Suspended Sediment Concentration Profiles in Wave-Current Flows
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 125, Issue 9
Abstract
Improved expressions to predict time-averaged and horizontally averaged vertical suspended sediment concentration profiles ( profiles) in wave and current (w-c) conditions are required to advance our present ability to predict rates of noncohesive sediment transport in the marine environment. In the present paper, a new expression for predicting profiles has been calibrated and tested using measurements of waves, currents, and profiles obtained in a laboratory basin for a broad range of w-c conditions. Good agreement between observed and predicted profiles is demonstrated.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 125 • Issue 9 • September 1999
Pages: 906 - 911
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Received: Feb 19, 1998
Published online: Sep 1, 1999
Published in print: Sep 1999
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