TSMO : Transport sédimentaire et morphodynamique

Objectives

Introduction to the physical processes involved in sediment transport by a fluid and the estimation of the mass fluxes and bed evolution resulting from sediment transport.

Description

I. Géomorpholoqy of coasts and rivers
II. Local processes and morphodynamics
III. Sediment properties
IV. Incipient motion
V. Modeling bedload transport
VI. Modeling suspended load transport
VII. Numerical approaches for modeling sediment transport

Bibliography

 -Principles of Sediment Transport in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas, LC. Van Rijn 1990 Aqua Publications.
- Hydraulics of sediment transport, W.H. Graf 1984 Water Ressources Publications

Pre-requisites

Fluid mechanics