Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics · Lesson 15 of 27

Sediment Transport and Scour

Predict when a channel bed starts to move using the boundary shear stress, the threshold of motion, and the Shields parameter, separate the load into bed load and suspended load, size grains by their Stokes settling velocity, and estimate local scour depth at bridge piers, on the Hydraulics and Geotechnical Engineering paper of the CELE.

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