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Prediction of interaction between a side overflow and bed-load transport in a channel with semi-empirical approaches

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The cumulative effects of periodic redox cycling on the mobility of As, Fe, and S from alluvial sediment to groundwater were investigated in bioreactor experiments. Two particular sediments from the alluvial floodplain of the Mekong Delta River were invest ...

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Potential erosion capacity of gravity currents created by changing initial conditions

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We investigate to what extent the initial conditions (in terms of buoyancy and geometry) of saline gravity currents flowing over a horizontal bottom influence their runout and entrainment capacity. In particular, to what extent the effect of the introducti ...

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Geomorphic work by gravity currents with varying initial conditions

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Design optimization of permeable sediment traps for fluvial bed load transport

Anton Schleiss, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi, Sebastian Schwindt, Anita Hélène Roth

Sediment traps are crucial elements for flood protection in mountain rivers with high sediment transport capacity. Existing structures often interrupt the channel connectivity. Ideally, a sediment trap should be permeable for bed load during non-hazardous ...

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Probabilistic Prediction and Forecast of Daily Suspended Sediment Concentration on the Upper Yangtze River

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AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2018

Entrainment, transport and deposition of sediment by saline gravity currents

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Few studies have addressed simultaneously the feedback between the hydrodynamics of a gravity cur- rent and the geomorphological changes of a mobile bed. Hydrodynamic quantities such as turbulent and mean velocities, bed shear stress and turbulent stresses ...

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Stochastic bedload transport in mountain streams

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Describing bedload transport as a stochastic process is an idea that emerged in the 1930s with the pioneering work of Einstein. For a long time, the stochastic approach attracted marginal attention, but the situation has radically changed over the last dec ...

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The origin of fine sediment determines the observations of suspended sediment fluxes under unsteady flow conditions

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Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Bed-Load Transport of a Finite-Depth Sediment Layer: Applications to Channel Flushing

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American Geophysical Union2017

EFFECT OF THE BED LOAD GRADATION ON THE MORPHODYNAMICS OF DISCORDANT CONFLUENCES

António Heleno Cardoso, Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Sebastián Guillén Ludeña

Within the fluvial network, river confluences are particular areas characterized by complex hydrodynamic, morphodynamic and sedimentary processes. These processes have been observed to be governed by parameters such as the discharge ratio, the junction ang ...

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Particle diffusion in non-equilibrium bedload transport simulations

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This paper examines the importance of particle diffusion relative to advection in bed load transport. Particle diffusion is not included in existing approaches to bedload transport. Based on recent advances in the probabilistic theory of sediment transport ...

Elsevier Science Inc2016

A parametrical study on secondary flow in sharp open-channel bends: experiments and theoretical modelling

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The dependence of curvature-induced secondary flow on the curvature ratio H/R (H is the average flow depth and R is the centreline radius of curvature), the Froude number Fr, and the dimensionless roughness coefficient Cf was systematically investigated in ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016