A VIEW ON RIVER CHANNEL PROCESS AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, AS ONE OF CONVENTIONAL YET CURRENT SUBJECTS IN HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING

Abstract

The river channel process is one of conventional yet current subjects in hydraulic engineering, and sediment transport phenomena play important roles in the process. Studies on the process have been carried out from two standpoints, practical necessity of river training and intellectual curiosity or scientific interest in fluvial morphology, though the sediment transport had been investigated mainly from practical requests. As studies on river channel process have rather long history and wide variety of background, so background and development of the research in Japan are described briefly and some comments are given on current researches and near future studies.