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| Modelling cohesive sediment transport in estuaries and coastal waters Pathirana, K.P.P. (1994). Modelling cohesive sediment transport in estuaries and coastal waters. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Laboratorium voor Hydraulica: Leuven. xxii, 207 pp.
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Soil erosion Soil erosion Transport > Sediment transport |
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A finite element transport model was developed which simulates the temporal and spatial distribution of fine, cohesive sediments and bed level changes in estuaries and coastal waters. The two-dimensional, depth-averaged, advection-dispersion equation has been solved with an appropriate sink/source term representing the sediment exchange processes at the bed. The proposed model is aimed at well-mixed estuaries. The sediment processes such as, erosion, settling and deposition, have been incorporated in the proposed model through appropriate empirical relationships based on laboratory and field investigations. The sediment bed was considered as composed of a number of layers, each having different values for sediment parameters. The model was verified using experimental data from annular flume studies. The results of two laboratory tests have been utilized which include the cohesive sediment transport in an annular flume under uniform and alternating currents. This work was undertaken as part of the MAST -2, G8 Coastal Morphodynamics research programme which was funded by the Commission of the European Community. The model was applied to a part of the Western Scheldt estuary to simulate the movement of cohesive sediments and deposition patterns. The model results were presented and discussed in detail. The model predictions have also been compared with two other transport models. The complete sediment transport model is composed of three major submodels which relate to hydrodynamic, sediment transport and bed level computations. As a result, the number of computations to be performed during model simulations are expected to be considerably high, so that large scale simulations are difficult to perform within a reasonable time. In order to improve the computational performance, the applicability of parallel computers for simulating sediment transport problems, was investigated. The proposed model has been implemented on the iPSC/2 hypercube multiprocessor by utilizing domain decomposition techniques. Computational performances of the parallel implementation have been evaluated by a large scale simulation. |
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