Insights for river restoration: The impacts of vegetation canopy length and canopy discontinuity on riverbed evolution

F Li, Y Shan, M Li, Y Guo, C Liu - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
River restoration projects often involve vegetation planting to retain sediment and stabilize
riverbanks. Laboratory experiments have explored the impact of rigid emergent vegetation …

Modeling velocity in a compound channel with co-existing emergent and submerged vegetation

R Hu, J Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Vegetation on a floodplain, which contains both emergent vegetation and submerged
vegetation, has a considerable influence on the velocity profile of the channel. In this study …

The interaction between vegetation patchiness and tidal flows in a shortleaf seagrass meadow

TD da Silva, JC Mullarney, CA Pilditch… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrasses are critical coastal habitats that provide numerous ecosystem services. The
inherent patchiness within meadows exerts a significant influence on the flow‐vegetation …

Investigation of turbulence and interfacial exchange features of the gap area within the fully developed Shallow-Submerged canopy flow

M Liu, S Yuan, H Tang, W Huai, J Yan - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
The flow patterns within a longitudinal gap area formed by discontinuous distributions of
submerged canopy, as well as the momentum and mass exchange characteristics between …

Canopy randomness, scale, and stem size effects on the interfacial transfer process in vegetated flows

CY Tseng, RO Tinoco - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic vegetation plays an important role in natural water environments by interacting with
the flow and generating turbulence that affects the air‐water and sediment‐water interfacial …

On the effects of turbulence modulation driven by suspended sediment stratification in emergent rigid canopies

P Ranjan, RO Tinoco - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic vegetation has the potential to increase suspended sediment capture while also
increasing sediment resuspension and bedload transport. Suspended sediment can induce …

Numerical study of mean and turbulent flow adjustments in open channels with limited near-bank vegetation patches

M Liu, W Huai, H Tang, Y Wang, S Yuan - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Artificially planted nearshore limited-size vegetation patches are widely used as near-
natural measures for bank protection and habitat creation, highlighting the importance of …

Numerical Modelling of Flow-Vegetation Interactions in Rivers and Coastal Environments: Recent Trends and Future Research Directions

TI Marjoribanks - International Conference on River Corridor Research …, 2022 - Springer
Vegetation is a common occurrence within natural rivers and coastal systems. It can have a
profound effect on flow and sediment dynamics which means it may be utilised as a nature …