River Flow 2020

Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (Delft, Netherlands, 7-10 July 2020)

Wim Uijttewaal, Mário J. Franca, Daniel Valero, Victor Chavarrias, Clàudia Ylla Arbós, Ralph Schielen, Alessandra Crosato, Wim Uijttewaal, Mário J. Franca, Daniel Valero, Victor Chavarrias, Clàudia Ylla Arbós, Ralph Schielen, Alessandra Crosato

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781000294361
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technologie et ingénierie
• Subtopic: Ingénierie civile

Rivers form one of the lifelines in our society by providing essential services such as availability of fresh water, navigation, energy, ecosystem services, and flood conveyance. Because of this essential role, mankind has interfered continuously in order to benefit most and at the same time avoid adverse consequences such as flood risk and droughts. This has resulted in often highly engineered rivers with a narrow set of functions. In the last decades rivers are increasingly considered in a more holistic manner as a system with a multitude of interdependent processes. River research and engineering has therefore added to the river fundamentals also themes like ecohydraulics, consequences of climate change, and urbanisation.

River Flow 2020 contains the contributions presented at the 10 th conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, River Flow 2020, organised under the auspices of the Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). What should have been a lively physical gathering of researchers, students and practitioners, was converted into an online event as the COVID-19 pandemic hindered international travelling and large gatherings of people. Nevertheless, the fluvial hydraulics community showed their interest and to be very much alive with a high number of participations for such event. Since its first edition in 2002, in Louvain-la-Neuve, this series of conferences has found a large and loyal audience in the river research and engineering community while being also attractive to the new researchers and young professionals. This is highlighted by the large number of contributions applying for the Coleman award for young researchers, and also by the number of applications and attendants to the Master Classes which are aimed at young researchers and students.

River Flow 2020 aims to provide an updated overview of the ongoing research in this wide range of topics, and contains five major themes which are focus of research in the fluvial environment: river fundamentals, the digital river, the healthy river, extreme events and rivers under pressure. Other highlights of River Flow 2020 include the substantial number of interdisciplinary subthemes and sessions of special interest. The contributions will therefore be of interest to academics in hydraulics, hydrology and environmental engineering as well as practitioners that would like to be updated about the newest findings and hot themes in river research and engineering.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Local Organising Committee
• International Scientific Committee
• IAHR Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
• Keynote lectures
• Theme: River fundamentals Sub-theme: Fluid mechanics
• Sub-theme: Sediment transport
• Sub-theme: Morphodynamics
• Special session: Scour at in-stream hydraulic structures, organized by Brian M. Crookston & Michele Palermo
• Sub-theme: Experimental techniques
• Special session: Instrumentation in river engineering and monitoring of geomorphic processes, organized by Rui Miguel Ferreira & Manousos Valyrakis
• Special session: Advances in large-scale hydraulic experiments organized by Hong-Koo Yeo & Ellis Penning
• Theme: The digital river Sub-theme: Monitoring
• Sub-theme: Numerical modelling
• Special session: Advanced methods in turbulence modelling of fluvial systems organized by Fabian Bombardelli, Carlo Gualtieri & Daniel Valero
• Special session: The future of river modellingorganized by Irina Overeem, Mohamed Yossef & Erik Mosselman
• Special session: Monitoring in ecohydraulic research: new developments in facing the challenges of scales organized by Markus Noack, Jeffrey Tuhtan, Shinji Fukuda & Margaret Chen
• Sub-theme: Vegetated flows
• Special session: Instream wood: restoration opportunities, flood-related hazards, and management practices organized by Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva, Ernest Bladé, Dieter Rickenmann, Volker Weitbrecht, Robert Boes & Isabella Schalko
• Special session: Basin-scale sediment fluxes observations organized by Carmelo Juez, Estela Nadal-Romero, Marwan Hassan & Damià Vericat
• Sub-theme: Solutions for impacted environments
• Theme: Extreme events Sub-theme: Flood hazard
• Sub-theme: Urban flooding
• Special session: Recent advances in characterization and modelling of floods from multiple sources, organized by Vasilis Bellos & María Bermúdez
• Sub-theme: Climate adaptation
• Theme: Rivers under pressure Sub-theme: Ecosystems and water quality
• Sub-theme: Engineered rivers
• Sub-theme: Navigation
• Sub-theme: Hydropower and dams
• Author index