Geophysical Flows—Fluid-Structure Interaction and Transport Phenomena
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 3827
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental flows; fluvial and aeolian processes; porous media; multi-phase flows complex topographies; fluid-structure interaction; geomorphology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Geophysical flows are key drivers of environmental evolution. Occurring across an expansive range of spatial scales, they are crucially important to both science and engineering. Environmental flows transport the chemical elements that are central to all ecosystems, thus directly controlling life sustainability (hydrology, ecology). Through complex fluid-structure interaction mechanisms, they interface with infrastructure, potentially threatening their integrity (civil engineering). They sculpt planetary surfaces into dynamically changing topographies by bolstering erosion and sustaining sediment mobilization (geomorphology). The energy carried by geophysical flows, while at times accompanied by catastrophic events (volcanic explosions, floods, avalanches, tsunamis), constitutes a largely available critical resource, potentially capable of meeting the demands of modern societal activities (renewable energy). However, despite their paramount societal importance, our current understanding of the physics underlying these flows and of the processes associated with them remains limited, in part due to their multi-dimensional, multi-phase and/or time-dependent nature which hinders their investigation.
The goal of this Special Issue of Geosciences is to harvest research from disparate groups, leveraging traditional and newly available approaches, including multi-disciplinary efforts, to study geophysical flows using theoretical and experimental (field, laboratory, numerical) investigations.
This special issue aims to cover, without being limited to, the following areas:
- river, aeolian, atmospheric and ocean flows processes;
- flow through porous media (including canopies and urban environments);
- laminar and turbulent environmental flows;
- fluid-structure interaction with topography (e.g. bedforms, mountains, buildings);
- eco-hydraulics (e.g. hyporheic fluxes, contaminant transport);
- sediment transport and morphodynamics;
Dr. Gianluca Blois
Dr. Nathaniel Bristow
Guest Editors
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