The Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research: Seventy-Plus and Still Going Strong

摘要

This paper presents a overview of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (IIHR). The overview outlines IIHR's beginning as a single-room hydraulics laboratory in 1920, charts its growth, and describes its current research and educational prospects. Periods of development are discussed briefly in terms of IIHR's sequence of directors. Over time, the range of IIHR's research and educational activities has widened. It is intriguing, though, to observe that many of the opportunities IIHR currently faces are intrinsically the same opportunities that led to IIHR's founding. In particular, IIHR's research and educational activities continue to be motivated by the overall need to understand and simulate water flow, as well as to design diverse structures that influence water flow. A recent book, Flowing Through Time, provides detailed coverage of IIHR's founding, its development, and its present prospects.