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Morphological relationships of meander evolution in terms of hydraulic and geometric characteristics are essential for river management. In present study, an experimental based study of meander evolution was employed to develop a prediction formula for identifying the pool-point bar location by using the dimensional analysis technique and multiple nonlinear regressions. Through the experimental work on a race of the non-uniform river sand, a set of experimental runs have been carried out through combining different hydraulic and geometric parameters to produce different empirical conditions that have a direct impact on the pool-point bar location. Based on the experimental observations and measurements, the variation in pool–point bar locations could be interpreted to that the hydraulic and morphologic properties through the meander evolution were varied during the time causes the variations in the patterns of the pool-point bar formations accordingly. The developed formula was verified by using another set of the experimental data and tested with three statistical indicators. The predicted results indicated that the proposed formula had high reliability for practical estimation of the pool-point bar location. This reliability was tested by the statistical indicators, where the less values have been resulted for bias and mean absolute error (MAE), 0.0004 and 0.0110 respectively, whereas the higher values 0.935 and 0.930 are achieved for the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) and the determination coefficient R2, respectively.

Bridges built across a river bend and supported by more than one pier has been experimentally studied regarding the shape and nature of erosion and deposition. For this purpose, a U-shaped laboratory channel was used with two oblong piers installed at different locations. The first one was at the mid-section of the upstream straight reach, whereas in the second site within the bend, the piers have been installed at sections of central angles 0°, 30°, 60°, 90°, 120°, 150°, 170°, and 180°, from the beginning to the end of the bend segment respectively. The studies were conducted under clear water and threshold flow conditions. The results show that the higher and lower values of local scour around the pier positioned close to the outer bank, are 1.803 and 0.623 times the pier width when the bridge was installed at an angle of 90° and 30° respectively. As for the pier close to the inner bank, the deepest local scour was 1.786 times of the pier width when the bridge was installed at 60° of the bend, while the least one was 0.516 times of the pier width when the bridge was located in the 180° sector. It is worth noting that the presence of piers within sector 150 is less affected by local scour than in the other sections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]