Abstract: This note deals with the influence of debris accumulation on scour around bridge piers. Clear-water experiments in different hydraulic conditions have been carried out with three wood debris shapes: rectangular, triangular, ...

Abstract: Interaction between the free surface and the bed material in flow over rock chutes under macroroughness conditions leads to a high air entrainment into the flow. The note reports on an experimental study about air diffusion ...

Abstract: Rock chutes or block ramps are fishway passages with low environmental impact. They also contribute to reaeration of rivers with low dissolved oxygen content, owing to the turbulence enhanced by their three-dimensional ...

Abstract: Extratropical cyclones (ETCs) are major storm, flood-producing events along the northwest European coastline. To evaluate the storm surge risk covering a return period over as many as 10,000 years (0.01% annual exceedance ...