Vegetation-Influenced Water Flow and Sediment Transport
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 8266
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrodynamics of vegetated flow; open channel flow; sediment transport; modeling; vegetated landscape evolution
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Interests: compound channel flow; vegetation hydrodynamics; sediment transport; modeling; fluvial processes
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Interests: hydrodynamics of vegetated flow; ecological disaster prevention; disaster mitigation; sediment loss; modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquatic vegetation exists in natural rivers, streams, marshes, and coastal regions and influences the ecosystem by altering flow structure and modifying bed morphology. In restoration projects, planting appropriate vegetation has become a proper way to mitigate sediment loss and stabilize banks. Vegetation drag shapes velocity and turbulent kinematic energy profiles and impacts sediment transport. Compared to a bare channel, flow velocity is reduced in a vegetated region and promotes sediment retention. Conversely, turbulence intensity is enhanced and promotes sediment transport. The competing trends make sediment retention and loss challenging to estimate, and the unclear sediment transport tendency increases the difficulty of evaluating the evolution of vegetated landscapes. Therefore, it is important to understand how vegetation impacts flow development and sediment transport.
This Special Issue will focus on vegetation-influenced flow and sediment transport but is not limited to it. For example, the influence of vegetation on combined current and wave, the impact of vegetation on overbank flows, and the simulation of vegetated landscapes are also welcome. We sincerely invite researchers to submit their experimental, numerical, theoretical, and field studies regarding vegetation-influenced flow and sediment transport.
Prof. Dr. Chao Liu
Prof. Dr. Kejun Yang
Dr. Yuqi Shan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrodynamics of vegetated flow
- flow structure
- sediment motion
- bed morphology
- vegetated landscape evolution
- overbank flow
- combined current and wave
- modeling method
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