Sediment Transport, Part I: Bed Load Transport
- 1 October 1984
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
- Vol. 110 (10) , 1431-1456
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9429(1984)110:10(1431)
Abstract
A method is presented which enables the computation of the bedload transport as the product of the saltation height, the particle velocity and the bed‐load concentration. The equations of motions for a solitary particle are solved numerically to determine the saltation height and particle velocity. Experiments with gravel particles (transported as bed load) are selected to calibrate the mathematical model using the lift coefficient as a free parameter. The model is used to compute the saltation heights and lengths for a range of flow conditions. The computational results are used to determine simple relationships for the saltation characteristics. Measured transport rates of the bed load are used to compute the sediment concentration in the bed‐load layer. A simple expression specifying the bed‐load concentration as a function of the flow and sediment conditions is proposed. A verification analysis using about 600 (alternative) data shows that about 77% of the predicted bed load‐transport rates are within...Keywords
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