Field measurements of flow fields and sediment transport above mobile bed forms

Spectral description of migrating bed forms and sediment transport

This paper considers the problem of spatiotemporal bed topography evolution and sediment transport estimation in rivers with migrating bed forms of different types and sizes, in statistical equilibrium conditions. Instead of resorting to bed form classification, we propose to evaluate the evolution of multiscale bed topography as the integral of unit contributions defined through a space-time F...

Sediment Transport in Unsteady Flow Conditions

Sediment transport under unsteady flow condition is studied experimentally. In the first step, sediment transport under different steady flow conditions was measured and an empirical equation was derived for its calculation. In the next step, two continuous and three stepwise hydrographs were generated in the flume, and their sediment transport rate was measured. The continuous hydrographs were...

Sediment Transport Measurements

s and Program, Geological Society of America, Denver,Colo., 28(7,) A-261.Turcios, L. M., and Gray, J. R. (2001). „U.S. Geological Surveysediment and ancillary data on the World Wide Web.‰ Proceedings of the 7th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Subcommittee on Sedimentation, Reno, Nev.,Poster 31-36.Turcios, L. M., Gray, J. R., and Ledford, A. L. (2000). „...

Upper-regime parallel lamination as the result of turbulent sediment transport and low-amplitude bed forms

A series of laboratory experiments has been carried out in which parallel-laminated deposits were produced from an upper-regime plane bed. The laminae had thicknesses of a few mm and could be traced continuously over distances up to the length and width of the depositional area (0.3m by 1.5m). Fluctuations in bed elevation were measured both during deposition and at equilibrium; much of the bed...

Bed-load Transport of Mixed-size Sediment: Fractional Transport Rates, Bed Forms, and the Development of a Coarse Bed-surface Layer