Sediment Dynamics and Boundary Layer Physics

1430 MTWR

425 OSB

 

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.     FIELD TRIP – SQUIRE CREEK SLIDE

B.     Debris Flows

C.     LAB DEMO – TURBIDITY CURRENTS

D.     Turbidity Currents

E.      Suspension Dynamics

 

Papers to be covered:

 

Papers discussed in past years

 

 

GRADING:

 

20% 4 Homework Sets

            Homework #1

            Homework #2

            Homework #3

            Homework #4

20% Project

30% Final Exam (Mar 17, 2-4pm 211 OTB)

10% Class Participation

 

Late policy:  2% docked every business-day (a day ends at 6pm) past the due date. 

 

 

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.