This book is intended as a useful handbook for professionals and
researchers in the areas of Physical Oceanography, Marine Geology,
Coastal Geomorphology and Coastal Engineering and as a text for
graduate students in these fields. With its emphasis on boundary
layer flow and basic sediment transport modelling, it is meant to
help fill the gap between general hydrodynamic texts and
descriptive texts on marine and coastal sedimentary processes. The
book commences with a review of coastal bottom boundary layer flows
including the boundary layer interaction between waves and steady
currents. The concept of eddy viscosity for these flows is
discussed in depth because of its relation to sediment diffusivity.
The quasi-steady processes of sediment transport over flat beds are
discussed. Small scale coastal bedforms and the corresponding
hydraulic roughness are described. The motion of suspended sand
particles is studied in detail with emphasis on the possible
suspension maintaining mechanisms in coastal flows. Sediment pickup
functions are provided for unsteady flows. A new combined
convection-diffusion model is provided for suspended sediment
distributions. Different methods of sediment transport model
building are presented together with some classical models.
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