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Special Issue: River Confluences and Shallow Mixing Interfaces

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
29 May 2023
Submission deadline
Ongoing
The special issue will focus on fundamental and applied aspects of shallow mixing layers and shallow mixing interfaces and on related transport processes in both canonical configurations and in natural environments (river confluences) across a wide range of scales. The special issue will focus on ‘hot’ research topics such as the role of large-scale turbulence in controlling mixing, sediment transport and morphodynamics processes at natural confluences and on how channel geometry, bed roughness and density contrast between the incoming streams affect the growth and spatial development of shallow mixing layers and shallow mixing interfaces. It will also seek contributions discussing the impact of confluent flows on water chemistry and quality and riverine biodiversity and ecology.

Editors

  • George Constantinescu George Constantinescu  &

    George Constantinescu

    Dr. Constantinescu is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Iowa and a Research Engineer at IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering. His research program is based on the use of eddy-resolving simulations to understand the physics of several important classes of environmental and geo-physical flows. Dr. Constantinescu’s current research focuses on turbulence and transport in rivers and lakes, stratified flows, shallow flows, eco-hydraulics, numerical modeling of floods and flow in porous media.

  • Carlo Gualtieri Carlo Gualtieri

    Carlo Gualtieri

    The scientific focus of Prof. Carlo Gualtieri (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy) is Environmental Hydraulics. He studied the exchange processes across the environmental interfaces (air-entrainment, hyporheic fluxes, turbulent diffusion) through laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. In the last decade his main research area was the study, in cooperation with many foreign scholars, of hydrodynamics, morphodynamics and sediment transport in large-size rivers and confluences, such as Amazon, Congo, Orinoco, Yangtze, and Yarlung Zangbo-Brahamaputra, using a combination of field investigation and remote sensing imagery.

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