Energy Relations for Suspended Sediment Transport

by Gerd Holtorff, Technical Univ Berlin, Germany,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Sediment Transport Modeling

Abstract:

One of the main difficulties in predicting transport rates of suspended sediment on the basis of the Rouse-expression for relative sediment concentrations, is the lack of any reliable information about the reference concentration, C_a. As the sediment suspension process consumes energy, it appears appropriate to infer C_a from the energy balance of a sediment-laden flow. Energy relations also explain how the structure of the flow is modified in the presence of sediment suspensions.

Subject Headings: Suspended sediment | Sediment transport | Sediment | Transport rates | Hydro power | Fluid flow | Water flow

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