Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

To gain a better understanding of the global application of soil erosion prediction models, we comprehensively reviewed relevant peer-reviewed research literature on soil-erosion modelling published between 1994 and 2017. We aimed to identify (i) the processes and models most frequently addressed in the literature, (i…

• GÜNAY ERPUL

Abstract The exposure of the Earth’s surface to the energetic input of rainfall is one of the key factors controlling water erosion. While water erosion is identified as the most serious cause of soil degradation globally, global patterns of rainfall erosivity remain poorly quantified and estimates have large uncertai…

• GÜNAY ERPUL

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• HAFZÜLLAH AKSOY

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Fundamental to our understanding of erosional and transport phenomena in earth-surface dynamics and engineering is knowledge of the conditions under which sediment motion will begin when subjected to turbulent flow. The onset criterion currently in use emphasizes the time-averaged boundary shear stress and therefore i…

• AHMET OZAN ÇELİK

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• NECATİ AĞIRALİOĞLU

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• FARUK OCAKOĞLU

Estimation of maximum possible scour depth around bridge piers is an important step in the design of bridge pier foundations. Under known hydrological characteristics such as peak discharge and time‐to‐peak value of design flood hydrograph, smaller scour depths can be obtained compared to the equilbrium scour depths c…

The writers’ experiments on local scour at vertical cylinders placed in a sand bed show that similitude of large-scale turbulence is an important consideration influencing equilibrium depth of local scour. For the range of cylinder diameters used in their experiments, the writers identify a direct trend between equili…

Abstract Limited information exists on one of the mechanisms governing sediment input to streams: streambank erosion by ground water seepage. The objective of this research was to demonstrate the importance of streambank composition and stratigraphy in controlling seepage flow and to quantify correlation of seepage fl…

• ONUR AKAY

The relationship between hydrological connectivity and species diversity patterns (alpha and beta diversity) of macrophytes, molluscs, odonates and amphibians was investigated in a semi-natural floodplain segment in the ‘Alluvial Zone National Park’ of the Danube River in Austria. Based on environmental variables, we…

Large-eddy simulation (LES) and laboratory-flume visualizations were used to investigate coherent structures present in the flow field around a circular cylinder located in a scour hole. The bathymetry corresponds to equilibrium scour conditions and is fixed in LES. The flow parameters in the simulation correspond to…