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Sedimentation

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Geomorphic work by gravity currents with varying initial conditions

Gravity currents are density-driven flows that are able to transport high amounts of sediment and are responsible of great geomorphic changes. Moreover they can have severe repercussions on the environment since they are conveyors of substances, e.g. pollu ...

EPFL2018

Morphological resilience to flow fluctuations of fine sediment deposits in bank lateral cavities

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Matthias Thalmann

Lateral cavities are built in the banks of rivers for several purposes: to create harbors, to capture sed- iment, to keep a central navigable channel (i.e., Casiers de Girardon in the Rhone river) or to promote the formation of aquatic habitats if a limite ...

2018

Bar dynamics and sediment transport pulses in gravel-bed channels.

Christophe Ancey, Blaise Etienne Marceau Dhont

Mountain rivers exhibit sediment transport rate fluctuations that often cover more than two orders of magnitude. Bedform migration is often cited as the key process that causes giant fluctuations in the sediment transport rate. To quantify the effect of be ...

EDP Sciences2018

Sediment balance of a cascade of alpine reservoirs based on multi-decadal data records

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sebastián Guillén Ludeña

Reservoir sedimentation is a major concern in the operational management of dams and appurtenant structures. The increasing volume of sediments deposited in reservoirs leads to a loss of water storage, undermining the purpose itself of the dam for human us ...

2018

Global and local anthropogenic effects on hydrodynamics of lakes

Carl Love Mikael Råman Vinnå

In many countries water quality is a major concern for drinking water management authorities. Freshwater is a limited resource and the demand for good-quality water from natural aquatic systems is therefore high. Additional stress arises from anthropogenic ...

EPFL2018

Periodic Motion of Sedimenting Flexible Knots

Giovanni Dietler, Krishnan Thyagarajan, Andrzej Stasiak

We study the dynamics of knotted deformable closed chains sedimenting in a viscous fluid. We show experimentally that trefoil and other torus knots often attain a remarkably regular horizontal toroidal structure while sedimenting, with a number of intertwi ...

APS2018

Investigation of a wind-packing event in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

Michael Lehning, Nander Wever, Christian Gabriel Sommer, Charles Fierz

Surface snow in polar and mountainous regions is often mobile and this mobility influences surface mass balance and isotopic composition before final deposition, which is poorly understood thus far. In December 2016 and January 2017, during a field campaig ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2018

INVESTIGATION OF TURBIDITY CURRENT VENTING FOR TWO DIFFERENT RESERVOIR BED SLOPES

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Sabine Chamoun

Reservoirs represent an important source of energy that should be preserved and sustained. However, the lifetime of reservoirs is being reduced due to natural processes such as sedimentation. To face this problem, different sediment mitigation techniques a ...

2017

Fine sediment routing in a cascade of alpine reservoirs: Influence of the inlet angle on settling of fine sediments

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sebastián Guillén Ludeña

Reservoir sedimentation is, at present, one of the main concerns in the operational management of dams. The resulting reduction of storage capacity has negative impacts on the hydropower production, flood protection, and availability of water for irrigatio ...

2017

Influence of outlet discharge on the efficiency of turbidity current venting

Sabine Chamoun

Sediment yield into reservoirs was underestimated during the design of dams in the past. As a result, today, reservoir sedimentation is endangering the sustainability of dams. Moreover, the obstruction of rivers hinders their capacity to transport sediment ...

EPFL2017

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