Fine Sediment Dynamics in the Marine Environment

Cover -- Contents -- In memory of Ray B. Krone -- Preface -- Prediction of cohesive sediment transport modelling and bed dynamics in estuaries and coastal zones with integrated numerical simulation models -- Chapter 1. COSINUS tasks A through D summaries -- Interaction of suspended cohesive sediment and turbulence -- Flocculation and settling velocity of fine sediment -- Dynamics of Concentrated Benthic Suspension Layers -- Measurement and modelling of the properties of cohesive sediment deposits -- Numerical simulation of cohesive transport: intercomparison of several numerical models -- Chapter 2. High-concentrated mud suspensions -- Tidal asymmetry and variability of bed shear stress and sediment bed flux at a site in San Francisco Bay, USA -- Physical modelling of entrainment by a Concentrated Benthic Suspension -- lnterfacial instabilities at the lutocline in the Jiaojiang estuary, China -- CBS layers in a diffusive turbulence grid oscillation experiment -- Modelling of turbulent flow with suspended cohesive sediment -- Scaling parameters for High-Concentrated Mud Suspensions in tidal flow -- Chapter 3. Flocculation and settling velocity -- Direct observation of the formation and break-up of aggregates in an annular flume using laser reflectance particle sizing -- The turbidity maximum in a mesotidal estuary, the Tamar Estuary, UK. I. Dynamics of suspended sediment -- The turbidity maximum in a mesotidal estuary, the Tamar Estuary, UK. II. The floc properties -- A comparison of floc properties observed during neap and spring tidal conditions -- Particle size distribution in an estuarine turbidity maximum region -- On the geometry of cohesive settling flocs -- Comparison of flocculation models for applied sediment transport modelling -- In situ measurements of settling velocity and particle size distribution with the LISST-ST -- Chapter 4. Processes in and on the bed: consolidation and erosion -- On the erodibility of fine-grained sediments in an infilling freshwater system -- Gas bubble nucleation and growth in cohesive sediments -- Erosion properties of mud beds deposited in laboratory settling columns -- Strength modelling of consolidating mud beds -- Description of vertical exchange processes in numerical mud transport modelling -- Simulation of biogenic sediment stabilisation by heterotrophic bacteria in an annular flume -- The influence of an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) on cohesive sediment stability -- Chapter 5. Fieldobservations on mud dynamics and instrumentation -- The seasonal dynamics of benthic (micro) organisms and extracellular carbohydrates in an intertidal mudflat and their effect on the concentration of suspended sediment -- Interaction of submerged vegetation, hydrodynamics and tubidity; analysis of field and laboratory Studies -- Sedimentation in a coastal mangrove system, Red River Delta, Vietnam -- A preliminary study on using acoustic waves to measure high resolution marine sediment bed structure -- An unusual turbidity maximum -- Near bed sediment transport in the ltaja??-a??u River estuary, southern Brazil -- Field study and modelling on the characteristics of bed mud formation processes at the Rokkaku River -- Chapter 6. Numerical modelling -- Numerical simulation of cohesive sediment transport in the Loire estuary with a three-dimensional model including new parameterisations -- 3D application of the continuous modelling.