Experiments on flow separation at the inner bank of open-channel bends

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Koen Blanckaert, Joris Heyman, Miao Wei, Danxun Li, Anton Schleiss

Wednesday 1 july 2015

11:15 - 11:30h at Oceania (level 0)

Themes: (T) Sediment management and morphodynamics, (ST) River morphodynamics

Parallel session: 9B. Sediment - River

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In spite of its hydraulic and morphologic importance, the conditions of occurrence of flow separation at the inner bank of open channel bends are still not known. The paper reports a series of experiments in a laboratory open channel bend that investigate how the process of inner-bank flow separation depends on the flow depth, Froude number, and bed roughness.