Dipl.-Ing. José Aliaga

Aliaga

Research Associate

Technische Universität Braunschweig
Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources
Division of Hydraulic Engineering and River Morphology

Beethovenstraße 51a
38106 Braunschweig
Room 610 A

j.aliaga-villagran(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Activities and Research interests

  • Fluvial morphodynamics
  • Ecohydraulics
  • Hydrodynamics of vegetated flows
  • Experimental Hydraulics

Projects

Doctoral Thesis: "Near-bed hydrodynamics in vegetated flows"

Publications

Journals

  • Aliaga, J., & Aberle, J. (2024). Bed shear stress and near‐bed flow through sparse arrays of rigid emergent vegetation. Water Resources Research, 60(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035879

Conferences

  • Aliaga, J., & Aberle, J. (2023). Impact of rigid emergent vegetation array density on near-bed flow structure. 40th IAHR World Congress.

  • Aliaga, J., & Aberle, J. (2022). Direct bed shear stress measurements in flows through rigid emergent vegetation. In River Flow 2022.

  • Aliaga, J., Laborde, A., Flores, E., Link, O., Hellwig, F., & Jeldres, F. (2020). The impact of vegetation on sedimentation on alluvial bars along the Carampangue River, Chile. In W. Uijttewaal, M. Franca, D. Valero, V. Chavarrias, C. Ylla, R. Schielen, & A. Crosato (Eds.), River Flow 2020 (Uijttewaal et al., pp. 1589–1594). Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.1201/b22619-221

Diploma's Thesis

  • Aliaga, J. (2018). Effect of temperature over the bed-load transport capacity [Diploma's thesis, Universidad de Concepción]

Supervised Master Theses

  • Kind, F. (2023). Bed shear stress measurements in gravel bed flows covered with rigid emergent vegetation
  • Saelzer, M. (2022). Experimentelle Quantifizierung der Sohlenschubspannung in Bewuchsfeldern mit starrer durchströmter Vegetation 

Biography

2020 - ongoing PhD Student; LWI, Division of Hydraulic Engineering and River Morphology
2018 - 2020 Research Assistant; Universidad de Concepción, Laboratory of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering
2012 - 2018 Dipl.-Ing. Civil Engineering; Universidad de Concepción