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Facilities: Kinoshita Flume

Meandering rivers evolve and interact with floodplains constantly. They migrate laterally and downstream by modifying their banks either by fluvial erosion, collapse of the banks or by their combination. During the evolution of meandering rivers, several morphodynamic and hydrodynamic conditions are presented (Abad and Garcia, 2005). The detailed study of several of these stages is necessary to understand how rivers migrate. In the past, several experimental studies were performed in symmetric low-sinuosity channels, and few studies were performed by considering high-amplitude and high-curvature meandering channels. The Kinoshita channel allows to study the hydrodynamic and morphodynamics for the case of high-amplitude, periodic and asymmetric planform configuration. Its high-sinuosity would allow to understand morphodynamic conditions prior to cutoff. The facility was design to recirculate water and sediment in both directions.


Kinoshita flume.