Special Issue on Sediment Transport Mechanisms in Coastal Environments and Rivers

Sediment Transport Dynamics in Ports, Estuaries and Other Coastal Environments

23 Sediment Transport and Deposition in Mountain Rivers

In many ways, sediment transport dynamics in mountain environments differ from those of the lowlands. The high relief and the steep slopes are an obvious feature of mountain areas. The cold climate is another factor controlling runoff and erosional processes, and the distribution of vegetation is also controlled by the prevailing climate. Above the tree line, processes of erosion are more inten...

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...

Uncertainties in Evaluation of the Sediment Transport Rates in Typical Coarse-Bed Rivers in Iran

Flow and sediment transport processes are different and more complex in coarse-bed rivers than in sand-bed rivers. The main goal of the present study is to evaluate different modes of sediment transport using different hydrometric and hydraulic methods, and to address the major uncertainties. Four river reaches were selected as representatives of coarse-bed rivers in the Northwest of Iran. A se...

Special Issue on Localization and Mapping in Challenging Environments

Reliable localization and mapping are competencies essential to realize many different robot applications. A broad range of techniques, ranging from statistical approaches such as Kalman filters and particle filters, to optimization based methods, have been developed in the last two decades for solving these problems. Significant contributions have been made in improving the efficiency and robu...