Buch, Englisch, 856 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1560 g
Iowa City, USA, July 11-14, 2016
Buch, Englisch, 856 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1560 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-02913-2
Verlag: CRC Press
The International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (River Flow) series of conferences was established by the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) in 2002. The conference is organized under the auspices of the Committee for Fluvial Hydraulics of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). Since its initiation in 2002, the River Flow bi-annual conference series has become the major international meeting event in the area of river processes and fluvial hydraulics. The conference series has provided a forum to report on the latest scientific findings, to promote information exchange and cooperation among scientists and researchers who share a common interest in various areas of river flows and fluvial processes including environmental and ecological aspects, morphodynamics and transport processes, as well as in prediction and mitigation of effects of geological hazards associated with river floods and assessing their societal impact.
The 8th edition of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics attracted scientists and engineers with diverse backgrounds including environmental hydraulics and environmental fluid mechanics, as well as scientists whose major focus area include watershed hydrology, sediment transport, geomorphology, geology, geography, freshwater plant and fish biology, and river ecology and sustainability.
Understanding and being able to predict fluvial processes is one of the biggest challenges for hydraulics and environmental engineers, hydrologists and other scientists (e.g., geologists, ecologists, biologists) interested in preserving and restoring the diverse functions of rivers. To address this challenge, a major focus of the River Flow 2016 conference 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 (e.g., heat, dissolved and suspended organic/inorganic material, floods), sediment transport and morphodynamic processes. 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.
Major efforts are under way all over the world in cleaning our rivers and restoring river habitats. Managing rivers in an ecologically friendly way is a major component of sustainable engineering design, maintenance and restoration of ecological habitats. A problem of great importance, in particular for the US Midwest, where the conference took place, is to predict the impacts of floods and the effects of failure of hydraulic structures during floods (e.g., levees). Linking watershed processes with river flow and predicting the impacts of river floods is one of the biggest challenges in river engineering. These research needs were reflected in the topics covered by the conference. In particular, ‘River management, ecology and restoration’ and ‘River floods’ were two of the four major themes of the conference.
There is a need to use the latest research advances in fluvial hydraulics research and related areas to provide solutions to important practical problems that integrate hydrological, geomorphological and/or ecological processes with socio-economic needs. This will help increase the impact of fluvial hydraulics research and, in particular, of its environmentally-related aspects. As such, a main objective of River Flow 2016 was to focus on these aspects. In selecting the papers to be included in the Proceedings, the organizers gave priority to contributions that tried to better understand the relationship between flow and turbulence structure, transport of sediment and surface morphology at various relevant scales for natural streams. Substantial advances are taking place in theoretical and numerical modeling of river flow and transport processes, laboratory modeling and field measurement techniques. In this regard, the conference tried to provide a forum for reporting, exchanging ideas and share discussions on the latest advances in the study, measurement and numerical prediction of river flows and transport processes, with particular emphasis on the areas identified above.
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Postgraduate and Professional
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Weitere Infos & Material
Keynote Lectures Mark Twain, the Mississippi, and modern river engineering G.E. Galloway, Dam safety in the USA and numerical dam-break modeling for decision support in critical infrastructure protection M.S. Altinakar, Exploiting surface turbulence metrics and secondary flows in straight river reaches and open channels E.A. Cowen, S.A. Schweitzer, V.R. Citerone, A.T. King, E.D. Johnson & R.O. Tinoco, Science to inform management for resilient river systems in a changing world, P. Goodwin & A.W. Tranmer, Fluvial dike overtopping: Experimental advances W.H. Hager, Messy rivers are healthy rivers: The role of physical complexity in sustaining ecosystem processes E. Wohl.
A. River flow and transport processes
A1.Laboratory and eddy-resolving numerical investigations of fundamental physical processes and transport in open channels
A2. Field studies and numerical investigations of flow and transport in natural streams
A3. Innovative field and laboratory instrumentation for the study of flow in open channels
Special session: Experimental techniques used in fluvial hydraulics. Organizer: C. di Cristo, University of Lazio, Italy
Special session: Image-based measurements and video analysis. Organizer: Y. Ozeren, University of Mississippi, USA
Special Session: Estimation of uncertainty in hydrometric measurements and other flow measurements of environmental scale. Organizer: J. Gonzalez, South Florida Water Management District, USA
Special session: Environmental role of hydraulic interfaces. Organizers: A. Marion, University of Padua, Italy; F. Ballio, Politechnic University Milan, Italy; J. Aberle, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway & M. Zaramella, University of Padova, Italy
Special session: Buoyancy-driven flows. Organizers: C. Adduce, University of Rome Tre, Italy & M. Franca, EPFL, Switzerland
B. Sediment transport and river morphodynamics
B1. Mechanics of sediment transport
B2. Dynamics of bedforms and meandering streams
B3. Large-scale river morphology and morphodynamics
B4. Local scour around hydraulic structures
B5. Numerical aspects of sediment transport and hyper-concentrated/granular flows
Special session: Reservoir sustainability. Organizer: A. Cox, Saint Louis University, USA
Special session: Applications of hydro-acoustics to river morphodynamics. Organizers: D. Hanes, Saint Louis University, USA & S. Wright, USGS, USA
Special session: Hydrodynamics and morphodynamics of river confluences. Organizer: B. Rhoads, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Special session: Dynamics of meander cutoffs. Organizer: K. Konsoer, Louisianan State University, USA
C. River Floods
C1. Numerical prediction of floods
C2. Channel-floodplain interactions driven by floods
C3. Geomorphic dam-break flows and breach formation
C4. Flood propagation and control
Special session: Flood science for flood prediction, mitigation, and resilience. Organizers: M. Muste, L. Weber & N. Young, IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, USA
D. River management, ecology, and restoration
D1. Sustainable engineering solutions for management of natural streams
D2. River training and design of river restoration structures
D3.Ecological aspects of river flows
D4. Flow in vegetated channels
Special session: Large wood in fluvial ecosystems. Organizer: V. Ruiz-Villanueva, University of Bern, Switzerland
Special session: Fish passage. Organizer: M. Politano, University of Iowa, USA
