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Mechanics of coastal sediment transport
Fredsoe, J.; Deigaard, R. (1992). Mechanics of coastal sediment transport. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering, 3. World Scientific: Singapore. ISBN 981-02-0841-3. XVIII, 369 pp.
Part of: Liu, P.L.-F. (Ed.) Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. World Scientific: Singapore. ISSN 1793-074X, more

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Document type: Training material

Keywords
    Environments > Aquatic environment > Marine environment
    Forces (mechanics) > Stress (mechanics) > Shear stress
    Layers > Boundary layers
    Models > Mathematical models
    Non-cohesive sediments
    Physics > Mechanics > Fluid mechanics > Hydrodynamics
    Sediment load > Bed load
    Sediment load > Suspended load
    Sedimentary structures > Bed forms
    Topographic features > Beach features > Surf zone
    Transport > Sediment transport
    Wave motion
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Fredsoe, J.
  • Deigaard, R.

Abstract
    This book treats the subject of sediment transport in the marine environment, covering transport of noncohesive sediment by waves and currents in- and outside the surf zone. It can be read independently, but a background in hydraulics and basic wave mechanics is required.
    br>The primary aim of the book is to describe the physical processes of sediment transport and how to represent them in mathematical models. The book can be divided in two main parts; in the first, the relevant hydrodynamic theory is described. This part contains a review of elementary theory for water waves, chapters on the turbulent wave boundary layer and the turbulent interaction between waves and currents, and finally, surf zone hydrodynamics and wave driven currents.

    The second part covers sediment transport and morphological development.The part on sediment transport introduces the basic concepts (critical bed shear stress, bed load, suspended load and sheet layer, near-bed concentration, effect of sloping bed); it treats suspended sediment in waves and current and in the surf zone, and current and wave-generated bed forms. Finally, the modelling of cross-shore and long-shore sediment transport is described together with the development of coastal profiles and coastlines.

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