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Yasuyuki Shimizu

Yasuyuki Shimizu

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Earth Science

D-Index
32
Citations
4150
World Ranking
8649
National Ranking
267

Overview

Yasuyuki Shimizu is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan, focusing on research within environmental science. Their extensive work includes 47 publications primarily in this field, with significant contributions to subfields such as ecology, soil science, civil and structural engineering, global and planetary change, and earth-surface processes.

Their research topics concentrate on hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, flood risk assessment and management, geological formations and processes, hydraulic flow and structures, hydrology and watershed management studies, and landslides and related hazards.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shimizu include Takuya Inoue, Tamaki Sumner, Satomi Yamaguchi, Toshiki Iwasaki, and Tomoko Kyuka. A substantial portion of their work has been published in venues such as the Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B1 (Hydraulic Engineering), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Water, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Water Resources Research.

Key recent papers by Shimizu include:

  • Supplied Sediment Tracking for Bridge Collapse with Large-Scale Channel Migration, 2020, Water
  • Morphodynamic effects of vegetation life stage on experimental meandering channels, 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Complementing scale experiments of rivers and estuaries with numerically modelled hydrodynamics, 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Dominating factors influencing rapid meander shift and levee breaches caused by a record-breaking flood in the Otofuke River, Japan, 2020, Journal of Hydro-environment Research
  • Morphodynamic equilibrium of alternate bar dynamics under repeated hydrographs, 2023, Advances in Water Resources

Best Publications

  • A new framework for modeling the migration of meandering rivers

    G. Parker;Y. Shimizu;G. V. Wilkerson;E. C. Eke

  • Numerical Simulation of Relatively Wide, Shallow Channels with Erodible Banks

    Chang-Lae Jang;Yasuyuki Shimizu

  • Numerical simulation of river meandering with self‐evolving banks

    Kazutake Asahi;Yasuyuki Shimizu;Jonathan Nelson;Gary Parker

  • Numerical computation of sand dune migration with free surface flow

    Sanjay Giri;Yasuyuki Shimizu

  • Numerical modeling of erosional and depositional bank processes in migrating river bends with self‐formed width: Morphodynamics of bar push and bank pull

    Esther Eke;Gary Parker;Yasuyuki Shimizu

  • CALCULATION OF BED VARIATION IN ALLUVIAL CHANNELS

    Yasuyuki Shimizu;Tadaoki Itakura

  • Three-Dimensional Computation of Flow and Bed Deformation

    Yasuyuki Shimizu;Hajime Yamaguchi;Tadaoki Itakura

  • The international river interface cooperative: Public domain flow and morphodynamics software for education and applications

    Jonathan M. Nelson;Yasuyuki Shimizu;Takaaki Abe;Kazutake Asahi

  • Vegetation effects on the morphological behavior of alluvial channels

    C.-L. Jang;Y. Shimizu

  • Interaction among alluvial cover, bed roughness, and incision rate in purely bedrock and alluvial-bedrock channel

    Takuya Inoue;Norihiro Izumi;Yasuyuki Shimizu;Gary Parker

  • Numerical investigation of local scour at two adjacent cylinders

    Hyung Suk Kim;Mohamed Nabi;Ichiro Kimura;Yasuyuki Shimizu

  • Bed morphological changes around a finite patch of vegetation.

    Hyung Suk Kim;Ichiro Kimura;Yasuyuki Shimizu

  • Detailed simulation of morphodynamics: 3. Ripples and dunes

    Mohamed Nabi;H. J. de Vriend;E. Mosselman;C. J. Sloff

  • Numerical simulation of bar and bank erosion in a vegetated floodplain: A case study in the Otofuke River

    Toshiki Iwasaki;Yasuyuki Shimizu;Ichiro Kimura

  • Numerical simulation of dune–flat bed transition and stage‐discharge relationship with hysteresis effect

    Yasuyuki Shimizu;Sanjay Giri;Satomi Yamaguchi;Jonathan M. Nelson

  • Dynamic meandering in response to upstream perturbations and floodplain formation

    F. Schuurman;F. Schuurman;Y. Shimizu;T. Iwasaki;M. G. Kleinhans

  • Advances in computational morphodynamics using the International River Interface Cooperative (iRIC) software

    Yasuyuki Shimizu;Jonathan Nelson;Kattia Arnez Ferrel;Kazutake Asahi

  • Large-Scale Experiment and Numerical Modeling of a Riverine Levee Breach

    Takaharu Kakinuma;Yasuyuki Shimizu

  • Detailed simulation of morphodynamics: 2. Sediment pickup, transport, and deposition

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  • Coevolution of width and sinuosity in meandering rivers

    Esther C. Eke;M. J. Czapiga;E. Viparelli;Y. Shimizu

  • Laboratory measurement and numerical simulation of flow and turbulence in a meandering-like flume with spurs

    S. Giri;Y. Shimizu;B. Surajate

  • Numerical computation of free meandering channels with the application of slump blocks on the outer bends

    Krishna Prasad Dulal;Kensuke Kobayashi;Yasuyuki Shimizu;Gary Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Nelson
Jonathan M. Nelson United States Geological Survey
Gary Parker
Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yuichi Onda
Yuichi Onda University of Tsukuba
Maarten G. Kleinhans
Maarten G. Kleinhans Utrecht University
Yoshikazu Giga
Yoshikazu Giga University of Tokyo
Kim M. Cohen
Kim M. Cohen Utrecht University
J. Dungan Smith
J. Dungan Smith United States Geological Survey
Keigo Endo
Keigo Endo Gunma University
Jasim Imran
Jasim Imran University of South Carolina
William E. Dietrich
William E. Dietrich University of California, Berkeley

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