Abstract

This paper is to briefly present the most recent development of the research and design tools (or methodologies) for conducting river engineering projects. Due to the fact that the river engineering solutions of today’s problems have become more and more complex, sound solutions of these problems demand thorough consideration of multiple objectives under multiple constraints as well as their effects to a large interconnected region of the entire watershed or river basin and their short- and long-term impacts to human society. To achieve the best possible solutions costeffectively, the best tools have to be integrated for today’s applications to river engineering.

Keywords: river sedimentation, river engineering methodology, computational modeling and simulation, optimization of engineering design.