Sediment Bed Borehole Advection Method

Advection-diffusion sediment models in a two-phase flow perspective

Sediment profiles in open channels are usually predicted by advection-diffusion models. Most basic forms consider the terminal settling velocity of a single particle in still clear water. Alternative forms account for hindered settling at higher concentrations. It is not known, however, how these modifications relate to mass and momentum conservation of each phase. For dilute flow, it is known ...

The combined Lagrangian advection method

We present and test a new hybrid numerical method for simulating layerwise-twodimensional geophysical flows. The method radically extends the original ContourAdvective Semi-Lagrangian (CASL) algorithm (Dritschel & Ambaum, 1997) by combining three computational elements for the advection of general tracers (e.g. potential vorticity, water vapor, etc.): (1) a pseudo-spectral method for large scal...

Sediment Transport Primer Estimating Bed-Material Transport in Gravel-bed Rivers

This primer accompanies the release of BAGS, software developed to calculate sediment transport rate in gravel-bed rivers. BAGS and other programs facilitate calculation and can reduce some errors, but cannot ensure that calculations are accurate or relevant. This primer was written to help the software user define relevant and tractable problems, select appropriate input, and interpret and app...

Fine Sediment Infiltration Dynamics in a Gravel-bed River following a Sediment Pulse

Pulses of fine sediment in gravel-bedded rivers can cause extensive fine sediment infiltration (FSI) into void spaces in coarse bed material, potentially altering river morphodynamics and aquatic ecosystems. Previous work suggests a conceptual model of FSI whereby FSI occurs to a limited depth as a function of the relative grain size of bed sediment compared with infiltrating sediment and is in...

The Intrusion of Fine Suspended Sediment into a Sandy Sediment Bed a Literature Review