PhD Dissertation at the University of Basrah Examines the Use of River Groynes in River Training
A PhD dissertation at the College of Engineering, University of Basrah, investigated the use of river groynes in river training to control the bifurcation of a section of the Tigris River in Baghdad.
The dissertation, presented by student Sura Abdul-Hameed Rasheed, aimed to improve the hydromorphodynamic performance of a meandering and bifurcated section of the Tigris River in central Baghdad. The section suffers from unequal discharge distribution, transverse channel infilling, island development, and an unstable riverbed, in addition to sediment deposition near the intake of one of the drinking water projects.
The dissertation comprised five chapters, in which the researcher employed a two-dimensional numerical model using Delft3D-FM to simulate twenty different groyne configurations in terms of length, spacing, orientation, and head shape.
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