Sedimentation Hazar Port

Hazar Port is located in Turkmenistan on Cheleken Peninsula, which is situated on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. Dragon Oil, an international oil and gas exploration company, is engaged in exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in the Caspian Sea. Dragon Oil would like to use the harbour of Hazar as supply base for the expanding of...

Modelling sediment transport and morphology during overwash and breaching events

Currently, morphodynamic models as XBeach show substantial overestimations of the erosion rates during breaching and overwash events at barrier islands. The presently used limitations on the Shields parameter and the sediment concentration do hinder erosion, but have undesirable side effects, e.g. the breaching process is suppressed. By...

The bedload layer in a 1D sand-gravel morphodynamic model

The effective thickness of the bedload layer over a river bed can be schematised as the total volume of bedload sediment that is in transport, divided by the surface. In practice, this layer is considered to have a constant thickness over time. Main question of this thesis is whether this assumption is valid. By analyzing the mass balance, it is...