Volker Weitbrecht

Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau(VAW)

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Technical Committees

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Committee on Fluid Mechanics
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Ecohydraulics
Committee on Industrial Flows and Energy Exchange
Committee on Education and Professional Development

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
JAWER Editorial Board	Editorial Board member	2017-01-01	Now

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Effect of Discharge Variations and Sediment Supply on the Stability of Artificial Step-Pool Sequences	2022
Field Test on Large Wood Accumulation at a Bridge Pier	2022
Managing Wood and Bedload Transport in Rivers with Inclined Rack Structures	2022
Natural and Artificial Refugia in Dynamic River Widenings	2022
Quantification of Large Wood (LW) Impact Forces at Field-Scale Using Smartwood	2022
Airborne Feature Matching Velocimetry for surface flow measurements in rivers	2021
Laboratory study on wood accumulation probability at bridge piers	2020
Influence of Block Arrangement on Stability of Man-Made Step-Pool Sequences in Steep Mountain Streams	2019
Feature Tracking Velocimetry Applied to Airborne Measurement Data from Murg Creek	2018
Hazards Due to Large Wood Accumulations: Local Scour and Backwater Rise	2018
Morphological Development of River Widenings with Variable Sediment Supply	2018
Through-water terrestrial laser scanning in hydraulic scale models: proof of concept	2018
Closure to “Experimental study on the flow characteristics of unstructured block ramps” by SIMONA TAMAGNI, VOLKER WEITBRECHT and ROBERT M. BOES, J. Hydraulic Res. 52(5), 2014, 600–613	2016
A low-cost airborne velocimetry system: proof of concept	2015
Backwater Rise Due to Driftwood Accumulations	2015
Physical Experiments to Determine the Stability of Step-Pool Systems in Mountain Torrents	2015
The Role of Bank Erosion in Restoration Works in Gravel-Bed Rivers	2015
Experimental study on the flow characteristics of unstructured block ramps	2014
Bypass Driftwood Retention River Sihl	2013
CFD Modeling of Turbulent Jet Mixing in a Water Storage Tank	2007
Numerical Simulations to Predict the Hydrodynamics and the Related Mixing Processes in Water Storage Tanks	2007
Shallow Flow Visualization and Coherent Structures Around a Single Groyne	2007
Experiments on Stratified Exchange Flows Past a Submerged Sill	2005

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