We invite abstracts that present new experimental, field-based, analytical, and numerical research, technical innovations, and interesting case studies in the following and related subject areas. 

Interested researchers are encouraged to contact the conference organizers to propose special sessions on topics related to environmental hydraulics not covered by the focus areas below. 

Symposium Themes and Focus Areas

Fluvial and open channel hydraulics

  • Fundamentals of flow over rough-bed surfaces including boundary layers developing over large-scale roughness elements or over multiple-scale roughness, hyporheic flow effects   

  • Flow in porous media; interaction of free surface flow with groundwater flow      

  • Sediment transport and morphodynamics in rivers, estuaries and coastal environments

  • Hyper-concentrated flows, mud flows and granular flows and their effect on the environment

  • Reservoir sedimentation

Coastal and estuarine hydraulics

  • Pollutant/contaminant transport and fate in fluvial and marine environments

  • Renewable energy hydraulics in coastal regions (e.g., hydraulics of offshore wind turbines, local scour around the piles)

Environmental hydraulics

  • Restoration of ecological habitats

  • Modeling tools for river habitat management 

  • Eco-hydraulics

  • Fish passage and design of hydraulic structures for environmental/ecological purposes 

  • Flow-vegetation interactions

  • Flow-biota interactions

  • Theoretical modeling in environmental hydraulics

  • Artificial intelligence in environmental hydraulics 

Urban hydraulics

Dispersion and mixing in natural water bodies with and without stratification effects

Jets, plumes, mixing layers

  • Turbulent jet flows    

  • Turbulent wakes 

  • Turbulent mixing layers

  • Effects of flow shallowness and stratification

Gravity currents and their interactions with the environment (e.g., vegetation, dams, bedforms)

Extreme events and associated environmental hazards
  • Flood risk and flood mitigation

Instrumentation, experiments, modeling

  • Remote sensing in environmental hydraulics

  • Innovative laboratory and field measuring techniques including techniques for studying particle laden and hyper-concentrated flows, and near-bed phenomena

  • Novel numerical approaches in environmental hydraulics