Book Description
This text covers river training techniques. Divided into two parts, it discusses properties of rivers and fundamentals of river engineering and flood protection.
Author : R. Blazejewski
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789054101963
This text covers river training techniques. Divided into two parts, it discusses properties of rivers and fundamentals of river engineering and flood protection.
Author : A. Finotello
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2024-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1786205971
Meandering patterns shaped by fluid flows are found over a broad range of landscapes, from bedrock channels to rivers and estuaries, deep-marine environments, supraglacial streams and other planets such as Mars and Venus. During the last six decades, meanders have been widely investigated by researchers from different fields, such as fluid mechanics, geomorphology, ecology, civil- and petroleum engineering, and geology. This volume seeks to push the science of meandering forward by bringing together insights gained from field, laboratory and numerical investigations of meandering streams found in distinct environmental and geological contexts. The authors pay particular attention to the interactions between autogenic and allogenic processes that affect meander kinematics and the resulting morphology, sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture. The findings presented in this volume contribute to a better understanding of stream meandering in diverse settings, with broad implications for stream and wetland restoration, land management, infrastructure design, oil exploration and production, carbon sequestration, hazard mitigation and planetary palaeoenvironmental reconstructions.
Author : Gary Parker
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1281 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1439833893
The proceedings of the 4th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics offers the latest research results concerning quantitative modelling of the interaction of water and sediment and the shapes this interaction makes in rivers, watersheds, estuaries, the coast, the continental shelf and the deep sea. Morphodynamics is the study of the evolution of landscape and seascape features, from small scale to large.
Author : Bruce L. Rhoads
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108173780
Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are fundamental in landscape development, and essential for water supply, irrigation, and transportation. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphological processes that shape rivers and that produce change in the form of rivers. It explores how the dynamics of rivers are being affected by anthropogenic change, including climate change, dam construction, and modification of rivers for flood control and land drainage. It discusses how concern about environmental degradation of rivers has led to the emergence of management strategies to restore and naturalize these systems, and how river management techniques work best when coordinated with the natural dynamics of rivers. This textbook provides an excellent resource for students, researchers, and professionals in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, river science, and environmental policy.
Author : W. Bechteler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351407031
Conference Proceedings of Euromech 192: Transport of suspended solids in open channels, Munich, Neubiberg, 11-15 June 1985. Rapid growth in water requirements makes it necessary to increase the amount of water drawn from rivers. The dams necessary for capturing river water have to be built to resist damage when large floods occur, and an idea of the possible destructive power of floods is given by the front cover photograph.
Author : Syunsuke Ikeda
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Silvia Susana Ginsberg
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9533071893
Sediment transport is a book that covers a wide variety of subject matters. It combines the personal and professional experience of the authors on solid particles transport and related problems, whose expertise is focused in aqueous systems and in laboratory flumes. This includes a series of chapters on hydrodynamics and their relationship with sediment transport and morphological development. The different contributions deal with issues such as the sediment transport modeling; sediment dynamics in stream confluence or river diversion, in meandering channels, at interconnected tidal channels system; changes in sediment transport under fine materials, cohesive materials and ice cover; environmental remediation of contaminated fine sediments. This is an invaluable interdisciplinary textbook and an important contribution to the sediment transport field. I strongly recommend this textbook to those in charge of conducting research on engineering issues or wishing to deal with equally important scientific problems.
Author : Kim Wium Olesen
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fluid mechanics
ISBN :
Author : Xinming Tang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 2385 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0415408156
Developments in Geographic Information Technology have raised the expectations of users. A static map is no longer enough; there is now demand for a dynamic representation. Time is of great importance when operating on real world geographical phenomena, especially when these are dynamic. Researchers in the field of Temporal Geographical Information Systems (TGIS) have been developing methods of incorporating time into geographical information systems. Spatio-temporal analysis embodies spatial modelling, spatio-temporal modelling and spatial reasoning and data mining. Advances in Spatio-Temporal Analysis contributes to the field of spatio-temporal analysis, presenting innovative ideas and examples that reflect current progress and achievements.
Author : Jiaxing Zhang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 2590 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1138026743
This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Informatics, Networking and Intelligent Computing, held in Shenzhen, China. Contributions cover the latest developments and advances in the field of Informatics, Networking and Intelligent Computing.