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Design of Riverbank Riprap Using Large, Individually Placed Blocks

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi

The protection of river banks in mountain rivers by riprap requires large blocks with weights typically exceeding 1 t. Thus, the blocks have to be placed individually. Such packed riprap has a relatively small spacing between the blocks. Consequently, the ...

2019

Biomorphological scaling laws from convectively accelerated streams

Paolo Perona, Giulio Calvani, Coralie Schick

Worldwide convectively accelerated streams flowing in downstream-narrowing river sections show that riverbed vegetation growing on alluvial sediment bars gradually disappears, forming a front beyond which vegetation is absent. We revise a recently proposed ...

2019

Effects of drought on the effectiveness of Phalaris arundinacea and Impatiens glandulifera in building up soil aggregates – a microcosm approach

Thomas George McMullin

Near natural floodplain ecosystems are not only stressed by frequent inundations over a year but also by periodical droughts in summer due to their reduced water retention capacity. To maintain floodplain habitats as biodiversity hotspots, a stable soil st ...

2017

Hydro-morphodynamics of open-channel confluences with low discharge ratio and dominant tributary sediment supply

Sebastián Guillén Ludeña

River confluences in which the tributary supplies the dominant sediment load, and the flow discharge is abundantly provided by the main river, are typically observed in mountain-river basins. The existent knowledge on the hydrodynamic, morphodynamic and se ...

EPFL2015

Metapopulation persistence and species spread in river networks

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto

River networks define ecological corridors characterised by unidirectional streamflow, which may impose downstream drift to aquatic organisms or affect their movement. Animals and plants manage to persist in riverine ecosystems, though, which in fact harbo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Three dimensional flow field at confluent fixed-bed open channels

Sebastián Guillén Ludeña, António Heleno Cardoso

River confluences are known for their marked 3D patterns and, due to the complexity of local flow features and bed morphology, they require particular consideration. Although there are studies on the flow structure in junctions of two streams, amore detail ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

Swiss Competences in River Engineering and Restoration

The world is like a river, running along in its bed, this way and that, forming sandbanks by chance and then being forced by these to take a different course. Whereas this all proceeds smoothly and easily and gradually, the river engineers have great diffi ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

Flow and sediment dynamics in channel confluences

Anton Schleiss, Koen Blanckaert, Marcelo Leite Ribeiro, André Roy

Confluences with relatively low discharge and momentum flux ratios where a small steep tributary with a high supply of poorly sorted sediment joins a large, low-gradient main channel commonly occur in nature, but they have not yet been investigated. Measur ...

2012

Failure risk analysis of riverbank ripraps with Monte Carlo simulation

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi

The potential failure evaluation of river embankment structures such as ripraps, resulting from erosion or over-flows during flood events, is the main issue of their stability and safety assessment. Moreover, a changed sediment transport in rivers as a pos ...

Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press (2012

Hydrologic controls and anthropogenic drivers of the zebra mussel invasion of the Mississippi-Missouri river system

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto

We propose a novel ecohydrological model for the invasion of inland waters by the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha and test it against field data gathered within the Mississippi-Missouri river system in North America. This biological invasion poses major ...

American Geophysical Union2011

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