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Ligthart, D. (author)
The Ayeyarwady River is a river with large hydrological variations and an abundance of relatively fine non-cohesive sediment, causing the dynamic behaviour of the river with fast shifting channels. This dynamic behaviour, together with the large hydrological variations, is the source of a frequently flooding river with a moderate navigability....
master thesis 2017
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Smits, B.P. (author)
Due to the removal of mangrove forests, the coastal zone of Demak district has suffered from severe erosion. One of the proposed solutions to restore the sediment balance and encourage mangrove re-establishment, is the construction of semi-permeable dams. This study aims to optimise the design of such structures. A 2DH site-specific model was...
master thesis 2016
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Kurniawan, V. (author)
The existence of tidal flat is beneficial for human beings, but it faces the risk of being vanished by continuous intervention, either by nature or human. Therefore, researches about tidal-flat’s morphodynamics are required for the sake of its preservation. Here, the subject of the research is the Kapellebank tidal flat in the Westerschelde...
master thesis 2016
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Doets, I.J.E. (author)
Controlling the distribution of water and sediment at river bifurcations is one of the main challenges in river engineering and management. This distribution affects the stability of river bifurcations as well as the distribution of flooding risk, navigability and environmental conditions. The governing factors are the hydrodynamics of the two...
master thesis 2015
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Mol, M. (author)
In this study, an improved error metric for morphodynamic models is introduced. Current error metrics, like the classical (Root) Mean Squared Error (RMSE), assume that predictions can be properly validated against observations by regarding the point-wise difference in bed level. This analysis inherently has the problem that phase differences of...
master thesis 2015
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Berkhout, B. (author)
River bed degradation is sometimes counteracted with nourishment of sediment material. Numerical models — which include Hirano’s sediment continuity model for mixed-size sediment — can be used to predict the transport of different sediment fractions (the waves due to spatial variations in the grain size distribution of the bed material are here...
master thesis 2015
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Broekema, Y.B. (author)
In this study a modelling approach was investigated that takes into account the effect of short wave grouping on long wave motions, calculating sediment transport and morphology with multiple fractions and a layered bed stratigraphy. After extensive testing and validating this model using data collected in a wave flume in Hannover this model was...
master thesis 2015
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Arailopoulos, I. (author)
Depth-averaged morphological computations using Delft3D tend to produce ‘strange’, results for river bends when the sediment transport formulas of Van Rijn are used. Even pools in inner bend regions and bars in outer bend regions can result from the model. The objective of the present thesis is to identify the cause of the problem and propose...
master thesis 2014
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Stecca, G. (author), Siviglia, A. (author), Blom, A. (author)
Sediment of different size are transported in rivers under the action of flow. The first and still most popular sediment continuity model able to deal with mixed sediment is the so-called active layer model proposed by Hirano (1971, 1972). In this paper, we consider the one-dimensional hydromorphodynamic model given by the Saint-Venant equations...
journal article 2014
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Jiao, J. (author)
The Dutch Wadden Sea is consisting of 7 tidal inlet systems separated by sandy barrier islands. The general morphodynamics and hydrodynamics of tidal inlets are relatively well understood, but the detailed interactions remain a prominent research interest. In this study, process-based computer models are employed as a tool to investigate the...
master thesis 2014
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Bodde, W.P. (author), Pomeroy, A.W.M. (author), Van Dongeren, A.R. (author), Lowe, R. (author), van Thiel de Vries, J.S.M. (author)
Coral reefs are highly valuable ecosystems, which are under an increasing number of environmental pressures. Sedimentation and sediment transport patterns are among key physical drivers of coral reefs, so it is important to improve our understanding of these poorly studied dynamics on reefs. To this purpose, flume experiments were performed on a...
conference paper 2014
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Scheel, F. (author), De Boer, W.P. (author), Brinkman, R. (author), Luijendijk, A.P. (author), Ranasinghe, R.W.M.R.J.B. (author)
A variety of uncertainty sources are inherent in process-based morphodynamic modelling applications. There is an increasing demand for the quantification of these uncertainties. This contribution introduces a probabilistic-morphodynamic (PM) modelling framework that enables this quantification. The PM modelling framework provides a systematic...
conference paper 2014
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Brouwer, R.L. (author)
Barrier coasts and their associated tidal inlet systems are a common feature in many parts of the world. They constitute dynamic environments that are in a continuous stage of adapting to the prevailing tide and wave conditions. Commonly, these coastal areas are densely populated and (partly) as a result there often exists a strong conflict of...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Bodde, W.P. (author)
Coral reefs are highly valuable structures in many respects and it is increasingly important to understand hydrodynamics and morphodynamics around reefs to be able to better protect them and their hinterland. Flume experiments were performed on a scaled fringing reef in the laboratory facilities of Deltares in Delft. The objective of this thesis...
master thesis 2013
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Eelkema, M. (author), Wang, Z.B. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)
The ebb-tidal delta of the Eastern Scheldt tidal inlet has been under the influence of a storm surge barrier for the past 25 years. This barrier caused a strong decrease in average tidal currents through the inlet. The morphological response of the ebb-tidal delta is characterized by several different processes: (1) an overall decrease in...
conference paper 2013
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Elias, E.P.L. (author), Van der Spek, A.J.F. (author), Wang, Z.B. (author), De Ronde, J. (author)
The availability of nearly 100 years of bathymetric measurements allows the analysis of the morphodynamic evolution of the Dutch Wadden Sea under rising sea level and increasing human constraint. The historically observed roll-over mechanisms of landward barrier and coastline retreat cannot be sustained naturally due to numerous erosion control...
conference paper 2012
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Senechal, N. (author), Abadie, S. (author), Gallagher, E. (author), MacMahan, J. (author), Masselink, G. (author), Michallet, H. (author), Reniers, A. (author), Ruessink, G. (author), Russell, P. (author), Sous, D. (author)
A large multi-institutional nearshore field experiment was conducted at Truc Vert, on the Atlantic coast of France in early 2008. Truc Vert’08 was designed to measure beach change on a long, sandy stretch of coast without engineering works with emphasis on large winter waves (offshore significant wave height up to 8 m), a three-dimensional...
journal article 2011
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Post, S. (author)
The Colombian government aims to establish a connection that bridges the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The new connection will largely take place on the current Atrato River, which has not yet been upgraded for a more extensive use of navigation in the near future. A bottleneck in the river is the delta area. Without structural dredging...
master thesis 2011
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Blom, A. (author)
A new two-layer model for conservation of mixed sediment for bedform-dominated condi-tions is proposed. There is a need for such a new bedlayer-type sediment conservation model, as (i) the commonly applied Hirano (1971) model does not account for the effects of bedform stochastics and ver-tical sorting on bed level changes, (ii) the Ribberink...
conference paper 2010
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França de Abreu, C. (author)
The objective of this study is to analyze and simulate the behavior of a non-equilibrium profile in a storm event, in particular, the Maasvlakte-2 (MV2). The MV2 is a large reclamation project at which both soft and hard sea-defenses are applied. Soft sea-defenses exhibit steep initial profiles during construction. Understanding how this sea...
master thesis 2010
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