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Robert Ettema is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and environmental science, with significant contributions to civil and structural engineering, ecology, water science and technology, atmospheric science, and computational mechanics.

Their work covers a range of topics including hydraulic flow and structures, hydrology and sediment transport processes, hydrology and watershed management studies, dam engineering and safety, arctic and antarctic ice dynamics, flood risk assessment and management, and climate change and permafrost.

Robert Ettema has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • Journal of Hydraulic Research
  • Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
  • Cold Regions Science and Technology
  • Water

Selected recent papers by Robert Ettema include:

  • "Large-Flume Tests on Flow Dislodgment of Rocks Forming Bendway Weirs," 2020, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • "River-ice effects on bank erosion along the middle segment of the Susitna river, Alaska," 2021, Cold Regions Science and Technology
  • "Effects of Streamwise Abutment Length on Scour at Riprap Apron-Protected Setback Abutments in Compound Channels," 2021, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • "Air Entrained in Flow along a Steep-Stepped Spillway: Data and Insights from a Hydraulic Model," 2021, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • "Optimal Configuration of Rock Vanes and Bendway Weirs for River Bends: Numerical-Model Insights," 2021, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Robert Ettema has coauthored multiple papers with frequent collaborators such as Christopher I. Thornton, Alireza Nowroozpour, Taylor Hogan, Nathan Holste, and Drew C. Baird.

Among their contributions is a book publication titled "Revised Clear-Water and Live-Bed Contraction Scour Analysis," released in 2021 by Transportation Research Board eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Clear‐Water Scour at Cylindrical Piers

    Arved J. Raudkivi;Robert Ettema

  • SCOUR AT BRIDGE PIERS

    Robert Ettema

  • Scale Effect in Pier-Scour Experiments

    Robert Ettema;Bruce W. Melville;Brian Barkdoll

  • Similitude of Large-Scale Turbulence in Experiments on Local Scour at Cylinders

    Robert Ettema;Gokhan Kirkil;Marian Muste

  • Coherent Structures in the Flow Field around a Circular Cylinder with Scour Hole

    Gokhan Kirkil;S G Constantinescu;Robert Ettema

  • Scale Effects in Flume Experiments on Flow around a Spur Dike in Flatbed Channel

    Robert Ettema;Marian Muste

  • Sediment Control at Lateral Diversions: Limits and Enhancements to Vane Use

    Brian D. Barkdoll;Robert Ettema;A. Jacob Odgaard

  • Two-phase versus mixed-flow perspective on suspended sediment transport in turbulent channel flows

    M. Muste;K. Yu;I. Fujita;R. Ettema

  • Detached Eddy Simulation Investigation of Turbulence at a Circular Pier with Scour Hole

    G. Kirkil;G. Constantinescu;R. Ettema

  • Review of Alluvial-Channel Responses to River Ice

    Robert Ettema

  • Hydraulic modeling: concepts and practice

    R. Ettema

  • Flow-Field Complexity and Design Estimation of Pier-Scour Depth: Sixty Years since Laursen and Toch

    Robert Ettema;George Constantinescu;Bruce W. Melville

  • Effect of Sediment Gradation on Clear Water Scour

    Arved J. Raudkivi;Robert Ettema

  • Estimation of Mean Flow Velocity in Ice‐Covered Channels

    Martin J. Teal;Robert Ettema;John F. Walker

  • Particle-image velocimetry for whole-field measurement of ice velocities

    Robert Ettema;Ichiro Fujita;Marian Muste;Anton Kruger

  • Scour at Cylindrical Bridge Piers in Armored Beds

    Arved J. Raudkivi;Robert Ettema

  • Local Scour at Skewed Piers

    R. Ettema;E. A. Mostafa;B. W. Melville;A. A. Yassin

  • Stability of Armour Layers in Rivers

    Arved J. Raudkivi;Robert Ettema

  • FLOW RESISTANCE IN ICE-COVERED ALLUVIAL CHANNELS

    Brennan T. Smith;Robert Ettema

  • Anchor ice rafting: Observations from the laramie river

    Edward W. Kempema;Robert Ettema

  • Two-phase flow insights into open-channel flows with suspended particles of different densities

    M. Muste;K. Yu;I. Fujita;R. Ettema

  • STATE-OF-THE-ART PAPERS 19 Eco-hydraulics and eco-sedimentation studies in China / ZHAOYIN WANG, JOSEPH H.W. LEE AND MENGZHEN XU 33 Flow resistance of emergent rigid and flexible floodplain vegetation /

    Spis Treci;Jochen Aberle;Juha Järvelä;Fabio Siniscalchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Marian Muste
Marian Muste University of Iowa
Bruce W. Melville
Bruce W. Melville University of Auckland
George Constantinescu
George Constantinescu University of Iowa
Vladimir Nikora
Vladimir Nikora University of Aberdeen
Frederick Stern
Frederick Stern University of Iowa
Marcelo H. Garcia
Marcelo H. Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pierre Y. Julien
Pierre Y. Julien Colorado State University
Maohong Fan
Maohong Fan University of Wyoming
Konstantine P. Georgakakos
Konstantine P. Georgakakos Hydrologic Research Center
Youqing Shen
Youqing Shen Zhejiang University

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