Complex Vegetated Flows in Riverine Open-Channel: Turbulence, Morphology, and Multi-Scale Particle Transport
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Erosion and Sediment Transport".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 145
Editors
Interests: hydrology; earth and environmental sciences; water resources; fluvial hydraulics; CFD; flood management; NATCAT; sediment/pollutant transport and river dynamics; vegetated flow; compound channel flow; turbulence measurement
Interests: civil engineering; hydrology; earth and environmental sciences; water resources; fluvial hydraulics; sediment/pollutant transport and river dynamics; vegetated flow; compound channel flow; turbulence measurement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue addresses the interplay between flow, vegetation structure, and multi-phase particles in open-channel systems. It includes all vegetation types—emergent, submerged, and floating—and examines how characteristics such as density, porosity, flexibility, and spatial arrangement influence turbulence, mixing, and mean flow. Contributions are invited from experimental, numerical, analytical, or combined approaches.
The focus is further extended to sediment and plastic transport across scales, from fine particles to macro plastics, including vertical and lateral movement, deposition, resuspension, and retention within vegetated regions. Attention is given to how hydrological conditions (e.g., depth, velocity, discharge) interact with vegetation to shape flow structures and particle pathways. This issue advances understanding for river management, restoration, and pollution mitigation.
Dr. Prateek Kumar Singh
Dr. João Nuno Fernandes
Dr. Xiaonan Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- open-channel vegetated flow
- turbulence and mixing
- sediment transport
- microplastic transport
- particle deposition and trapping
- eco-hydraulics
- vegetation density/porosity
- riverine multi-phase transport
- flow–vegetation–sediment interaction
- flow–vegetation–plastic interaction
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