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Bed-load transport
Published in Springer Verlag
2014
Volume: 4
   
Pages: 261 - 326
Abstract
The mode of sediment transport where the sediment particles slide, roll, or travel in succession of low jumps close to the bed is known as bed-load transport. In this chapter, theories of bed-load and formulations to predict the bed-load transport rate are presented. The pioneering attempt to predict the bed-load transport rate was due to MP du Boys in 1879, who expressed bed-load transport rate as a function of excess bed shear stress, that is the bed shear stress exceeding the threshold bed shear stress. Thereafter, number of researchers suggested du Boys type equations making use of the excess bed shear stress in different forms and coefficients. Other concepts to predict the bed-load transport rate are the discharge concept (Schoklitsch type), the velocity concept, the bedform concept, the probabilistic concept (Einstein type), the deterministic concept (Bagnold type), and the equal mobility concept. The additional features of this chapter are the discussion on particle saltation, sediment sorting, streambed armoring, and sediment entrainment probability to bed load. The effects of bed load on velocity distribution, length scales of turbulence, and von Kármán constant are also discussed in details. The method of computation of bed-load transport is illustrated through worked out examples. © 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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JournalGeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences
PublisherSpringer Verlag
ISSN21905193