River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics

✍ Scribed by Giovanni Seminara, Paolo Blondeaux (auth.), Professor Giovanni Seminara, Professor Paolo Blondeaux (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent developments in river, coastal and estuarine morphodynamics through a collection of review papers written by well-recognized experts in the field. Apart from geoscientists, it is also of special interest to people involved in fluid mechanics who want to understand near wall turbulence and the effects of coherent structures on the mechanisms of sediment transports. Though aimed at geomorphologists and sedimentologists, the terminology employed in the book makes it generally accessible to engineers, physicists and applied mathematicians at the postgraduate level. The contributions are well-illustrated with splendid pictures of various morphodynamic natural patterns.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Perspectives in Morphodynamics....Pages 1-9
Sediment Entrainment and Transport in Complex Flows....Pages 11-35
Alluvial Roughness in Streams with Dunes: A Boundary-Layer Approach....Pages 37-60
The Use of Numerical Models in Coastal Hydrodynamics and Morphology....Pages 61-92
Process of Occurrence, Flow and Deposition of Viscous Debris Flow....Pages 93-118
Transverse Slope of Bed and Turbid-Clear Water Interface of Channelized Turbidity Currents Flowing around Bends....Pages 119-139
Pattern Formation in the Nearshore....Pages 141-162
Long-Term Morphological Prediction....Pages 163-190
River and Tidal Networks....Pages 191-211

✦ Subjects

Geography (general);Sedimentology;Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics;Fluid- and Aerodynamics