Navigable rivers are considered one of the most important elements in the Netherlands' transport chain, including its logistic infrastructures, which must be continually improved. However, the impacts of such improvements to the ecological system should be carefully considered as well. Although inland transportation is regarded as more environmentally friendly than many modes of transportation, improving it requires addressing many challenges. One is improving navigation at bends, and that is because of the presence of point bars, which reduce the available navigational channel size. The navigation channel, therefore, does not always have enough width and depth. The main objective of this research is to explore a technique for bend stabilization. This stabilization improves the river's navigability by pushing sediment towards the inner side of a bend, thus avoiding sediment deposition in the navigable channel. Although several methods, such as dredging and groynes, can accomplish this objective, they are costly and environmentally harmful. Several studies recently recommended using submerged wooden vanes to fulfil the Water Framework Directive (WFD) requirements to improve rivers' ecological functioning. These wooden vanes alter both the sediment transport and the flow direction by generating a secondary current, causing erosion in the direction of the outer bend and sedimentation near the inner bend as well as close to the vanes. This should lead to higher depth in the navigation channel. Bottom vanes have already proved efficient in diverting flow and sediment particles in many other applications, such as water inlets. However, there is no detailed research about how the secondary current generated by the combination of centrifugal force and pressure at river bends interacts with the vanes. This study focuses on setting a numerical model that is appropriate to capture local changes in hydrodynamics and morphodynamics caused by vanes. A Dutch case study is used as a reference: the Lek River bend at Redichem at ...