Aeolian Sediment Availability and Transport

This thesis explores the nature of aeolian sediment availability and its influence on aeolian sediment transport. The aim is to improve large scale and long term aeolian sediment transport estimates in (nourished) coastal environments. The generally poor performance of aeolian sediment transport models with respect to measurements in coastal...

Near-Bottom Currents on the Middle Shoreface in the Presence of the Rhine River Plume

The South-Holland coast of the Netherlands undergoes the influence of the Rhine river plume released from the Rotterdam waterways. An experiment, STRAINS, was conducted to study the impact of the fresh water on the nearshore hydrodynamics and sand transport. As part of the experiment, an instrumented bottom frame measured the near-bed...

Near-Bed Cohesive Sediment Processes: Development of a Self-Contained System for Long-Term Field Measurements

This report describes the development of a self-contained system for making long-term field measurements of bed elevation changes and the associated near-bed hydrodynamics and cohesive sedimentary parameters in estuarine environments. These measurements are required to ensure the understanding of these parameters and their interaction with bed...

Zand-watermengselstromingen: Het gedrag van zand-watermengselstromingen boven water: Verslag experimentele vervolgstudie

Experiments with non-uniform sediment in case of bed-load transport

An experimental study was carried out in the framework of a research project concerning the development of a mathematical model for morphological computations in rivers in case of non-uniform sediment. The study consists of a series of laboratory experiments in a straight flume under steady, uniform (equilibrium) conditions with a restriction to...

Information on the Arnhem Sampler (BTMA)

The Subcommittee 6 of the Technical Committee 113 of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) is dealing with measurements of sediment transport in open channels. As a back-ground paper for TC113 this report is written on the BTMA, internationally named the Arnhem Sampler. The BTMA has been developped jointly by Rijkswaterstaat,...

Het ontwikkelen van een zandtransportmeter voor gebruik in het prototype: Inventarisatie en evaluatie

Vergelijking van gemeten en berekende zandtransporten bij permanente stroming

The history of the Dutch Coast in the last century

The aims of this paper are: 1. To publish some available coastal measurements and computations of more than local importance. 2. To investigate the influence of groynes in practice. 3. To investigate the motion of the gullies in the outer deltas. The following conclusions are drawn: 1. The gross littoral drift along the Dutch coast is of the...