Turbulence and Flow-Sediment Interactions in Open-Channel Flows

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; ADCP; Amazon River; anisotropy; bedforms morphology; bottom turbulence; bridge pier; deposition; disentrainment; dunal bedform; ejections; entrainment; equilibrium scour depth; erosion; freshwater discharge; gravel beds; hairpin vortex packet; horizontal cylinder; horseshoe vortex; hydraulics; laboratory experiments; local scouring; new scaling of scour depth; open channel flow; open-channel flows; Physical hydraulic modeling; quadrant analysis; Reynolds stress; rigid vegetation; river confluence; river hydrodynamics; scale; scour; Scour and Velocity field; sediment kinematics; sediment transport; sediments; surface and subsurface flows; suspended sediment concentration; Taylor's frozen turbulence hypothesis; transport; turbulence; turbulence interactions; turbulence structures; turbulent flow; two-layer circulation; velocity field; wall-wake flow; wavelet coherency; Yeongsan estuary
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• ISBN: 9783039438990; 9783039439003; books978-3-03943-900-3
• Access: Open Access

The main focus of this Special Issue of Water is the state-of-the-art and recent research on turbulence and flow-sediment interactions in open-channel flows. Our knowledge of river hydraulics is deepening, thanks to both laboratory/field experiments related to the characteristics of turbulence and their link to erosion, transport, deposition, and local scouring phenomena. Collaboration among engineers, physicists, and other experts is increasing and furnishing new inter-/multidisciplinary perspectives to the research of river hydraulics and fluid mechanics. At the same time, the development of both sophisticated laboratory instrumentation and computing skills is giving rise to excellent experimental-numerical comparative studies. Thus, this Special Issue, with ten papers by researchers from many institutions around the world, aims at offering a modern panoramic view on all the above aspects to the vast audience of river researchers.