Juha Järvelä

Staff Scientist
Staff Scientist
T213 Built Environment

Research activities at the Aalto Environmental Hydraulics Lab (EHL

- Hydraulics of environmental channels
- Environmentally sound hydraulic engineering
- Flow-vegetation interaction
- Physical sediment processes

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=AM1XpW0AAAAJ

Teaching

WAT-E2020 Environmental Hydraulics
YYT-C2005 Applied Hydrology

Old courses: Yhd-12.2010 Hydraulics; Yhd-12.3011 Hydraulic structures; Yhd-12.3130 Hydraulic structures II; Yhd-12.3135 Environmentally sound hydraulic engineering; Yhd-12.3136 Ecohydraulics; YYT-C2001 Introduction to hydrology and hydraulics

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...

Contact information

Postal address
Tietotie 1 E 02150 Espoo Finland
Phone number
+358505626727

Honors and awards

Outstanding Reviewer Award for refereeing for the Water Resources Research American Geophysical Union, USA

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Built Environment Jan 2014

Student prize: The Oskari Vilamo Foundation’s doctoral dissertation award The Oskari Vilamo Foundation, Finland

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Built Environment Jan 2005

Research groups

  • Water and Environmental Eng., Staff Scientist

Publications

Experimentation and Modeling of Reach-Scale Vegetative Flow Resistance due to Willow Patches

Un Ji, Juha Järvelä, Kaisa Västilä, Inhyeok Bae 2023 Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

New formulas addressing flow resistance of floodplain vegetation from emergent to submerged conditions

Walter Box, Juha Järvelä, Kaisa Västilä 2022 International Journal of River Basin Management

Flow and wake characteristics associated with riparian vegetation patches: Results from field-scale experiments

Gerardo Caroppi, Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä, Chanjoo Lee, Un Ji, Hyung Suk Kim, Sungjung Kim 2022 Hydrological Processes

Shear layer over floodplain vegetation with a view on bending and streamlining effects

Gerardo Caroppi, Juha Järvelä 2022 Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Longitudinal dispersion affected by willow patches of low areal coverage

Kaisa Västilä, Jungsun Oh, Fred Sonnenwald, Un Ji, Juha Järvelä, Inhyeok Bae, Ian Guymer 2022 Hydrological Processes

Flow resistance of floodplain vegetation mixtures for modelling river flows

Walter Box, Juha Järvelä, Kaisa Västilä 2021 Journal of Hydrology

Comparison of Flexible and Rigid Vegetation Induced Shear Layers in Partly Vegetated Channels

Gerardo Caroppi, Kaisa Västilä, Paola Gualtieri, Juha Järvelä, Maurizio Giugni, Paweł M. Rowiński 2021 Water Resources Research

Agricultural water management using two-stage channels : Performance and policy recommendations based on Northern European experiences

Kaisa Västilä, Sari Väisänen, Jari Koskiaho, Virpi Lehtoranta, Krister Karttunen, Mikko Kuussaari, Juha Järvelä, Kauko Koikkalainen 2021 Sustainability (Switzerland)

Floodplain flow resistance in case of a sparse mixture of plants at low relative submergences

Walter Box, Juha Järvelä, Kaisa Västilä 2020 River Flow 2020 : Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (Delft, Netherlands, 7-10 July 2020)

Acoustic Doppler velocimetry (ADV) data on flow-vegetation interaction with natural-like and rigid model plants in hydraulic flumes

Gerardo Caroppi, Kaisa Västilä, Paola Gualtieri, Juha Järvelä, Maurizio Giugni, Paweł M. Rowiński 2020 Data in Brief

Large-scale experiments for vegetated flows with different types of vegetation patch layouts

Un Ji, Inhyeok Bae, Juha Järvelä, Kaisa Västilä, Hyungsuk Kim, Chanjoo Lee 2020 River Flow 2020 : Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (Delft, Netherlands, 7-10 July 2020)

Exploring nature-based solutions to control stormwaters in urbanised Otaniemi

Chun Lin, Harri Koivusalo, Juha Järvelä, Mikko Jalas 2020

Flume investigations using natural-like vegetation with a view on fine sediment processes

Walter Box, Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2019 Proceedings of the 38th IAHR World Congress

Comparative analysis of lateral shear layers induced by flexible and rigid vegetation in a partly vegetated channel

Gerardo Caroppi, Kaisa Västilä, Paola Gualtieri, Juha Järvelä, Maurizio Giugni, Paweł Rowiński 2019 Proceedings of the 38th IAHR World Congress

Turbulence at water-vegetation interface in open channel flow: Experiments with natural-like plants

Gerardo Caroppi, Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä, Paweł Rowiński, Maurizio Giugni 2019 Advances in Water Resources

Physical modelling of shrub-willow patches in prototype scale

Un Ji, Myeonghui Ahn, Juha Järvelä, Hyungsuk Kim, Eunkyung Jang, Jungeun Gu, Kaisa Västilä 2019 Proceedings of the 38th IAHR World Congress

Measurement of lateral and wake flows associated with stream-scale willow patches

Kaisa Västilä, Chanjoo Lee, Donggu Kim, Sungjung Kim, Jongmin Kim, Juha Järvelä 2019 Proceedings of the 38th IAHR World Congress

Transport and deposition of fine sediment in a channel partly covered by flexible vegetation

Walter Box, Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2018 E3S Web of Conferences

Flume measurement of suspended sediment concentrations using high-accuracy turbidity sensors in vegetated flows

Juha Järvelä, Walter Box, Kaisa Västilä 2018 Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics

How vegetation can aid in coping with river management challenges : A brief review

Paweł M. Rowiński, Kaisa Västilä, Jochen Aberle, Juha Järvelä, Monika B. Kalinowska 2018 Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology

Characterizing natural riparian vegetation for modeling of flow and suspended sediment transport

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2018 JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Correction to

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2018

Flume measurements on the lateral diffusion of suspended sediment between flexible vegetation and open water

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä, Paweł Rowiński 2017 Proc. Hydraulic Measurements and Experimental Methods Conference, 9-13 July 2017, Durham, NH, US

Laserkeilaus vesiteknisissä seuranta- ja mallinnussovelluksissa

Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Matti Vaaja, Hannu Hyyppä 2016 VESITALOUS

Dynamic reconfiguration of riparian trees in towing tank experiments

Juha Järvelä, Jochen Aberle, Johanna Jalonen 2016 Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (River flow 2016)

Luonnonmukainen vesirakentaminen peruskuivatuksessa

Juha Järvelä, Kaisa Västilä 2016 Sven Hallinin tutkimussäätiö 70 vuotta

Luonnonmukaisen vesirakentamisen periaatteet

Juha Järvelä 2016 Maan vesi- ja ravinnetalous

Feasibility of laser scanning and photogrammetric 3D approaches for mapping and monitoring a riverine environment

Matti Vaaja, Matti Kurkela, Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Hannu Hyyppä, Marika Ahlavuo, Antero Kukko, Harri Kaartinen, Anttoni Jaakkola, Juha Hyyppä, Elina Kasvi, Eliisa Lotsari, Claude Flener, Ninni Saarinen, Mikko Vastaranta, Markus Holopainen, Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Petteri Alho 2016

Laserkeilausmenetelmien soveltuvuus jokiympäristöjen mallinnukseen

Matti Vaaja, Matti Kurkela, Hannu Hyyppä, Antero Kukko, Harri Kaartinen, Anttoni Jaakkola, Elina Kasvi, Eliisa Lotsari, Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Ninni Saarinen, Marika Ahlavuo, Mikko Vastaranta, Markus Holopainen, Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Petteri Alho, Juha Hyyppä 2016 Digitaalista tulevaisuutta – Huippuosaamisella vaikuttavuutta ja vuorovaikutusta

Flow-Vegetation-Sediment Interaction in a Cohesive Compound Channel

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä, Harri Koivusalo 2016 JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING: ASCE

Hydrodynamics of Vegetated Channels

Jochen Aberle, Juha Järvelä 2015 Rivers Physical, Fluvial and Environmental processes

Determining characteristic vegetation areas by terrestrial laser scanning for modeling floodplain flows

Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Matti Vaaja, Matti Kurkela, Hannu Hyyppä 2015 WATER

Vegetation characteristics and floodplain topography from terrestrial laser scanning for hydraulic analyses

Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Kaisa Västilä 2015 36th IAHR World Congress, 28 June 3 July, 2015, The Hague, the Netherlands

Effect of floodplain vegetation on flow and transport of cohesive particles in an environmental two-stage channel

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä, Johanna Jalonen 2015 36th IAHR World Congress, 28 June 3 July, 2015, The Hague, the Netherlands

Spatial-structural properties of woody riparian vegetation with a view to reconfiguration under hydrodynamic loading

Clemens Weissteiner, Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Hans Peter Rauch 2015 Ecological Engineering

Deriving Floodplain Topography and Vegetation Characteristics for Hydraulic Engineering Applications by Means of Terrestrial Laser Scanning

Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Harri Koivusalo, Hannu Hyyppä 2014 JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING: ASCE

Drag and reconfiguration of trees: towing tank experiments with TLS based plant characterization

Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Matti Vaaja, Hannu Hyyppä 2014 3rd IAHR Europe Congress,14-16 April, Porto, Portugal

Estimation of drag forces caused by natural woody vegetation of different scales

Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä 2014 JOURNAL OF HYDRODYNAMICS

Luonnonmukainen vesirakentaminen kuivatushankkeiden ympäristönsuojelussa = Looduslähedane vesiehitus ja keskkonnakaitse kuivendustöödel

Juha Järvelä 2014 Maaparandus molemal pool Soome lahte = Maanparannus ja maatalouden vesirakennus molemmin puolin Suomen lahtea

Flow resistance of emergent rigid and flexible floodplain vegetation

Jochen Aberle, Juha Järvelä 2013 JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH

Flow resistance of emergent rigid and flexible vegetation.

Jochen Aberle, Juha Järvelä 2013 JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH

Impact of tree scale on drag: experiments in a towing tank

Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä 2013 35th IAHR World Congress, Chengdu, 8-13 September 2013

Leaf Area Index as Vegetation Density Measure for Hydraulic Analyses

Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä, Jochen Aberle 2013 JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING: ASCE

Hienojakoisen sedimentin kulkeutuminen ja kasautuminen maatalousuomissa

Niina Siitonen, Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2013 VESITALOUS

Data Processing and Quality Evaluation of a Boat-Based Mobile Laser Scanning System

Matti Vaaja, Antero Kukko, Harri Kaartinen, Matti Kurkela, Elina Kasvi, Claude Flener, Hannu Hyyppä, Juha Hyyppä, Juha Järvelä, Petteri Alho 2013 Sensors

Characteristic reference areas for estimating flow resistance of natural foliated vegetation

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä, Jochen Aberle 2013 Journal of Hydrology

Spatial-structural analysis of woody riparian vegetation for hydraulic considerations

Clemens Weissteiner, Johann Peter Rauch, Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä 2013 35th IAHR World Congress, Chengdu, 8-13 September 2013

Phosphorus release and sediment geochemistry in a low-salinity water bay of the Gulf of Finland

Marie Thouvenot-Korppoo, Kaarina Lukkari, Juha Järvelä, Mirja Leivuori, Tuomo Karvonen, Tapani Stipa 2012 Boreal Environment Research

Foliage and stem drag: comparison between four riparian species

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2012 2nd IAHR Europe Congress, Munich, 27.-29. June 2012

Determination of discharge coefficients for a cross-flooding duct

Mikael Stening, Juha Järvelä, Pekka Ruponen, Risto Jalonen 2011 Ocean Engineering

Cohesive sediment dynamics in a vegetated two-stage drainage channel: the first year after floodplain excavation

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2011 7th International Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, RCEM 2011, 6.9.-8.9.2011, Beijing, China

Environmentally preferable two-stage drainage channels: considerations for cohesive sediments and conveyance

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2011 International Journal of River Basin Management

Sedimenttiprosessien vaikutukset luonnonmukaisten uomien suunnitteluun

Kaisa Västilä, Johanna Jalonen, Juha Järvelä 2011 VESITALOUS

Vegetative drag in natural, foliated plant stands

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä, Jochen Aberle, Thomas Schoneboom 2011 34th IAHR World Congress, 26.6.-1.7.2011, Brisbane, Australia

Widerstandsverhalten von Vegetation in Fließgewässern

J. Aberle, Juha Järvelä, T. Schoneboom, A. Dittrich 2010 Auswirkungen von Eingriffen in Fließgewässern,Magdeburg, Germany, 18 November 2010

MODELLING PHOSPHORUS EXCHANGE AT THE SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE OF A BRACKISH WATER BAY

Marie Thouvenot-Korppoo, Tuomo Karvonen, Juha Järvelä 2010 PROCEEDINGS OF THE XVIII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN WATER RESOURCES (CMWR 2010)

Modelling phosphorus exchange at the sediment water interface of coastal water systems.

Marie Thouvenot-Korppoo, Tuomo Karvonen, Juha Järvelä 2010 XVIII Conference on Computational Methods in WaterResources (CMWR 2010), 21-24 June 2010, Barcelona, Spain.

Hydraulic and sediment considerations in designing environmentally preferable drainage channels: experiences from a field demonstration site

Kaisa Västilä, Juha Järvelä 2010 International Symposium on Ecohydraulics 2010, 1216 September 2010, Seoul, Korea

Hydraulic considerations in designing environmentally preferable channels.

Juha Järvelä 2008 10th International Drainage Workshop of ICID Working Group on Drainage, 6-11 July 2008, Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia.

Comment on "Analysis of Manning coefficient for small-depth flows on vegetated beds"

Juha Järvelä, J. Averle 2007 Hydrological Prosesses

Helsingin pienvesiohjelma

Juha Järvelä, Otso Lintinen, Marika Orava, Ulla Loukkaanhuhta 2007 VESITALOUS

Flow-vegetation-sediment interaction: research challenges

Juha Järvelä 2006 River flow 2006, Third International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, September 6-8, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal

Vegetative flow resistance: characterization of woody plants for modeling applications

Juha Järvelä 2006 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2006, 21-25 May 2006, Omaha, USA

Flow-vegetation-sediment interaction

A. Dittrich, J. Järvelä 2005 Water Engineering Research

Characterization of branched woody vegetation for estimating flow resistance

Juha Järvelä 2005 XXXI IAHR Congress, 11-16 September 2005, Seoul, Korea

Flow resistance in vegetated channels: characteristics of natural woody vegetation

Juha Järvelä 2005 4th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, 15-18 December 2004, Hong Kong, China

Hydraulic aspects of environmental flood management in boreal conditions

Terhi Helmiö, Juha Järvelä 2004 Boreal Environment Research

Determination of flow resistance caused by non-submerged woody vegetation

Juha Järvelä 2004 International Journal of River Basin Management

Hydraulic considerations in restoring boreal streams

Juha Järvelä, Terhi Helmiö 2004 Nordic Hydrology

Setting objectives for restoring channelized low-gradient streams

L. Järvepää, J. Jormola, J. Järvelä 2004 Fifth International Symposium on Ecohydraulics, Madrid, Spain, 12-17 september 2004

Ekohydrauliikka

Juha Järvelä, Terhi Helmiö 2003 Luonnonmukainen vesirakentaminen.Uusia näkökulmia vesistösuunnitteluun

Influence on vegetation on flow structure in floodplains and wetlands

Juha Järvelä 2003 3rd IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, Barcelona, 1-5 September 2003

Hydraulic aspects of environmental flood management

Terhi Helmiö, Juha Järvelä 2002 Environmental Flows for River Systems 2002, Cape Town, 3.-8.3.2002

Hydraulic considerations in restoring small rivers and brooks

Juha Järvelä, Terhi Helmiö 2002 Environmental Flows for River Systems 2002, Cape Town, 3.-8.3.2002

Flow resistance of flexible and stiff vegetation: a flume study

Juha Järvelä 2001 European Geophysical Society XXVI General Assembly, Nice, France, 25-30.3.2001

Flow resistance of natural floodplain vegetation: a preliminary analysis of a flume study

Juha Järvelä 2001 2nd IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics. Obihiro, Japan, 10-14 September 2001

Luonnonmukainen vesirakennus virtaa vahvana

Juha Järvelä 2001 Rakennustekniikka

Hydraulic Features of Boreal River Rehabilitation - Finnish experience

J. Järvelä, T. Helmiö 1999 3rd International Symposium on Ecohydraulics, Salt Lake City, 12-16 July 1999

Assessing the hydraulic performance in river rehabilitation projects - Myllypuro Brook case study

T. Helmiö, J. Järvelä 1998 XX Nordic Hyrological Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 10-13 August 1998

Luonnomukainen vesirakentaminen: mahdollisuudet ja erityispiirteet Suomessa

J. Jormola, J. Järvelä, A. Lehtinen, H. Pajula 1998

Restoration of boreal lowland rivers in Finland: problems and approaches with respect to conservation and flood protection

J. Järvelä, J. Jormola 1998 1998 International Water Resources Engineering Conference, Memphis, USA, 3-7.8.1998

Uomien kunnostuksesta tulvatasanteiden ennallistamiseen

J. Järvelä, J. Jormola 1997 VESITALOUS

Kaatopaikka-alueiden eristäminen ajankohtaista - tiivisterakenteita tutkitaan

Juha Järvelä, A. Hepojoki 1996 Ympäristö ja terveys

Luonnonmukaisuus keskieurooppalaisessa vesirakentamisessa

Juha Järvelä, P. Vakkilainen 1996 VESITALOUS

Suopohjalle järvi

Juha Järvelä 1996 Suopohjasta uutta voimaa

Kaatopaikoilla mittavia pintarakennetöitä lähivuosina

Juha Järvelä, A. Hepojoki 1995 Maansiirto