Experimental research on the effects of surface screens on a mobile bed

In 2000 the Dutch government chose a new point of view for the Dutch rivers: “Room for the River”. This viewpoint is the basis for a new approach of high water protection in the Netherlands. Instead of strengthening and raising the dikes, solutions must be based on space and spatial quality. One of the suggested measures is the addition of...

Stability of morphological cells to dredging-dumping activities

The Westerschelde estuary in the South-West of the Netherlands displays two meandering flood and ebb channels separated by shoals. The system of flood, ebb channel and shoal between two channel crossings form a morphological cell. The stability of the serial cell system formed by the Westerschelde is important for the navigation route to the...

Bodemsprongen Pannerdensche Kop en IJsselkop: De 1-dimensionale lokale bodemligging bij splitsingspunten van rivieren

Ter vergroting van de afvoercapaciteit zullen er in de toekomst door aanleg van nevengeulen langs het rivierengebied nieuwe splitsingspunten ontstaan. Het is daarom belangrijk voldoende voorspellende kennis te hebben van het morfologisch gedrag van deze splitsingspunten. In deze studie staat het l-dimensionale gedrag van de lokale bodemligging t...

Research on bifurcations in rivers

One of the unsolved problems in the water resource engineering is the morphological behaviour of bifurcations in rivers. Bifurcations can be found in deltas, in estuaries and in braided rivers. When modelling river reaches which contain a bifurcation, a nodal point relation is needed. The problem is to determine this nodal point relation. The...