Lecture Notes from MS698-03

Sediment Transport Processes in Coastal Environments

Instructor: Courtney K. Harris
Spring Semester, 2003

Lecture notes are pdf-files.

Lecture 1: Sediment characteristics
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Lecture 2:  Settling
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Lecture 3:  Fluid flow, boundary layers, and turbulence
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Lecture 4:  Roughness; bedforms
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Lecture 5:  Threshold for transport
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Lecture 6:  Bedload transport
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Lecture 7:  Form drag and skin friction
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Lecture 8 and 9:  Suspended sediment transport.
    Notes: Lecture 8
    Notes: Lecture 9

Lecture10:  Erosion and Deposition
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Lecture 11:  Sediment / Organism Interactions
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Problem set review:
    Problem Set 1


last modified:  March 18, 2003; ckharris@vims.edu