Dr. Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak

Electricité de France, Division R&D

Expert Researcher, LNHE

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About

Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak is a researcher at the Division of Research and Development of Électricité de France. He joined IAHR in January 2015. Mr El Kadi has been chair of the IAHR working group on Reservoir Sedimentation since August 2019 and is a member of the IAHR technical committees on Fluvial Hydraulics, Experimental Methods and Instrumentation, Flood Risk Management, and Fluid Mechanics. He has also served as an associate editor of the IAHR Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research (JAWER) since April 2020.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Companies and Enterprises

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Sediment Transport Fluvial Geomorphology Fluid Dynamics Open Channel Hydraulics Computational Fluid Dynamics Experimental Modeling Flood Modelling

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Flood Risk Management
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Committee on Fluid Mechanics
Committee on Hydraulic Structures
Working Group on Reservoir Sedimentation

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Africa Division	Member	2024-06-11	Now
Committee on Flood Risk Management	Co-opted	2022-07-27	Now
NewsFlash Europe Editorial Board	Editor	2020-11-01	Now
JAWER Editorial Board	Associate Editors	2020-04-01	Now
Working Group on Reservoir Sedimentation	Chair	2019-08-27	Now
Europe Division	Member	2016-07-29	2022-09-06

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Free-Surface Profile Upstream of a Grid Clogged by Aquatic Plants	2023
Integrated flood risk management as a tool to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals	2023
Two-Dimensional Numerical Modelling of Floods Due to Levee Breaching	2023
A New Methodology for the Assessment of Flood Hazard in Urban Areas Due to Levee Breaches	2022
Laboratory Design of Representative Real Shallow Basins for Validation of Numerical Models	2022
Overtopping-Induced Failure of Non–Cohesive Homogeneous Fluvial Dikes: Effect of Dike Geometry on Breach Discharge and Widening	2022
Uncertainty Analysis of a Lumped Physically Based Numerical Model of Dam Breaching	2022
An adoption of the Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model for two- and three-dimensional free surface environmental flows	2021
Apparent cohesion effects on overtopping-induced fluvial dike breaching	2021
Dike Failure Caused by Flow Overtopping: A Comparison of Two Modelling Methods	2019
Fluvial Dike Breaching Induced by Overtopping: Lessons from Experimental and Numerical Studies	2019
Full Issue of Hydrolink 2019-2 Reservoir Sedimentation Part III	2019
Full Issue of Hydrolink 2018-3 Reservoir Sedimentation	2018
Full Issue of Hydrolink 2018-4 Reservoir Sedimentation Part II	2018
Limiting the Development of Riparian Vegetation in the Isere River: A Physical Modelling Study	2018
Numerical Study on Reservoir Sediment Management Through Adding Excavated Sediment Downstream of Dams in Japan	2018
Uncertainty Quantification in 2D Morphodynamic Model. Application to the Gironde Estuary	2018
Incipient Motion of a Bimodal Mixture of Gravel and Silt: A Laboratory Experimental Study	2015
Applicability of Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficient Formulas in 1-D Numerical Modeling of Solute Transport in Open Channels	2012
Division of critical flow at three-branch open-channel intersection	2011
Estimation of the boundary shear stress distribution in open channel using flownet	2008
Use of a 1-D Sediment Transport Model to Simulate Evolution of River Bed	2007

My Videos

Title	Year
[Day2] Closing of Day2 of the IAHR Africa Scholars Meeting	2024
[Day2] Opening of Day2 of IAHR Africa Scholars Meeting	2024

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date