Fluid Mechanics of Open Channel Flow
A special issue of Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2018)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydraulic engineering; applied fluid mechanics; multiphase flows; hydrodynamics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water plays a major role in human perception of the environment because it is an indispensable element and human life is totally dependent upon water. The technical challenges facing hydraulic engineers are formidable and sustained research efforts are essential. Hydraulic engineers are at the forefront of science to deliver water to the community, as well as to protect our society from waterrelated disasters. Although hydraulic engineers have a leading role to contribute, the technical challenges in open channel flows are huge. The extreme levels of complexity are closely linked with the variety of water systems, the broad range of relevant time and length scales, the variability of river flows from droughts to gigantic floods, the complexity of basic fluid mechanics with non-linear governing equations, natural flow instabilities, interactions between water, solid, air and biological life.
Following of Hunter Rouse's classical text "Fluid Mechanics for Hydraulic Engineers" (1938), the aim of this Special Issue is to present a group of papers that could summarize the state-of-the-art of the fluid dynamics of open channel flows, in environmental geophysical and man-made applications, at the time of reporting novel pathways in research. It will contain experimental, theoretical and numerical contributions on the topic.
Contributions to the special issue will be by invitations (only).
Prof. Hubert Chanson
Prof. Fabian Bombardelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fluid mechanics
- hydraulic engineering
- theoretical analysis
- physical modelling
- hydraulic modelling
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