Many formulas available in the literature for computing sediment transport rates are often expressed in terms of time-mean variables such as time-mean bed shear stress or flow velocity, while effects of turbulence intensity, e.g., bed shear stress fluctuation, on sediment transport were seldom considered. This may be due to the fact that turbulence fluctuation is relatively limited in laborator...

Abstract Bedload transport is an important factor to describe the hydromorphological processes of fluvial systems. However, conventional bedload sampling methods have large uncertainty, making it harder understand this notoriously complex phenomenon. In study, a novel, image-based approach, Video-based Tracker (VBT), implemented quantify gravel by combining two different techniques: Statistical...

In this paper we study Exner system and introduce a modified general definition for bedload transport flux. The new formulation has the advantage of taking into account the thickness of the sediment layer which avoids mass conservation problems in certain situations. Moreover, it reduces to a classical solid transport discharge formula in the case of quasi-uniform regime. And as a particular ca...

When investigating sediment transport in laboratory open-channel flows, it is often necessary to remove sidewall effects for computing effective bed shear stress. Previous sidewall correction methods include some assumptions that have not been completely verified, and therefore different values of the bed shear stress may be obtained, depending on the approach used in making sidewall correction...