Contains contributions prepared by world leaders in the field.
Includes chapters that cover numerous issues related to free surface flows and transport processes.
Presents case studies from rivers from all over the world

A study of large-scale horizontal turbulence in alluvial streams, with a view towards its morphological consequences.- Ice concerns for hydraulic engineering in cold, mountainous terrain.- Where "small is beautiful" - mathematical modelling and free surface flows.- Application of the AISA hyperspectral image for verification of sediment transport results obtained from CCHE2D hydrodynamic model - Zegrze Reservoir case study, Poland.- Natural and anthropogenic changes of the Vistula outlet to the sea.- Numerical analysis of steady gradually varied flow in open channel networks with hydraulic structures.- Lattice Boltzmann method for the numerical simulations of the melting and floating of ice.- Simulation of flow characteristics through emerged rigid vegetation over a perturbed bed.- Numerical study of sedimentation in uniformly vegetated wetlands.- An acoustic technique to measure the velocity of shallow turbulent flows remotely.- A CFD based comparison of mixing due to regular andrandom cylinder arrays.- Turbulence flow modeling of one-sharp-groyne field.- Sensitivity analysis for the water-air heat exchange term.- Time variation of scour at downstream pier for two piers in tandem arrangement.- Geometry description of local scouring process in various laboratory water structure models.