Sediment Transport

SILVIA SUSANA GINSBERG

Intech

Año: 2011 p. 334

978-953-307-189-3

Sediment Transport is a book that covers a wide variety of subject matters. Physicists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and geologists have been investigating sediment transport for several decades and keep on doing so to learn further about it in an attempt to give solutions to problems resulting from human intervention in nature. In this respect, research on sediment transport has gained importance due to the increasing use of water resources. On the other hand, fully understanding erosion and sedimentation processes and their impact on sediment transport plays a key role in the growing knowledge on the importance of fluvial, lake and/or marine sediments over a highly heterogeneous variety of environmental problems. In this respect, this book is a doubly significant contribution, firstly because of the growing interest of society in environmental matters and secondly because of the updated issues it deals with. It reports results from studies carried out in aqueous systems and in laboratory flumes by researchers whose expertise focuses on transportable solid particles and related problems. It is with great satisfaction that I write the preface to this book by InTech, which includes 16 chapters written by researchers from different parts of the world on hydrodynamics and its relationship with sediment transport and morphological development. The main subject matter is presented in the light of different approaches such as sediment transport modeling in non-alluvial beds and hyperconcentrated flows; coastal area modeling for harbor planning; littoral zone modeling, boat traffic-induced sediment resuspension modeling; and settling flux modeling. Other contributions included in the book focus on cohesive sediment modeling; sediment dynamics in stream confluence or river diversion; analytical modeling applied to studies on fluid-bed interfaces in meandering channels; changes in sediment transport under fine materials, cohesive materials and ice cover; environmental remediation of contaminated fine sediments; bedform field evolution over sediment transport; and sediment circulation at interconnected tidal channels system. Authors are responsible for their views and conclusions. In short, by fully accomplishing its objectives, this book is an excellent source of information which opens new paths worth of exploring. It is an invaluable interdisciplinary textbook and an important contribution to the field. Let me also gratefully thank each of the authors for their contributions and strongly recommend this textbook to those in charge of conducting research on engineering issues or wishing to deal with equally important scientific problems