Simona Francalanci

TL;DR: In this article, the role of vegetation growth and riverbed evolution is characterized by complex nonlinear feedbacks, which hinder direct estimates of the role and importance of key elements on the morphological evolutionary trajectories of gravel bed rivers.

TL;DR: In this article, a bank model and hydrodynamic forcing in the flume were used to simulate the conditions observed in the field in Venice Lagoon, where the bank instability was related to the formation of tension cracks at the bank top and to impulsive effects associated with wave energy dissipation.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D numerical model was used to generate a detailed description of the flow and bedload transport fields in gravel-bed rivers and to quantify the reach-averaged hydraulic resistance and sediment transport regime that prevails when self-formed alternate river bars are present.

TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental results of a study conducted on a drainage channel colonized by Phragmites australis in undisturbed natural conditions were examined with different discharges under three different scenarios of channel vegetation, which were obtained by means of machineries traditionally used in land reclamation areas.