Table of contents	6
	Preface	11
	Part 1: Hydraulic structures	14
	1. Air-water flow	15
	Air-water flows in water engineering and hydraulic structures. Basic processes and metrology	16
	De-aeration of a diversion tunnel of a large-scale hydroelectric scheme	35
	Free-surface aeration in dam break waves: an experimental study	47
	New model investigations on two-phase chute flow	58
	Evaluation of incipient-aeration point on spillways	70
	2. Intakes and outlets	81
	Air entrainment at Guri Dam intake operating at low heads	82
	3-D CFD modeling-investigation of potential vortex formation at the intakes of Caruachi Powerhouse	92
	Numerical unsteady flow model simulation during the sluice closure of Caruachi Dam	106
	Yacyretá Dam: spillways modification to reduce total dissolved gases concentrations downstream of the dam	117
	HYDROMATRIX®: a new way to generate hydropower	131
	3. Hydrodynamic forces	140
	Impulse waves from laboratory scale to mega-tsunamis	141
	Extreme wave transients in reservoirs, their characteristics and interaction with dams	162
	Dynamic pressure fluctuations at real-life plunge pool bottoms	171
	A new procedure to evaluate dynamic uplift of concrete linings or rock blocks in plunge pools	182
	Instantaneous pressure field on a submerged jump stilling basin	194
	Aspects of vibrations and fatigue of materials related to coherent structures of macroturbulent flows	202
	Scale effect on pressure fluctuations over sills in stilling basins	212
	Analysis of the air rubber dam using “ANSYS”	225
	4. Energy dissipators	234
	Plunge pool scour in prototype and laboratory	235
	Experimental investigations on high-velocity jet characteristics and its influence on plunge pool rock scour	246
	Effect of sill arrangement on maximum scour depth downstream of abruptly enlarged stilling basins	258
	Energy dissipation and hydrodynamic forces of aerated flow over macro-roughness linings for overtopped embankment dams	269
	Experimental study of energy loss at drops	280
	Dam safety: the use of guidance documents for the training of Inspecting Engineers	290
	5. Reservoir sedimentation	298
	Impacts of Sanmenxia Dam and management strategies	299
	New approach in determining useful life of reservoirs	320
	The use of a labyrinth weir in a reservoir flushing system	331
	Numerical and physical modelling concerning the removal of sediment deposits from reservoirs	341
	Application of fine sediment behavior to sedimentation management in Miwa Dam, Japan	355
	Management of reservoir sedimentation due to turbidity currents by technical measures	367
	6. Stepped spillways	378
	Energy dissipation along stepped spillways	379
	Velocity and pressure field in skimming flow in stepped spillways	388
	Stepped spillways for embankment dams. Review, progress and development in overflow hydraulics	397
	Part 2: River Structures	408
	7. Scouring and sedimentation around structures	409
	Recent views on the origin of river meandering and braiding	410
	Time-dependent local scour at piled bridge foundations	420
	Time evolution of scour at comparatively long abutments	429
	Local scour downstream of grade control structures	441
	Scouring profile at channel junction	451
	8. Numercial approaches in hydrodynamics ofriverflow	458
	An improved implicit solution for the two dimensional shallow water equations using unstructured grids	459
	A fully mesh-less Lagrangian numerical method for prediction of free water surface	474
	Numerical study of flood routing in compound channels	484
	A finite volume method for solving SWE in rivers of complex topographies	494
	Application of a Boussinesq-type equation to flow over trapezoidal profile weirs	504
	Hydrodynamics of three-dimensional density currents	515
	9. River response to hydraulic structures	523
	Experimental analysis on the hydraulic efficiency of mudflow breakers	524
	Sub-critical flow in open channel junction	535
	Boundary shear stress distribution in a V-shaped channel	547
	10. Hydroinformatic applications	560
	Cardiff Bay barrage and managing the impounded water quality	561
	River flow forecasting using artificial neural networks	576
	Evaluation of the application of neural networks on real-time river flood prediction	584
	Prediction of salinity intrusion in Arvand River	598
	Auhtor index	608
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