Themes

Conference Themes

A/ River morphodynamics and restoration:

1. From braiding to meandering rivers
2. Large river bedforms
3. Steep rivers, systems of step-pools
4. Interactions between flow, sediment and vegetation
5. River management and ecology, river restoration

B/ Hydraulic structures and their effects on bed, flow regime and ecology:

1. Scour around structures, impact on ecology
2. Bank erosion and protection
3. Dams and rivers: sedimentation, regulation, restoration, removal
4. Fishways
5. Inland navigation

C/ Sediment and pollutant dynamics in rivers:

1. Sediment supply and management at catchment scale
2. Fine sediment and associated pollutant dynamics
3. Impact of bedforms on the flow and particle suspension
4. In-situ measurements and modelling of the sand dynamics
5. Bedload dynamics of a sediment mixture

D/ Fluid Mechanics and sediment processes:

1. Mixing processes
2. Laboratory experiments and innovative measurement methods
3. Mechanics of sediment transport
4. Advanced computational methods for fluid mechanics, sediment transport, and morphodynamics
5. Physical models

E/ Extreme events:

1. Flooding processes and compound channels
2. Management of hydrological extremes: floods and droughts
3. Urban flooding
4. Innovative in-situ measurements of the flow discharge
5. Computational methods and code calibration for rare events