional representation of the river processes." Hydrolink 4(2010), 58-59.
Nezu, I., Di Cristo, C., and Rennie, C. (2010). "10 Questions to Prof. Iehisa Nezu." Hydrolink 4(2010), 60-61.
Rennie, C. (ed.) (2010). "A special 75th IAHR anniversary issue of Hydrolink." - Hydrolink 4(2010).
Rennie, C.D. and Church, M. (2010). "Mapping spatial distributions and uncertainty of water and sediment flux in a large gravel bed river reach using an acoustic Doppler current profiler." J. Geophys. Res., 115, F03035, doi:10.1029/2009JF001556, 2010.
Rennie, C.D. and Hay, A. "Reynolds stress estimates in a tidal channel from phase-wrapped ADV data." J. Coastal Res., 26(1), 157-166.
Nikora, V. Book Review: "Streamflow measurement" by Reginald W. Herschy, 3rd edition, 2009, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, ISBN 978-0-415-41342-8. 507 pp., J. Hydraul. Res. (in print).
Fujita, I., Muste, M. and Hauet, A. (2009). "LSPIV - a Powerful Tool for Measurements in Hydroscience." IAHR HYDROLINK 5/2009, 72-73.
Aberle, J. (2008). "Measurement techniques for the estimation of cohesive sediment erosion." Publs. Inst. Geophys. Pol. Acad. Sc., E-10 (406).
Rennie, C.D. and Rainville, F. (2008). "Improving precision in the reference velocity of ADCP measurements using a Kalman filter with GPS and bottom track."J. Hydraul. Eng. (ASCE), 134(9), 1257-1266.
Zhang, Z., Bao, X., Rennie, C.D., Nistor, I., and Cornett, A. (2008). "Water wave frequency detection by optical fiber sensor." Optics Communication, 281(24), 6011-6015.
Clunie, T.M., Nikora, V., Coleman, S.E., Friedrich, H., Melville, B.W. (2007). "Flow measurement using flying ADV probes." J. Hydr. Eng., 133(12), 1345-1355.
Cowen, E.A., Hill, D., George, C., Jirka, G., Muste, M., Admiraal, D.M., Blake, A., Frizell, W., Nakato, T., Oberg, K., Pugh, C., Rehmann, C., Rennie, C., Schmidt, A.R., Styles, S., Vermeyen, T., Wahl, T., Zhu, D. (eds.) (2007). Hydraulic Measurements & Experimental Methods Conference - 2007, Book of Extended Abstracts of the Specialty Conference. September 10-12, 2007, Lake Placid, NY, Environmental & Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the International Association of Hydraulic Engineers.
Muste, M., Vermeyen, T., Hotchkiss, R., and Oberg, K. (eds.) (2007). Special Issue of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE) 133(12) on Acoustic Velocimetry for Riverine Environments published in December 2007
Muste, M., Vermeyen, T., Hotchkiss, R., and Oberg, K. (2007). "Acoustic velocimetry for riverine environments." J. Hydr. Eng., 133(12), 1297-1298.
Rennie, C.D., Rainville, F., and Kashyap, S. (2007). "Improved Estimation of ADCP Apparent Bed-Load Velocity Using a Real-Time Kalman Filter." J. Hydr. Eng., 133(12), 1337-1344
6th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Singapore, June 21-25, 2004, World Scientific Publishinghttp://www.worldscibooks.com/books/engineering/5494.html
2000 Hydroinformatic Proceedings . The Conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference held from 23-27 July 2000 in Iowa, USA, contain a book (333 pages of abstracts) and full text of all papers on a CD-ROM
Recent Events with EMI-Involvement
2nd International Symposium on Hydraulic Modeling and Measuring Technology,Nanjing, China, May 30 - June 1, 2018, Contact: Ms. Feng Sun (fsun@nhri.cn)
CEDREN HydroPEAK Seminar on Experimental Methods in Hydraulics. Gaining Data for the Future. Norway, 11 June 2014
9th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering (ISUD-9), Strasbourg, France, 27-29 August 2014
2nd European IAHR Congress in Munich, Germany, June 27 - 29, 2012
34th IAHR World Congress in Brisbane, Australia, June 26 - July 1, 2011
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting , December 13-17, 2010
XXX International School of Hydraulics , Wiejce, Poland, September 14- 17, 2010
International Symposium on Hydraulic Physical Modelling and Field Investigation , Nanjing, China, September 13-15, 2010
River Flow 2010 , Braunschweig, Germany, September 8-10, 2010
Gravel-Bed Rivers VII Conference , Tadoussac, Canada, September 6- 10, 2010
1st European Congress of the IAHR , Edinburgh, Scotland, 4- 6 May 2010
7th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Fluids Engineering, Gothenburg, Sweden April 7-9 2010
National Telford Institute Workshop - Advances in Flow, Density and Sediment Measurement Techniques in the Laboratory and the Field, University of Dundee, UK, October 5-6, 2009
EOS Topical Meeting on "Blue" Photonics - Optics in the Sea , Aberdeen, Scotland, August 18-19, 2009
33rd IAHR World Congress , Vancouver, Canada, August 10 - 14, 2009
XXVIII International School of Hydraulics, Krag , Poland, September 23 - 26, 2008
6th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods in Fluid Engineering and Fluid Mechanics , Prague, Czech Republic, September 9 - 11, 2008
River Flow 2008 , Cesme-Izmir, Turkey, September 3 -5, 2008.
Workshop on erosion testing methods and techniques for cohesive sediments: University of Stuttgart, Germany, May 27 -28, 2008