Fluvial Hydraulics in Vegetated Channels
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 1262
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluvial hydraulics; local scour; river ice hydraulics; sediment transport; eco-hydraulics; snow hydrology; numerical simulation
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Interests: hydraulic; hydrodynamics; sediment transport
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vegetation patches and strips in riverbeds and riverbanks have a crucial effect in aquatic ecosystems. Vegetation patches and strips play an important role in transporting contaminants through changes in flow hydrodynamics. The interaction between flow and vegetation in a channel should be considered in urban hydrology, stream restoration, and flood management projects. The enrichment and development of vegetation patches have numerous benefits for the environment, indicating that plants have a remarkable role in erosion control in addition to their ecological effects compared to structural methods.
To date, scientists have conducted a large amount of cutting-edge research on all aspects of sediment transport and fluvial hydraulics in the presence of vegetation patches/strips in channels. Many research papers have been published to help researchers continue to explore this subject in the right direction. The aim of this Special Issue is to publish research works that improve knowledge of sediment transport and fluvial processes with the presence of vegetation/plants in channels. It will include not only the impacts of vegetation on sediment transport in natural rivers and laboratory flumes, but also topics related to role of vegetation on flow hydrodynamics. We will also include research works regarding sediment retention/deposition occurring in vegetation patches, as well as those on different aspects of vegetation, such as foliage impacts, effects of stem flexibility on turbulence, the mechanical behavior of vegetation, and hydrodynamic models considering the effect of vegetation.
Dr. Jueyi Sui
Prof. Dr. Hossein Afzalimehr
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eco-hydrology
- fluvial hydraulics
- local scour
- sediment transport
- turbulence
- vegetated channel
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