TY - JOUR AU - Mehta, Ashish J. AU - McAnally, William H. AU - Samsami, Farzin AU - Manning, Andrew J. PY - 2018/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - REVISITING THE ROLE OF AGGREGATION IN THE SETTLING OF COHESIVE FLOCS IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT JF - Coastal Engineering Proceedings JA - Int. Conf. Coastal. Eng. VL - 1 IS - 36 SE - Sediment Transport and Morphology DO - 10.9753/icce.v36.sediment.17 UR - https://icce-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/icce/article/view/8681 SP - sediment.17 AB - The settling velocity is the single-most important property governing the transport of cohesive flocs in the marine environment. In that regard, the instantaneously changing diameter, density and shear strength of flocs are the defining properties which distinguish floc transport from that of cohesionless particles. Thus, consideration of aggregation, which includes the dynamics of floc growth and breakup due to floc-floc collisions as well as flow-induced shearing of flocs, is a critical component of floc transport modeling. ER -