Hydraulic characteristics of open-channel flow with partially-placed double layer rigid vegetation

X Tang, H Rahimi, Y Guan, Y Wang - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - Springer
Vegetation in watercourses can influence different aspects of flow structure, subsequently
affecting many processes of flow, such as pollutant transportation, sediment deposition and …

Modeling the transport and mixing of suspended sediment in ecological flows with submerged vegetation: A random displacement model-based analysis

J Zhang, P Wang, Z Li, P Li, G Xu, K Yu, W Wang… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aquatic vegetation in rivers influences the flow structure, impacting the sediment transport in
the river and further changing the ecosystem and geomorphologic evolution of the river. In …

Experimental and numerical study on impact of double layer vegetation in open channel flows

HR Rahimi, X Tang, P Singh - Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
This paper studies the effects of different types and configurations of double layer vegetation
on the flow of open channels. The vegetation is simulated through cylindrical dowels with a …

Parameterization of the modeling variables in velocity analytical solutions of open-channel flows with double-layered vegetation

P Singh, HR Rahimi, X Tang - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a descriptive analysis of the double layer vegetation flow and the
application of different empirical models for velocity distribution in vegetation flow. To …

Investigation of the flow structures through heterogeneous vegetation of varying patch configurations in an open channel

N Anjum, M Ali - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - Springer
The hydrodynamics of flow passing through heterogeneous vegetation configurations is
always complex and it becomes difficult to capture the flow structures through experimental …

Analytical modeling of mean velocity profile through two-layered fully submerged vegetation

X Tang, H Rahimi, P Singh, S Yuan… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
The mean velocity distribution of open channel flows with fully submerged two-layered
vegetation can be divided into three zones. Zone 1 represents the lower region of short …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating two-layer models for velocity profiles in open-channels with submerged vegetation

X Tang - Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2019 - scirp.org
For submerged vegetated flow, the velocity profile has two distinctive distributions in the
vegetation layer in the lower region and the surface layer in the upper non-vegetated region …

Open channel flow within and above a layered vegetation: Experiments and first-order closure modeling

HR Rahimi, X Tang, P Singh, M Li… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Flow within vegetation characterized by non-uniform roughness density is drawing
significant research attention given its relevance to a plethora of applications in eco …

Longitudinal Mixing in Flows with Submerged Rigid Aquatic Canopies

MG Nipuni Odara, J Pearson - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The presence of dense submerged vegetation alters mixing characteristics in open channel
flows as they cause differential velocities inside and above canopies. The prediction models …

Flow through layered vegetation in open channel flows: effect on velocity and discharge distribution

X Tang, PK Singh, Y Guan, M Li - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - Springer
In natural river systems, layered vegetation like grass, shrubs, and tall bushes greatly affects
the biodiversity, morphological process, and distribution of nutrients and pollutants …