Loose boundary hydraulics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Arved J. Raudkivi.
• Authors: Raudkivi, A. J (Arved Jaan)
• Contents: PREFACE -- LIST OF SYMBOLS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 SEDIMENT AND FLUID PROPERTIE -- 2.1 Sediment characteristic -- 2.2 The fall velocity 12 -- 2.3 Fluid properties -- 2.3.1 Density -- 2.3.2 Viscosity -- 2.3.3 Stress-strain relationships -- 3 THRESHOLD OF PARTICLE MOVEMENT -- 3.1 Concept of threshold -- 3.2 Turbulence and initiation of motion -- 3.3 Threshold in air -- 4 SAND TRANSPORT BY AIR -- 4.1 The surface creep -- 4.2 Effects of sand movement on wind -- 4.3 Instability of a flat sand surface -- 4.4 Ridges and dunes -- 4.5 Transport by wind -- 5 GEOMETRY OF FLUVIAL CHANNELS -- 5.1 Large scale features -- 5.1.1 Mountain streams -- 5.1.2 Braiding rivers -- 5.1.3 Meandering rivers -- 5.1.4 Analytical models -- 5.2 Bed features -- 5.2.1 Ripples -- 5.2.2 Dunes -- 5.2.3 Bed features in gravel-bed rivers -- 5.2.4 Analytical models -- 5.2.5 Armouring -- 5.3 Scouring of river bed -- 5.3.1 Cross-sectional shape of channel bends -- 5.4 Secondary currents -- 6 RESISTANCE TO FLOW -- 6.1 General relationships -- 6.2 Resistance in alluvial channels -- 7 SEDIMENT TRANSPORT -- 7.1 Bed load transport -- 7.1.1 Formulae based on shear stress excess -- 7.1.2 Formulae based on probability concepts -- 7.1.3 Formulae based on work done -- 7.1.4 Formulae based on statistical and numerical analysis -- 7.1.5 Comments -- 7.2 Transport of suspended sediment -- 7.2.1 Diffusion models of suspension -- 7.2.2 The energy approach -- 7.2.3 Statistical models of suspension -- 7.2.4 Numerical models of suspension -- 7.2.5 Reference concentration and pick-up -- 7.2.6 Suspended sediment load -- 7.2.7 Wash load -- 7.2.8 Comments -- 7.3 Total sediment transport rate -- 7.3.1 Comments -- 7.4 Debris flows -- 8 STABLE CHANNEL DESIGN -- 8.1 The empirical stable channel design -- 8.2 Tractive force method of stable channel design -- 8.2.1 Drag distribution and resistance to motion -- 8.2.2 Design values for boundary shear -- 8.2.3 The minimum stable cross section -- 8.2.4 Design by tractive force method -- 8.3 Discussion -- 9 EROSION AND DEPOSITION -- 9.1 Soil erosion -- 9.2 Scour -- 9.3 Constriction scour -- 9.4 Scour at bridge piers -- 9.4.1 Flow pattern at a cylindrical pier -- 9.4.2 Scour in uniform sediment -- 9.4.3 Factors affecting scour depth -- 9.4.4 Local scour in layered sediment -- 9.4.5 Local scour due to wave action -- 9.4.6 Scour at pile groups -- 9.4.7 Pier scour summary -- 9.5 Scour at abutments and spur dikes -- 9.5.1 Factors affecting scour depth -- 9.5.2 Analytical scour formulae -- 9.5.3 Regime method -- 9.5.4 Outflanking and scour protection -- 9.6 Scour at culvert outlets -- 9.7 Scour due to jets -- 9.8 Scour at stilling basins -- 9.9 Degradation and aggradation -- 9.9.1 Degradation -- 9.9.2 Aggradation -- 9.9.3 Trapping of sediment -- 9.10 Riprap protection -- 9.10.1 Some riprap sizing methods -- 9.10.2 Riprap characteristics -- 10 COHESIVE SEDIMENTS -- 10.1 Clay minerals -- 10.2 Clay-water electrolyte system -- 10.3 Erosion of cohesive soils -- 10.3.1 The erosion process -- 10.3.2 The rate process theory -- 10.4 Estuarine sedimentation -- 10.4.1 Cohesive muds -- 10.4.2 Suspension, flocculation, settling -- 10.4.3 Deposition -- 10.4.4 Erosion -- 11 COASTAL ZONE -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Currents in coastal waters -- 11.3 The radiation stress -- 11.4 Analysis of longshore currents -- 11.4.1 The driving force -- 11.4.2 The friction force -- 11.4.3 Lateral friction -- 11.4.4 Longshore current models -- 11.5 Incipient sediment motion -- 11.6 Bed features and roughness -- 11.7 Suspension of sediment -- 11.7.1 Concentration distribution models -- 11.7.2 Suspension seaward of breakers -- 11.7.3 Suspension in the surf zone -- 11.8 Sediment transport by waves -- 11.8.1 Transport in the surf zone -- 11.9 Beach profile -- 11.10 The shoreline -- 11.11 Beach nourishment -- 11.12 Coastal structures -- 11.13 Barriers, spits and deltas -- 12 TRANSPORT IN PIPELINES -- 12.1 Homogeneous suspensions in horizontal pipe -- 12.2 Heterogeneous suspensions in horizontal pipe -- 12.3 Limit or deposit velocity -- 12.4 Non-horizontal pipeline -- 12.5 Measurement of transport -- 12.6 Partially filled pipes -- APPENDIX -- A.1 Elements of wave theory -- A.1.1 The linear or Airy waves -- A.2 Higher order wave theories -- A.2.1 Stokes wave theory -- A.2.2 Cnoidal waves -- A.2.3 Solitary wave -- A.3 Wave groups -- A.4 Wind waves -- A.5 Waves in shoaling water -- A.5.I Shoaling -- A.5.2 Refraction -- A.5.3 Diffraction -- A.5.4 Breaking waves -- A.5.5 Wave reflection -- A.6 Trapping of wave energy -- A.7 Wave boundary layers and friction factor -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 627.122; Sediment transport
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000150506
• Related ISBNs: 9781000099829; 9781000121544; 9781003077800
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