Modelling of sedimentation processes inside Roseires Reservoir (Sudan)

Roseires Reservoir, located on the Blue Nile River in Sudan, is the first trap to the sediments coming from the vast upper river catchment in Ethiopia, which suffers from high erosion and desertification problems. The reservoir has already lost more than one-third of its storage capacity due to sedimentation in the last four decades. Appropriate...

The Impact of Soil Erosion in the Upper Blue Nile on Downstream Reservoir Sedimentation

Population growth in the Blue Nile Basin has led to fast land-use changes from forest to agricultural land, which resulted in speeding up the soil erosion processes producing highly negative impacts on the local soil fertility and agricultural productivity. The eroded sediment is transported downstream by water and sinks in the lower basin where...

Modelling of sedimentation processes inside Roseires Reservoir (Sudan) (discussion)

Discussion paper. Roseires Reservoir, located on the Blue Nile River, in Sudan, is the first trap to the sediments coming from the upper catchment in Ethiopia, which suffers from high erosion and desertification problems. The reservoir lost already more than one third of its 5 storage capacity due to sedimentation in the last four decades....

Flow resistance of vegetated oblique weir-like obstacles during high water stages

At high water stages, obstacles (submerged and particularly emerged vegetation) in the flood plains of a river contribute to the flow resistance and hamper the conveyance capacity. In particular the elevated vegetated parts are expected to play an important role. The objective of this research work is to determine the form drag due to vegetated...

Flow over Weir-like Obstacles

Modelling of sedimentation processes inside Roseires Reservoir (Sudan) (abstract)

Roseires Reservoir is located on the Blue Nile River, in Sudan (figure 1). It is the first trap to the sediments coming from the upper catchment in Ethiopia, which suffers from high erosion and desertification problems. The reservoir lost already more than one third of its storage capacity due to sedimentation in the last four decades. This is a...

Flow resistance of vegetated oblique weir-like obstacles during high water stages

At high water stages obstacles in the flood plains of a river contribute to the flow resistance and hamper the conveyance capacity. In particular the elevated vegetated parts are expected to play an important role. The objective of this research work is to determine the form drag due to vegetated oblique weir-like obstacles. The experiments have...

Quantification of water uses along the Blue Nile River network using a one dimension (1D) hydrodynamic model

In the Nile River Basin, upstream runoff variability is an acute issue to downstream countries, since these countries are almost entirely dependent on Nile waters. Cooperative management of the Nile waters has become urgent, considering climate variations (Conway, 2005; Yates & Strzepek, 1998 a) and the necessity to use the water resource for...

Flow resistance of vegetated oblique weir-like obstacles during high water stages

At high water stages obstacles in the floodplains of a river contribute to the flow resistance. In particular the elevated vegetated parts are expected to play an important role. The objective of this study is to estimate and parameterize the form drag due to vegetated oblique weir-like obstacles. An experimental study has been carried out in...

Numerical and physical modelling of rapidly varying flow over weir-like obstacles in rivers and floodplains

The form drag due to vegetated weir-like obstacles interpreted as expansion losses

The Objective of this study is to estimate the form drag due to vegetated weir- like obstacles. Head loss due to submerged vegetated dikes and groins has been modeled by expansion loss form drag model (Energy and momentum balance principles) and it has been compared with experimental data. An experimental study has been carried out on a scaled...