Chapter 2
Channel Sedimentation Processes
Publication: Navigation Channel Sedimentation Solutions
Abstract
Reliable solutions to and accurate predictions of navigation channel sedimentation require a thorough knowledge of sediment transport processes, including the hydrologic and hydraulic forces driving those processes. This chapter provides an overview of significant waterway sedimentation processes. Broadly speaking, the principal external forces of interest are water, wind, and gravity. In riverine locations, gravity is the dominant external energy force, and the hydrodynamic equations need only to translate that force into flow velocity and boundary shear. The source, transport, and eventual sink of sediment represent a complex interplay of long- and short-term processes that must be understood to predict future behavior. Sedimentation processes occur at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Cohesive sediment erosion, transport, aggregation, settling, deposition, and consolidation depend on the inherent physio-chemical characteristics of the sediment and their interaction with the water and its flow field.
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Published online: Nov 3, 2023
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Aerodynamics
- Boundary shear
- Channels (waterway)
- Continuum mechanics
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering mechanics
- Flow (fluid dynamics)
- Fluid dynamics
- Fluid mechanics
- Gravity forces
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Hydraulics
- Hydrologic engineering
- Hydrology
- Infrastructure
- Navigation (waterway)
- River engineering
- Sediment
- Sediment transport
- Solid mechanics
- Transportation engineering
- Water and water resources
- Water transportation
- Waterways
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