Computation of sediment transport and presentation of results

This article is a summary of chapter 4 of the Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas . This article introduces how the total load transport can be calculated. A more complete article on this topic is Sand transport.

Calculation of load transport

When the suspended sediment samples are collected as point-integrated samples, there are two methods to compute the depth-integrated suspended load transport. First, there is the so-called partial method which gives the suspended load transport between the bed and the highest sampling point using a linear interpolation between adjacent (measured) values. Second, there is the so-called integral method, which gives the total suspended load transport between the bed and the water surface by fitting a theoretical distribution to the measured flow velocity and concentration profiles. Applying this latter method, the suspended load in the unsampled zone is taken into account. The transport rate of the suspended silt (2 to 63 um) and suspended sand particles (>63 um) should be computed separately. If necessary, more fractions can be used.

The total load transport can be obtained by summation of bed load and suspended load transport.

See also

Summaries of the manual

• Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas
• Chapter 1: Introduction, problems and approaches in sediment transport measurements
• Chapter 2: Definitions, processes and models in morphology
• Chapter 3: Principles, statistics and errors of measuring sediment transport
• Chapter 5: Measuring instruments for sediment transport
• Chapter 6: Measuring instruments for particle size and fall velocity
• Chapter 7: Measuring instruments for bed material sampling
• Chapter 8: Laboratory and in situ analysis of samples
• Chapter 9: In situ measurement of wet bulk density
• Chapter 10: Instruments for bed level detection
• Chapter 11: Argus video
• Chapter 12: Measuring instruments for fluid velocity, pressure and wave height

References

The main authors of this article are Rijn, Leo van and Roberti, Hans Please note that others may also have edited the contents of this article. Citation: Rijn, Leo van; Roberti, Hans; (2020): Computation of sediment transport and presentation of results. Available from http://www.coastalwiki.org/wiki/Computation_of_sediment_transport_and_presentation_of_results [accessed on 21-11-2024] For other articles by this author see Category:Articles by Rijn, Leo van For other articles by this author see Category:Articles by Roberti, Hans For an overview of contributions by this author see Special:Contributions/Leovanrijn For an overview of contributions by this author see Special:Contributions/Robertihans