Reservoir Sedimentation

Anton J. Schleiss, Giovanni de Cesare, Mario J. Franca, Michael Pfister, Laboratoire de Constructions Hydrauliques (LCH), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

• Preface; Reservoir sedimentation; Sustainable water supply, climate change and reservoir sedimentation management: Technical and economic viability; Three-dimensional numerical modeling of flow field in rectangular shallow reservoirs; Meandering jets in shallow rectangular reservoir; Combination of 2D shallow water and full 3D numerical modeling for sediment transport in reservoirs and basins; Photometric analysis of the effect of substrates and obstacles on unconfined turbidity current flow propagation; Advances in numerical modeling of reservoir sedimentation; Innovative in-situ measurements, analysis and modeling of sediment dynamics in Chambon reservoir, France; Measurements of spatial distribution of suspended sediment concentrations in a hydropower reservoir; Case studies of reservoir sedimentation as a consequence of soil erosion; The impact of flow transformations and reservoir floor topography on reservoir deposition patterns in high energy environments; Reservoir sedimentation and erosion processes in a snow-influenced basin in Southern Spain; Suspended sediment dynamics of Ribarroja Reservoir (Ebro River, Spain); The use of Flow Assisted Sediment Transport (FAST) to remove sediment from reservoirs in Southern California, USA; Two approaches to forecasting of sedimentation in the Stare Miasto reservoir, Poland; Influence of geometry shape factor on trapping and flushing efficiencies; Flushing of coarse and graded sediments—a case study using reduced scale model; 1D modelling of fine sediments dynamics in a dam reservoir during a flushing event; Numerical analysis of sediment transport processes during a flushing event of an Alpine reservoir; Modelling suspended sediment wave dynamics of reservoir flushing; Numerical modeling of suspended sediment transport during dam flushing: From reservoir dynamic to downstream propagation; St-Egrève reservoir—modelling of flushing and evolution of the channel bed; Sequential flushing of Verbois and Chancy-Pougny reservoirs (Geneva, Switzerland); Simulation of the flushing into the dam-reservoir Paute-Cardenillo; Comprehensive numerical simulations of sediment transport and flushing of a Peruvian reservoir; Sediment bypass tunnels to mitigate reservoir sedimentation and restore sediment continuity; Modeling long term alternatives for sustainable sediment management using operational sediment transport rules; Global analysis of the sedimentation volume on Portuguese reservoirs; Reservoir sedimentation management at Gebidem Dam (Switzerland)