In a variety of environmental settings, including vegetated channel banks and rivers, and their associated floodplains and riparian areas, vegetation occurs along river margins, partially obstructing the cross-section. In these systems, referred to as partly vegetated channels, the long regions of finite width of emergent vegetation laterally interact with the flow, deeply altering the mean and turbulent flow structure with implications on the conveyance capacity of the channel, the water levels, and the mass and momentum exchange processes (