About

Dr. Alexander N. Sukhodolov is an associate editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Research, and a senior scientist of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany. He has over thirty years of experience in field studies in river hydrodynamics, transport processes, and flow biota interactions. he participated and organized more than fifty field measurement studies and expeditions in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Germany, Italy, and the USA. These studies were focussed on river turbulence, hydrodynamics of recirculation flows and confluences, flow structure in meander bends, effects of bedforms, longitudinal dispersion and implications of hydrodynamics for benthic invertebrates, fish, and aquatic vegetation. During the last decade he has been developing an original field-scale experimental approach in which high resolution flow measurements are combined with in-situ control of flow variables. Presently he is a coordinator of IGB research platform on the Tagliamento river.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Research Institutes and Centers

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Environmental fluid mechanics with the focus on fluvial systems (river-flow and estuarine hydrodynamics, aerodynamics of river valleys). River turbulence (field and laboratory experiments). Theoretical, experimental, and numerical research on shallow flows (confluences, lateral shear layers, vegetated shear layers, wakes behind exposed bars and vegetated patches). Field experiments on transport processes (longitudinal dispersion, turbulent diffusion and effects of vegetation). Theoretical and experimental studies in ecohydraulics (phytoplankton, flow effects on fish and invertebrates). Research on morphodynamics processes (flow in meander bends, bed-forms dynamics, and sedimentation in recirculating flows).

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