Publications de Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Simulation of fine sediment deposition on floodplains

Giovanni De Cesare, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Rivers extend beyond the channels that are typically associated with this word. Of particular interest are flood plains, where important hydro- and morphodynamic processes occur as a result of recurrent flooding. Ecologically, they also support the establi ...

2023

How Large Immobile Sediments in Gravel Bed Rivers Impact Sediment Transport and Bed Morphology

Carmelo Juez Jiménez

A common approach used to mitigate riverbank erosion and maintain watercourse alignments has been through the application of riprap or larger, more stable particles to channel boundaries along reaches of interest. However, very often, these large particles ...

2021

The impact of hydrograph variability and frequency on sediment transport dynamics in a gravel-bed flume

Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

A laboratory study was undertaken to investigate how changes in flow regime and hydrograph shape (number of cycled hydrographs and duration of each hydrograph) together impact bedload transport and resulting bed morphology. Three hydrologic conditions (exp ...

WILEY2020

Floodplain Land Cover and Flow Hydrodynamic Control of Overbank Sedimentation in Compound Channel Flows

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Hannes Jenny

Overbank sedimentation is predominantly due to fine sediments transported under suspension that become trapped and settle in floodplains when high-flow conditions occur in rivers. In a compound channel, the processes of exchanging water and fine sediments ...

2019

Image processing and laser measurements for determination of the erosion and deposition of fine sediments by a gravity current

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Jessica Zordan, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

This paper reports a high-resolution, non-intrusive, low-cost technique to measure volumes of erosion and deposition of fine sediments. The combination of two techniques, photography and laser scanning, gives the advantage of simultaneous quantitative esti ...

2018

Feinsedimentdynamik in revitalisierten Flüssen

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Matthias Thalmann

Im Rahmen von Flussrevitalisierungen werden oftmals seitliche Aufweitungen geschaffen, in denen sich Feinsedimente ablagern können. Insbesondere in Flüssen, die von Schwall und Sunk betroffen sind, stellt sich die Frage, wie der Ablagerungsprozess von Fein ...

2018

Influence of lateral embayments on suspended sediment transport under unsteady flow conditions

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Matthias Thalmann

Local widening in a channelized river is a common practice in restoration projects. The lateral embayments built for this purpose in the river banks are partially filled up by fine sediments. This allows the formation of aquatic habitats with hydraulic and ...

2018

Morphological resilience to flow fluctuations of fine sediment deposits in bank lateral cavities

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Matthias Thalmann

Lateral cavities are built in the banks of rivers for several purposes: to create harbors, to capture sed- iment, to keep a central navigable channel (i.e., Casiers de Girardon in the Rhone river) or to promote the formation of aquatic habitats if a limite ...

2018

Entrainment, transport and deposition of sediment by saline gravity currents

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Jessica Zordan, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Few studies have addressed simultaneously the feedback between the hydrodynamics of a gravity cur- rent and the geomorphological changes of a mobile bed. Hydrodynamic quantities such as turbulent and mean velocities, bed shear stress and turbulent stresses ...

2018

Transport of suspended sediments under the influence of bank macro-roughness

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

River restoration works often include measures to promote morphological diversity and enhance habitat suitability. One of these measures is the creation of macro-roughness elements, such as lateral cavities and embayments, in the banks of channelized river ...

2018

Environmental heterogeneity promotes spatial resilience of phototrophic biofilms in streambeds

Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Tom Ian Battin, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Hannes Markus Peter

The loss of environmental heterogeneity threatens biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. It is therefore important to understand the relationship between environmental heterogeneity and spatial resilience as the capacity of ecological communities embedded ...

2018

Large Eddy Simulations of sediment entrainment induced by a lock-exchange gravity current

Alessandro Leonardi, Jessica Zordan, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Foteini Kyrousi

Large Eddy simulations of lock-exchange gravity currents propagating over a mobile reach are presented. The numerical setting allows to investigate the sediment pick up induced by the currents and to study the underlying mechanisms leading to sediment entr ...

2018

The origin of fine sediment determines the observations of suspended sediment fluxes under unsteady flow conditions

Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Field observations in a wide range of environments have shown that sediment availability is a major control on the suspended sediment observations in streams. Here we examine, via laboratory experiments, how the amount of proximal in-channel fine sediment ...

American Geophysical Union2018

Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Bed-Load Transport of a Finite-Depth Sediment Layer: Applications to Channel Flushing

Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Numerical modeling of bed-load transport in shallow flows, particularly oriented toward environmental flows, is an active field of research. Nevertheless, other possible applications exist. In particular, bed-load transport phenomena are relevant in urban ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2017

INFLUENCE OF LATERAL RECTANGULAR EMBAYMENTS ON THE TRANSPORT OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS IN A FLUME

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Systematic experimental investigations have been performed under uniform flow conditions in a channel whose banks are equipped with large scale rectangular roughness elements. The practical motivation of this project is to see how restoration of banks, suc ...

2017

LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS OF PULSED SUBAQEOUS SEDIMENT DENSITY FLOWS: INTERNAL STRATIFICATION AND LAYERING

Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Mariangela Sfouni-Grigoriadou

This paper reports on an experimental study which focuses on reproducing small scale sediment density flows in a laboratory flume. The observations are aimed at improving the parametrization of the relations that govern the transition between different pha ...

2017

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENT BY LOCK-EXCHANGE GRAVITY CURRENTS

Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Alessandro Leonardi, Jessica Zordan, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Foteini Kyrousi

Gravity currents are flows driven by buoyancy differences between two contacting fluids caused by differences in temperature, salinity, or by the presence of suspended particles. Such flows can reach high velocities near the bed, especially on the area beh ...

2017

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENT BY GRAVITY CURRENTS

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Jessica Zordan, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Gravity currents are geophysical flows responsible of the distal transport of high volumes of sediments. In particular, turbidity currents, a form of gravity currents where sediments in suspension confer the buoyancy that ignites the flow, are the main mec ...

2017

Modeling sediment pulses on an armored channel

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Elena Battisacco, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Dams trap sediments in the upstream reservoir, thus the continuity in sediment transport along the river is interrupted. Several negative aspects related to the lack of sediment supply were observed downstream many dams and the artificial replenishment of ...

2016

Reservoir sedimentation

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez

Artificial water storage, originated by the construction of dams, is essential for the sustainable health and welfare of civilizations since it supplies water for human consumption, irrigation and energy production. Furthermore, dam reservoirs are used for ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016