Professor Emeritus
Civil & Environmental Engineering
2001 Engineering III
(530) 752-0899
belarock@ucdavis.edu
Professor Larock majored in civil engineering
as an undergraduate and then specialized in hydraulics and fluid mechanics
at the graduate level, with a doctoral minor in mathematics. He joined
the UCD faculty in 1966.
Dr. Larock's interests
have long centered on the application of the principles of hydraulics
and fluid mechanics to fluid flows that play a role in hydraulics and
water resources in civil engineering. At various times he and his students
have studied elements of hydraulics, sediment transport, stratified
flow and several representations of turbulence. The use of the computer
to implement numerical representations and to seek solutions of the
often nonlinear partial differential equations in these models has become
increasingly important in recent years. The primary approach over the
past 25 years or so has been the development of finite element schemes
for these solutions, but recent work with Peter Smith on the development
of a three-dimensional numerical model of flow in the San Francisco
Bay-Delta region has been finite-difference based.
B.E. Larock, R.W. Jeppson and G.Z. Watters (1999). Hydraulics of Pipeline Systems, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 537pp. plus CD.
J. Hunt, G.W. Brunner, and B.E. Larock (1999) Flow Transitions in Bridge Backwater Analysis" Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 125, No. 9, pp. 981-983,
P.E. Smith and B.E. Larock (1997). "Semi-Implicit Numerical Schemes
for 3-D Flow Modeling." Proceedings IAHR-ASCE Conference, San Francisco,
August, pp. 6.
J.A. Ross and B.E. Larock (1997). "An Algebraic Stress Finite Element
Model of Turbulent Flow." International Journal for Numerical Methods
in Fluids, Vol. 24, pp. 693-714.
P.E. Smith and B.E. Larock (1993). "A Finite-Difference Model for
3-D Flow in Bays and Estuaries." Proceedings ASCE Conference on
Hydraulic Engineering, H.W. Shen et al., eds., Vol. 2, pp. 2116-2122.
H. Schulte, B.E. Larock, and G. Rouvé (1991). "Use of the q-f Model and Finite Elements in Studying Turbulent Separated Flows." Proceedings Second International Conference on Computer Methods in Water Resources Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology, Marrakesh, Morocco, C.A. Brebbia et al. eds., Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, U.K., Vol. 2, pp. 481-490.
K. Bedford, A. Findikakis, B.E. Larock, W. Rodi, and R.L. Street (1988). "Turbulence Modeling of Surface Water and Transport." Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Parts I-V, Vol. 114 No. 9, pp. 970-1073.