In organic-enriched sedimentary systems, like many Mediterranean coastal lagoons, a detailed analysis of sediment grain size composition and partitioning within the muds is crucial to investigate sedimentological trends related to both hydrodynamic energy and basin morphology. In these systems, sediment dynamics are particularly important because the partitioning and transport of fine sediments...

It is important to understand the fate of terrestrial sediment into the coastal ocean, because it determines for example the seabed properties and the turbidity of the water column. Several recent initiatives, such as NOPP Community Sediment Transport Model, MURIUnderstading Wave-Mud Interaction and Tidal Mud Flats DRI have put forward new outstanding science and technical questions for coastal...

3 The purpose of this study was to quantify how vegetation influences the flow and sediment processes 4 relevant for the design and management of environmental compound channels. Therefore, we conducted a 5 two-year field investigation in a cohesive two-stage channel, focusing on the flow resistance and net 6 deposition in five sub-reaches with different floodplain vegetation conditions. In the...

ABSTRACT Sediment gravity flows are natural composed by water and sediment in which the gravitational flow acts on sediment. The distinct physical properties of cohesive (clay) non-cohesive (sand) sediment, interaction between these particles alter ability to resist movement (rheology) along time space, represented viscosity a mixture suspension. Hence, we propose study rheological those mixtur...

The development of a fully coupled and parallel hydraulics, sediment, and wave model for simulation of physical marine processes has impact on many national defense and security operations. This report describes the development of a parallel version of a combined hydraulics and sediment model a key component for the fully coupled model. The parallel version of the coupled hydraulics and sedimen...

Sm-Nd studies were carried out on Last Glacial and Holocene sediments from the Labrador Sea. Three grain-size fractions were analyzed for each sediment: the clay-size fraction (<2 μm), the fine cohesive silts (2-10 μm) and the coarse silts (10-63 μm). In most cases, Sm-Nd signatures are different from one grain-size to another. In addition, different Sm-Nd signatures are derived from the clay-s...

Existing flocculation models for cohesive sediments are classified into two groups: population balance equation models (PBE) and floc growth models. An FGM ensures mass conservation in a closed system. However, an FGM determines only the average size of flocs, whereas a PBE has the capability to calculate a size distribution of flocs. A new stochastic approach to model the flocculation process ...