This
course aims to introduce fundamental mechanics of sediment transport in oceans,
coastal areas, and rivers, and practical tools for sediment-related problems. The
first part talks about sediment dynamics, including settling, incipient motion,
bed-load and suspended load, figuring out how the formulae of sediment
transport in practical tools were proposed. Then, coastal and river engineering
sediment-related problems, such as beach erosion, channel siltation, estuarine
turbidity, scours, and submarine landslides, are discussed and edge-cutting
studies are focused on. Finally, practical tools, mainly coastal simulation
software Delft3D, are introduced to help students learn to solve practical sediment
problems in coastal and river engineering.
- Teacher: huabinshi, Shi Huabin