New Master's theses
for Spring Semester 2025
Students who are interested in writing their Master's thesis at the Chair for Hydraulic Engineering at VAW are asked to fill external page this form by 01.12.2024.
We keep a list of interested students and will communicate the acceptances by Wednesday, 04.12.2024 the latest. Later applications are also possible, though the range of available topics may be limited.
Topics marked with ** are conducted under external supervision. For topics marked with * or ** is it required to get in touch with the responsible contact person given in the topic description (to get to know each other and to clarify questions) by 25.11.2024.
Additional information for Civil Engineering: If you are planning to continue your project work as a Master's thesis in the following semester, please ask the contact persons for the respective topics directly. For some suitable topics, you will find further information at the end of the topic description. In general, only research-oriented topics can be continued as a Master's thesis.
Master's theses in cooperation with the institute of snow and avalanche research SLF, Davos on request, directly at external page SLF.
Student theses related to glaciology are listed seperately.
- Download vertical_align_bottom Dam breach outflows at strongly silted reservoirs* (PDF, 349 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom How to Build Digital Rivers to Benefit Real Ecosystems* (PDF, 185 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Response of River Morphology and Aquatic Habitat to Debris-Flow Event* (PDF, 349 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Last stop powerhouse? Using CFD and ML in the headwaters of KW Wildegg-Brugg to quantify fish movement pathways* (PDF, 381 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom From bare ground to forests: Effect of floodplain forest traits on flood attenuation* (PDF, 290 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Effect of initial measures on dynamic river widening* (PDF, 360 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Initiating and maintaining morphodynamic processes in river widenings* (PDF, 343 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry: study case at the Töss River* (PDF, 256 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Riverbed morphologies around engineered logjams: physical modelling* (PDF, 478 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Bank erosion processes within check-dam sequences* (PDF, 247 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Experimental investigation of floating debris at behavioral fish guidance system* (PDF, 251 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Flexibilization potential of the Limmat hydropower cascade through an optimized water level regulation of Lake Zurich* (PDF, 197 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Erhöhung des Erdschüttdamms Marmorera zur Vergrösserung der Speicherkapazität (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Variantenstudie Ausbaupotential Pumpspeicherkraftwerk Wägital (PDF, 5 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Eulach River: Flood protection and river restoration (PDF, 423 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Ice Control Weir on the Sihl River: Study of the effect of gate position and of predictive factors for ice jam (PDF, 335 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Erhöhung der Seeufereggsperre (i): Optimierung durch Drainagestollen am aktuellen Mauerfuss (in Kombination mit Thema ii) (PDF, 459 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Erhöhung der Seeufereggsperre (ii): Ersatz der Hochwasserentlastung (in Kombination mit Thema i) (PDF, 297 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Hochwasserschutz Pinzgau: Machbarkeitsstudie zu einer «Dükerlösung» für den Überlastfall (PDF, 198 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Hochwasserschutz Pinzgau: Machbarkeitsstudie zur Überleitung der Krimmler Ache in den Speicher Durlassboden (PDF, 554 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Basel, St. Albanteich: Potential Wasserkraftnutzung (PDF, 379 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Basel, Wiese: Prüfung und Optimierung Pendelrampe* (PDF, 272 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Effect of discharge on sediment and wood transport processes in torrents** (PDF, 164 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Field experiments on bedload transport using distributed acoustic sensing** (PDF, 367 KB)