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This results in a marked bed discordance between the tributary and main channel which induces key differences in the hydromorphodynamics of the confluence when compared to concordant bed and some common types of discordant bed confluences. The processes of initiation and maintenance of the morphology of confluences are still unknown, and research linking morphodynamics and hydrodynamics of river confluences is required to understand these phenomena. In this paper, eddy\u2010resolving simulations based on laboratory experiments made in a live\u2010bed model of a mountain\u2010river confluence are used to provide a detailed description of flow hydrodynamics and implications for morphodynamics. The test case study corresponds to a confluence with an angle of 70\u00b0. Numerical simulations are performed for two extreme bathymetric conditions: those at the start of the experiment and when equilibrium morphological conditions are reached. 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