NOWADAYS PROBLEMS OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODELING IN THE COASTAL ZONE

Wave Induced Mine Burial and Sediment Transport in Coastal Environment: Wave and Sediment Transport Modeling Studies

The long-term goal of this work is to develop numerical simulation techniques for predicting waveinduced sediment transport and bed evolution in the coastal zone (order 10 meter depth outside the surf zone), at horizontal scales of tens of meters or less, and the scouring/burial around objects/obstacles (mine-like), partially buried in the bottom. This research was initially motivated by the Na...

Swash zone sediment transport

Preface This thesis is the result of a study, investigating the swash zone sediment transport processes. The first part of the thesis work has taken place on the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. The second part took place in Delft at WL Delft Hydraulics and was funded by the Delft Cluster Project Coasts (03.01.03). My special gratitude goes to Stefan Aarninkhof for his daily as...

Quasi-3D Modeling of Sediment Transport for Coastal Morphodynamics

Sediment Transport Modelling for Coastal Morphodynamics

The accurate prediction of sand transport rates in the coastal zone depends not only upon the choice of sediment transport model but also, rather critically, upon the formulation used to predict the bed roughness (ks). Sand transport rates are modelled here using both a One-equation, turbulence-closure, TKE-model and also Bijker’s sand transport model. Following some remarks about the nature an...

Limitation of the transport capacity approach in sediment transport modeling

[1] In a recent paper by Polyakov and Nearing (2003) it was shown experimentally that the sediment transport capacity in a rill is not unique for a given soil type, slope, and flow rate. Indeed, they found that the transport capacity was dependent on whether sediment transport in the rill was occurring under net erosion or net deposition conditions. They concluded that this nonuniqueness in tra...