Bank erosion processes in waterways

Bank erosion processes in waterways

Duro, G. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (TU Delft Environmental Fluid Mechanics)
Kleinhans, M (Universiteit Utrecht)
Crosato, A. (TU Delft Environmental Fluid Mechanics; IHE Delft Institute for Water Education)

2017

Waterways serve for several functions besides  transporting goods and people. The ecological  importance of navigable rivers has taken much  attention during recent decades bringing efforts  to improve these natural corridors for fauna and  flora (Boeters et al., 1997).  Following the policy of the European Water  Framework Directive (WFD), many Dutch river  reaches have been recently restored through the  removal of bank protections in search for better  riparian habitats (Florsheim et al., 2009), but they  also result exposed to erosive forces. Large  uncertainties generally surround the prediction of  erosion rates (e.g. Samadi et al., 2009) due to  complex flow characteristics in the near-bank  region, variable soil properties, etc. A better  understanding of bank erosion processes is then  of interest to predict erosion rates and improve  the design of future interventions. 

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NCR-Days 2017, 2017-02-01 → 2017-02-03, Wageningen, Netherlands

A.J.F. Hoitink, T.V. de Ruijsscher, T.J. Geertsema, B. Makaske, J. Wallinga, J.H.J. Candel, J. Poelman (Eds.) NCR days 2017, Febr. 1-3, 2017. Book of abstracts, NCR publication 41-2017.

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