Acceleration Effects on Fluid-Sediment Interaction

The long-term goals of this research are: (i) to identify all relevant physical processes that participate in and contribute significantly to sediment transport in nearshore coastal waters; (ii) to investigate each of the identified processes in order to understand the underlying physics in a quantitative manner; (iii) to develop simple predictive models for each process; and (iv) to incorporate the simple predictive process-models in a predictive model for beach profile response to the action of waves and currents.