CENTRAL THEME:

21st Century: The New Era for Hydraulic Research and Its Applications

THEMES OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

The technical sessions will cover the methods, tools, experience and results of hydraulic research and engineering, focusing on the following five themes:

A. Development, Planning and Management of Surface- and Ground-water Resources
Editors/Convenors: YANG Xiaoliu (China)
                             H. P. Nachtnebel (Austria)
A-1 Decision support and GIS systems for planning and management of water resources
A-2 Aquifer hydrodynamics, contaminant transport, and protection
A-3 Watershed management
A-4 Probabilistic methods and risk analysis
A-5 Shortage of water resources and its countermeasures

B. Environmental Hydraulics and Eco-Hydraulics
Editors/Convenors: ZHAO Wenqian (China)
                              M. Leclerc (Canada)
B-1 Diffusion, transportation and transformation of harmful substances in water bodies
B-2 Control of pollution in inland waters and oceans
B-3 Habitat conservation, restoration and improvement
B-4 Hydroinformatics in environmental hydraulics
B-5 Reservoir and estuarine ecology.

C.Forecasting and Mitigation of Water-related Disasters
Editors/Convenors: LI Wenxue (China)
                              K. Inoue (Japan)
C-1 Flood forecasting and disaster mitigation in river basins and urban areas
C-2 Dam break and emergency handling in failure of hydraulic structures
C-3 Hyper-concentrated flow and debris flow
C-4 Storm water management in urban areas
C-5 Hydroinformatics for disaster mitigation

D.Hydraulics of Rivers, Water Works and Machinery
Editors/Convenors: WANG Zhaoyin (China)
                              A.Petitjean (France)
                              R. K. Fisher (USA)
D-1 Flow in rivers and open channels
D-2 Flow condition at hydraulic structures
D-3 Sediment management in rivers and reservoirs
D-4 Ice engineering
D-5 Pipe flow, two phase flow and Hydraulic machinery
D-6 Hydroinformatics for design and operation of hydraulic structures

E.Hydraulics for Maritime Engineering
Editors/Convenors: XIE Shileng (China)
                             J. M. Grassa Garrido (Spain)
E-1 Measurement and modeling of multi-directional waves
E-2 Hydrodynamic performance and design of maritime structures
E-3 Sediment transport and morphological process in coastal zones
E-4 Hydroinformatics in coastal and harbour engineering

JOHN F. KENNEDY STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION

The John F. Kennedy Student Paper Competition is a unique opportunity for students to present their research results before the international scientific community at a congress attended by leading experts in the field. Students are invited to submit papers which respond to the general theme and sub-themes of the Congress. Submission should be of original work, not previously published, and sole-authored by students with a University (or equivalent) registration at any time during the period of 1999-2001. Please note that the written submission is to be accompanied by an official statement from his/her research advisor affirming the status of the student. There is no strict age limit, papers authored by students below 32 years of age will, however, be given preference.

Papers are limited to 6 pages in length and should be prepared according to the specifications shown in Form D. Papers must be sent together with Form C (Bulletin 1) to Prof. Lisheng SUO by 30 November, 2000. Authors will be notified by the end of April, 2001 regarding the acceptance for presentation. Approximately 14 papers will be selected for 15-minute presentations. During two consecutive sessions on Tue. 18, Sept. 2000. The students, who only attend the Tuesday’s session, are required to pay USD 50.

Both the quality of presentation at the Congress, as well as the technical merit of the paper itself, will be taken into consideration for the awards by an international panel of experts. The winners will be announced and receive their awards at the Congress banquet. Awards are offered for the first (USD1250), second and third places.

Note: University professors and researchers are strongly encouraged to promote the John F. Kennedy Student Paper Competition so that upcoming researchers in hydraulics can taste the real-world flavor of this international event, become contributors to IAHR activities, and eventually be active members of the IAHR.

ACCEPTANCE OF PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS

Papers in accordance with the above-mentioned should be submitted by 30 November 2000, and prepared according to the Instructions for Text Preparation (Form D). After review by special expert groups chaired by the relevant editors/convenors of each sub-themes, authors of the accepted contributions will be notified by the end of February 2001. The authors will also be informed about the presentation form, either orally or by poster.

The proceedings will consist of papers that have been accepted and the student competition. Regular participants will receive a set of the proceedings (both CD-ROM and printed volumes). Additional CD-ROMs will be available for purchase. Please mark the appropriate part of the registration form or directly apply to LOC of the Congress. A limited number of proceedings will be available at the on-site registration desk.

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS

All the accepted papers should be presented in the Congress, either orally or by poster. In the first case, several technical sessions will be conducted in parallel. In the second case, appropriate boards for posters will be provided and a special poster session will be held on Monday afternoon. Posters shall be placed at the start and remain fixed during the Congress.

All the accepted technical theme papers will be published in the proceedings.

INVITED LECTURES

After the official opening of the Congress, the welcome address will be delivered by the Minister, the Ministry of Water Resources of China. The President of IAHR will invite two leading water experts to deliver general reports. A lecture by the recipient of the Arthur Thomas Ippen Award will be delivered before the Closing Ceremony. There will also be four key-note speeches related to the main Congress themes.

SPECIAL SEMINARS

Coordinator: HU Heping
The sub-themes will be complemented by the following special seminars, of which each topic is to be convened by two experts, whom interested persons can directly contact.

SS-1 Hydraulics and Society      Convenors: M. B. ABBOTT and TAO Jianhua
SS-2 Key Hydraulic Issues of Huge-Water Projects    Convenors: P. H. BURGI and GAO Jizhang
SS-3 Instrumentation for Hydraulic Measurements    Convenors: A. MULLER and CHEN Bingxin
SS-4 Education and Professional Development for Hydraulic Engineers     Convenors: R. M. Damian and LI Wei
SS-5 Developments in Industrial Fluid Mechanics and Applications in Energy Production   Convevers: H. NINOKATA and CAO Shuliang
SS-6 Symposium on managing change in Technology Research Institutes.      Convevers: Dr. Ir. G. S. Rodenhuis

The seminar papers should be submitted by 28 February 2001 to the coordinator or to the relevant convenors. Copies of the seminar papers will be contributed to the attendants of the seminars.

MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

In the Congress there will be a special memorial symposium “Pioneers of Modern Hydraulic Engineering in Asia – Technology Transfer and Inventive Development”. The pioneers to be commemorated are:
LI Yizhi,( China)    QIAN Ning, (China)    Magaho Mononobe, (Japan )    Tae Sang WON, (Korea)   
A. N. Khosla, (India )
Convenors: CHEN Jiaqi (China)    Fax: 86-10-68412316, Email: 2001iahr@iwhr.com
                   N. Tamai (Japan)    Fax: 81-3-58416130, Email: tamai@hydra.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
                   C. V. J. Varma (India)    Fax: +91-116116347, Email: varma@nda.vsnl.net.in

Potential speakers will be chosen from all countries of Asia and other related countries in the world. List (preliminary) of contributors:
ZHANG Zezhen (China), ZHANG Ren (China), TAN Ying (China), N. TAMAI (Japan), Tae Hoon Yoon (Korea), C. V. J. VARMA (India),E. Plate (Germany), B. C. YEN (U. S. A.).

TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS

Three following workshops are going to be organized:
TW-1 Introduction of China Water Transfer from South To North Project
         Convenor: GUO Jun (China) Email: guojun@iwhr.com
TW-2 Hydroenvironmental Modelling
         Convenor: R. A. Falconer (UK) Email: falconerRA@cardif.ac.uk
                          Jianhua TAO (China) Email: jhtao@tju.edu.cn
TW-3 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for Water Systems.
         Convenor: WU Zhengyi (U. S. A.) Email: zheng.wu@mw.com
TW-4 Application and Validation of 3-D Models
         Convenor: E. Mansard (Canada) Email: etienne.mansard@nrc.ca
TW-5 Water service in Rural Area
         Convenor: D. Stephenson (South Africa) Email: steph@civen.civil.wits.ac.za

STUDENT FORUM

Participants who registered as student are welcome to attend the student Forum on Tuesday evening. They are encouraged to exchange ideas and thinking towards the near future work in water engineering. Before the forum, they will have a dinner party together with local students.