Sediment Transport

Zhou Liu

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    Abstract

    Flow and sediment transport are important in relation to several engineering topics, e.g. erosion around structures, backfilling of dredged channels and nearshore morphological change. The purpose of the present book is to describe both the basic hydrodynamics and the basic sediment transport mechanics.
    Chapter 1 deals with fundamentals in fluid mechanics with emphasis on bed shear stress by currents, while chapter 3 discusses wave boundary layer theory. They are both written with a view to sediment transport. Sediment transport in rivers, cross-shore and longshore are dealt with in chapters 2, 4 and 5, respectively.
    It is not the intention of the book to give a broad review of the literature on this very wide topic. The book tries to pick up information which is of engineering importance. An obstacle to the study of sedimentation is the scale effect in model tests. Whenever small-scale tests, large-scale tests and field investigations are available, it is always the result from field investigations which is referred to.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationAalborg
    PublisherAalborg Universitet
    Edition2. udgave
    Number of pages74
    Publication statusPublished - Jan 1999

    Bibliographical note

    PDF for print: 75 pp.
    PDF separated in part 1 ( pp. 1-39) and part 2 (pp. 40-74)

    Keywords

    • Sediment Transport
    • Erosion around Structures
    • Backfilling of Dredged Channels
    • Nearshore Morphological Change

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