Understanding and being able to predict fluvial processes is one of the biggest challenges for hydraulics and environmental engineers, hydrologists and other scientists interested in preserving and restoring the diverse functions of rivers. The interactions among flow, turbulence, vegetation, macroinvertebrates and other organisms, as well as the transport and retention of particulate matter, have important consequences on the ecological health of rivers. Managing rivers in an ecologically friendly way is a major component of sustainable engineering design, maintenance and restoration of ecological habitats. To address these challenges, a major focus of River Flow 2016 was to highlight the latest advances in experimental, computational and theoretical approaches that can be used to deepen our understanding and capacity to predict flow and the associated fluid-driven ecological processes, anthropogenic influences, sediment transport and morphodynamic processes.

River Flow 2016 was organized under the auspices of the Committee for Fluvial Hydraulics of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). Since its first edition in 2002, the River Flow conference series has become the main international event focusing on river hydrodynamics, sediment transport, river engineering and restoration. Some of the highlights of the 8th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics were to focus on inter-disciplinary research involving, among others, ecological and biological aspects relevant to river flows and processes and to emphasize broader themes dealing with river sustainability. River Flow 2016 contains the contributions presented during the regular sessions covering the main conference themes and the special sessions focusing on specific hot topics of river flow research, and will be of interest to academics interested in hydraulics, hydrology and environmental engineering.

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Information

Publisher

CRC Press

Year

2016

ISBN

9781317289111

Edition

Topic

Tecnología e ingeniería

Subtopic

Ingeniería civil

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Organization
Sponsors
Keynote lectures
A. River flow and transport processes
Special session: Experimental techniques used in fluvial hydraulics
Special session: Image-based measurements and video analysis
Special Session: Estimation of uncertainty in hydrometric measurements and other flow measurements of environmental scale
Special session: Environmental role of hydraulic interfaces
Special session: Buoyancy-driven flows
B. Sediment transport and river morphodynamics
Special session: Reservoir sustainability
Special session: Applications of hydro-acoustics to river morphodynamics
Special session: Hydrodynamics and morphodynamics of river confluences
Special session: Dynamics of meander cutoffs
C. River Floods
Special session: Flood science for flood prediction, mitigation, and resilience
D. River management, ecology, and restoration
Special session: Large wood in fluvial ecosystems
Special session: Fish passage
Author index