Sediment Dynamics and Boundary Layer Physics

Jeff Parsons

email: parsons@ocean.washington.edu

phone: (206) 221-6627

office: 111A MSB

COURSE CONTENT:

1. Fluid Mechanics and Boundary Layers

A. Approximations to the N-S Equations

B. Open-Channel Flow and Boundary Layer Theory

C. Characterization and Modeling of Turbulence

2. Discrete Sediment Transport

A. Sediment Characterization and Particle Settling

B. Initiation of Motion and Entrainment

C. LAB DEMO – INITIATION OF MOTION

D. Suspended Load

E. Bedload

F. Bedforms

G. Total Load and Sediment Rating Curves

3. Continuum Sediment Transport

A. LAB DEMO – TURBIDITY CURRENTS

B. Turbidity Currents

C. FIELD TRIP – SQUIRE CREEK DEBRIS FLOW

D. Debris Flows

E. LAB DEMO – CONVECTIVE SEDIMENTATION

F. Suspension Dynamics

Useful TEXTs:

Batchelor, G. K. 1968. Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge University Press.

Fischer, H. B. et al. 1979. Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters. Academic Press.

Lamb, H. 1932. Hydrodynamics. Dover Publications.

Julien P. K. 1995. Erosion and Sedimentation. Cambridge University Press.

Turner, J. S. 1972. Buoyancy Effects in Fluids. Cambridge University Press.

Graf, W. H. 1971. Hydraulics of Sediment Transport. McGraw-Hill.