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Turbulence in Rivers

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Rivers – Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes

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The study of turbulence has always been a challenge for scientists working on geophysical flows. Turbulent flows are common in nature and have an important role in geophysical disciplines such as river morphology, landscape modeling, atmospheric dynamics and ocean currents. At present, new measurement and observation techniques suitable for fieldwork can be combined with laboratory and theoretical work to advance the understanding of river processes. Nevertheless, despite more than a century of attempts to correctly formalize turbulent flows, much still remains to be done by researchers and engineers working in hydraulics and fluid mechanics. In this contribution we introduce a general framework for the analysis of river turbulence. We revisit some findings and theoretical frameworks and provide a critical analysis of where the study of turbulence is important and how to include detailed information of this in the analysis of fluvial processes. We also provide a perspective of some general aspects that are essential for researchers/practitioners addressing the subject for the first time. Furthermore, we show some results of interest to scientists and engineers working on river flows.

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Mário J. Franca acknowledges the financial support by the European Fund for Economic and Regional Development (FEDER) through the Program Operational Factors of Competitiveness (COMPETE) and National Funds through the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (RECI/ECM-HID/0371/2012 and PTDC/ECM/099752/2008). Maurizio Brocchini acknowledges the financial support from the EsCoSed Project, which is financed by the US-ONR through the NICOP Research Grant (N62909-13-1-N020). The PhD students Elena Battisacco, Reyhaneh S. Ghazanfari, Sebastián Guillén-Ludeña, Sebastian Schwindt and Jessica Zordan are acknowledged for their final check of possible inconsistencies in the text. The present work was completed while Maurizio Brocchini was Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire d'Hydraulique Environnementale,  ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE.

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Franca, M.J., Brocchini, M. (2015). Turbulence in Rivers. In: Rowiński, P., Radecki-Pawlik, A. (eds) Rivers – Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17719-9_2

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