Rivers – Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Physical Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Basic Physical Processes in Rivers

      • John D. Fenton

      Pages 3-50

   3. Turbulence in Rivers

      • Mário J. Franca, Maurizio Brocchini

      Pages 51-78

   4. Principles of Mechanics of Bedforms

      • Domenico Ferraro, Subhasish Dey

      Pages 79-98

   5. Scour Problems Downstream of Low-Head Hydraulic Structures

      • Stefano Pagliara, Michele Palermo

      Pages 99-119

   6. Current Research and Challenges Related to Shallow Flows

      • Wim Uijttewaal

      Pages 121-136

   7. One-Dimensional Modeling of Flows in Open Channels

      • Dariusz Gąsiorowski, Jarosław J. Napiórkowski, Romuald Szymkiewicz

      Pages 137-167

   8. Modeling of Floods—State of the Art and Research Challenges

      • Roger Moussa, Bruno Cheviron

      Pages 169-192

   9. Numerical Modeling of Free-Surface Flows in Practical Applications

      • Mario Oertel

      Pages 193-211

   10. Laboratory Models of Free-Surface Flows

       • Daniel B. Bung

       Pages 213-227

   11. Measurements of Turbulence Structure in a Compound Channel

       • Adam Paweł Kozioł, Janusz Kubrak

       Pages 229-254

   12. Uncertainty Analysis in River Modelling

       • Jord J. Warmink, Martijn J. Booij

       Pages 255-277

3. Fluvial Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279

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   2. Channel Stability: Morphodynamics and the Morphology of Rivers

      • Michael Church

      Pages 281-321

   3. Principles of Bedload Transport of Non-cohesive Sediment in Open-Channels

      • Rui M. L. Ferreira, Marwan A. Hassan, Carles Ferrer-Boix

      Pages 323-372

   4. Recent Advances from Research on Meandering and Directions for Future Work

      • Ana Maria Ferreira da Silva

      Pages 373-401

   5. Fluvial Processes in Braided Rivers

      • Nicola Surian

      Pages 403-425

   6. Lagrangian Modelling of Saltating Sediment Transport: A Review

      • Robert J. Bialik

      Pages 427-441

   7. Runoff Generation and Soil Erosion After Forest Fires from the Slopes to the Rivers at a Basin Scale

      • Antonio Velasco, Xavier Úbeda

      Pages 443-458

This book describes the domain of research and investigation of physical, chemical and biological attributes of flowing water, and it deals with a cross-disciplinary field of study combining physical, geophysical, hydraulic, technological, environmental interests. It aims to equip engineers, geophysicists, managers working in water-related arenas as well as advanced students and researchers with the most up to date information available on the state of knowledge about rivers, particularly their physical, fluvial and environmental processes. Information from various but also interrelated areas available in one volume is the main benefit for potential  readers. All chapters are prepared by leading experts from the leading research laboratories from all over the world.

• Environmental Hydraulics
• Fluvial Processes
• Physics of Rivers
• Rivers Modeling
• Sediment and Pollution Transport in Rivers

• Insitute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

  Paweł Rowiński

• Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Geotechnics, Agricultural University of Cracow, Krakow, Poland

  Artur Radecki-Pawlik

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