LONGSHORE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT RATE vs. CROSS - SHORE DISTRIBUTION OF SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZES
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Keywords

grain size
grain size distribution
sediment transport
longshore transport
crossshore distribution of sediment size

How to Cite

LONGSHORE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT RATE vs. CROSS - SHORE DISTRIBUTION OF SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZES. (1988). Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(21), 145. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v21.145

Abstract

Existing models for longshore sediment transport rate computations assume the sediment grain size and grain sizerelated parameters to be uniform in both the cross-shore and longshore directions. Field results from tideless beaches, which are briefly described in the paper, show that the latter change in both directions due to changing wave energylevels. The sensitivity analysis described in the paper shows that both longshore current and transport rate computations are sensitive to the cross-shore changes in grain size.Finally, a modified linearity coefficient for the wave power equation is proposed based upon the cross-shore distributions of grain size as found in nature.
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