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Time-based failure analysis of compressed riverbank riprap

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

Methods to design riprap-lined channels usually refer to dumped material. Large blocks placed individually by machinery are used when more stability is required. They offer additional resistance against flow erosion since space between blocks is minimized ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Probing whole-stream metabolism: influence of spatial heterogeneity on rate estimates

Janine Rüegg

Whole-stream metabolism has been estimated by measuring in-stream oxygen (O2) concentrations since the method was introduced over 50 years ago. However, the influence of measurement location and estimation method on metabolism rates is understudied. We ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

The dam-break problem for eroding viscoplastic fluids.

Christophe Ancey, Belinda Margaret Bates

Natural gravity-driven flows can increase in volume by eroding the bed on which they descend. This process is called basal entrainment and is thought to play a key role in the bulk dynamics of geophysical flows. Although its study is difficult using field ...

Elsevier2017

The role of the hyporheic flow on sediment transport processes : an experimental approach using particle image velocimetry.

Christophe Ancey, Gauthier Paul Daniel Marie Rousseau, Daniel Vito Papa, Angeliki Sklivaniti

The study of river dynamics usually considers a turbulent stream on an impervious bed. However, it is known that part of the total discharge takes place through the erodible bed, especially for mountain rivers. This hyporheic flow (or subsurface flow) is l ...

2017

Gravel bars are sites of increased CO2 outgassing in stream corridors

Tom Ian Battin

Streams are significant sources of CO2 to the atmosphere. Estimates of CO2 evasion fluxes (fCO2) from streams typically relate to the free flowing water but exclude geomorphological structures within the stream corridor. We found that gravel bars (GBs) are ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

INFLUENCE OF THE INITIAL VOLUME OF LOCK EXCHANGE GRAVITY CURRENTS ON THE SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENT CAPACITY

Jessica Zordan

In the lock-exchange technique used to produce gravity currents, two fluids of different densities are initially at rest in a tank and separated by a vertical barrier, the lock gate. When this gate is suddenly removed, the two fluids come into contact and, ...

2017

Modeling Flow Pattern and Evolution of Meandering Channels with a Nonlinear Model

Koen Blanckaert

Meander dynamics has been the focus of river engineering for decades; however, it remains a challenge for researchers to precisely replicate natural evolution processes of meandering channels with numerical models due to the high nonlinearity of the govern ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Modelling landslides in unsaturated slopes subjected to rainfall infiltration using material point method

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Samila Sanjeevanie Bandara

This paper presents a dynamic fully coupled formulation for saturated and unsaturated soils that undergo large deformations based on material point method. Governing equations are applied to porous material while considering it as a continuum in which the ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Entrainment,motion, and deposition of coarse particles transported by water over a sloping mobile bed

Christophe Ancey, Joris Heyman

In gravel bed rivers, bed load transport exhibits considerable variability in time and space. Recently, stochastic bed load transport theories have been developed to address the mechanisms and effects of bed load transport fluctuations. Stochastic models i ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Assessment of the performance of numerical modeling in reproducing a replenishment of sediments in a water-worked channel

Anton Schleiss, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Elena Battisacco

The artificial replenishment of sediment is used as a method to re-establish sediment continuity down- stream of a dam. However, the impact of this technique on the hydraulics conditions, and resulting bed morphology, is yet to be understood. Several numer ...

Elsevier2016

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