Sediment Movement, Sustainable Water Conservancy and Water Transport

Dear Colleagues, 

In recent decades, sediment transport has been a hot issue for sedimentologists to study. Especially in water conservancy and water transportation engineering, the changes in the topography of rivers, lakes, and estuaries caused by sediment movement are of great interest. Human activities have an increasingly important influence on the sediment movement of watersheds and rivers. The water resource development in large river terraces has greatly changed the water and sediment movement patterns in the upstream and downstream dams. Thus, increasing anthropogenic interventions affect rivers' hydrological processes and sediment dynamics and threaten the habitat structure and aquatic ecosystem diversity. An improved understanding of hydrological, hydrodynamic, and sediment transport and morphological processes is needed to address these challenges. Moreover, there is an urgent need to improve predictive models to increase the prediction accuracy of streambed evolution.

This Special Issue aims to bring together recent theoretical and applied research on a wide range of topics related to flow and water quality processes in modeling river and coastal watershed systems from the catchment to the coast, for example, innovative studies that use new monitoring, modeling, or analytical techniques to investigate the reciprocal response mechanisms of sediment movement under complex conditions a well as hydraulic engineering and water transport engineering applications. This Special Issue of Sustainability calls for innovative research papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

(1) Impacts of runoff and sediment transport variations;
(2) Sediment budget and sediment yields;
(3) Riverbed evolutionary process;
(4) Impacts of dams on the upstream and downstream hydrological conditions;
(5) Impacts of hydrological changes on morphological changes;
(6) Movement characteristics of suspended sediment and bed load sediment;
(7) Spatiotemporal morphological changes and the associated influences;
(8) Impacts of morphological changes on hydraulic structure and flood risk;
(8) Impacts of morphological changes on waterway maintenance;
(9) Variations in fluvial processes;
(10) Understanding grain size distribution changes and the associated morphological response;
(11) Natural and anthropogenic impacts on the morphological changes;
(12) River morphology and river ecosystem restoration;
(13) Riverbed incision, bank erosion, and coastal erosion;
(14) Improving the accuracy of riverbed evolution prediction;
(15) Quantifying hydro-morphological responses to the multi-objective optimal reservoir scheduling. 

Dr. Junhong Zhang
Dr. Lingling Zhu
Dr. Yunping Yang
Dr. Dangwei Wang
Guest Editors

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