Suspended Sediment Under Waves.

Abstract

A new, very simple and dependable field sediment sampler has been developed. It is a multi-siphon device that samples suspended sand from seven elevations simultaneously. The 65 concentration profiles that have been obtained so far are presented, complete with hydrodynamics and bed sediment data. The profiles were measured under breaking and non-breaking waves in a wide rage of coastal environments all over Australia. These data together with a review of oscillatory boundary layer flow and the motion of suspended sand in an accelerated non-uniform flow lead to a range of new insights into the processes of sediment entrainment under waves. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA121122

Entities

People

  • F. C. Coffey
  • M. O. Green
  • P. Nielsen

Organizations

  • University of Sydney

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Convection
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Grain Size
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Sedimentation
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Flow

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)