Modelling river flow through in-stream natural vegetation for a gravel-bed river reach

Clark, Simon D.A.; Cooper, James R.; Rameshwaran, Ponnambalam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-953X; Naden, Pamela; Li, Ming; Hooke, Janet. 2020 Modelling river flow through in-stream natural vegetation for a gravel-bed river reach. In: Kalinowska, Monika B.; Mrokowska, Magdalena M.; Rowiński, Paweł M., (eds.) Recent trends in environmental hydraulics: 38th International School of Hydraulics. Cham, Switzerland, Springer, 33-41. (GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences).

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37105-0_3

Abstract/Summary

Macrophytes (aquatic vegetation) are known to modify river flow by reducing local velocities, increasing turbulence generation, and reducing channel conveyance capacity resulting in increased flow depth. Understanding flow response to vegetation change is imperative to inform flood mitigation strategies, however the field is nascent with much uncertainty surrounding the estimation of flow conveyance in vegetated channels and, subsequently, the best vegetation management practices and possible flood risk. Therefore, in order to develop an understanding of how macrophytes modify flow conveyance modelling techniques must be developed which can effectively represent the three-dimensional effect of natural vegetation within an open channel flow environment. This study simulated vegetation-flow interaction using a 3D finite-element modelling method to investigate the feasibility to which a vegetated natural gravel-bed river can be represented using the drag-force approach. Two methods of parameterising vegetation-induced drag were explored to investigate the effect of flow behaviour within a vegetated gravel-bed river reach.

Item Type:	Publication - Book Section
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1007/978-3-030-37105-0_3
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Hydro-climate Risks (Science Area 2017-) UKCEH Fellows
ISBN:	9783030371043
ISSN:	2190-5193
Additional Keywords:	computational fluid dynamics (CFD), macrophytes, plant patches, fluvial, finite element
NORA Subject Terms:	Hydrology
Date made live:	28 Apr 2022 13:23 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532549

Item Type:

Publication - Book Section

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1007/978-3-030-37105-0_3

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Hydro-climate Risks (Science Area 2017-)
UKCEH Fellows

ISBN:

9783030371043

ISSN:

2190-5193

Additional Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics (CFD), macrophytes, plant patches, fluvial, finite element