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Flow characteristics and morphological changes in open-channel flows with alternate vegetation zones

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In this study, turbulent flows and morphological changes in an open-channel that has alternate vegetated zones are numerically simulated by using a three-dimensional model. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes Equations are solved with the k-ɛ model. The simulated flow structures compared well with the measured data in the literature. Through numerical experiments, the evolution of the mean flow and turbulence structures for different vegetation densities is presented. The vegetation was found to curve the flow, and the meandering flow pattern becomes more definite with increasing vegetation density. When the channel morphological changes are simulated with a series of floods, the initial rectangular channel becomes a compound channel and the flow pattern changes from a straight stream to a meandering stream. The evolution of vegetation zones after the floods indicates that vegetation zones are expanded in the leeward of the initial vegetation zones, and that the size of the vegetation zone is increased about 2.5 times.

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Kang, H. Flow characteristics and morphological changes in open-channel flows with alternate vegetation zones. KSCE J Civ Eng 17, 1157–1165 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12205-013-0346-5

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