Meet the editor

Professor Andrew J. Manning is a principal scientist (rank grade 9) in the Coasts and Oceans group at HR Wallingford, UK. He has more than 23 years of scientific research experience in both industry and academia examining natural turbulent flow dynamics, and fine-grained sediment transport processes, and assessing how these interact using both field studies and controlled laboratory flume simulations. He also lectures in coastal

and shelf physical oceanography at the University of Plymouth, UK. Internationally, Professor Manning has been appointed visiting/adjunct/guest professor at the University of Hull, UK; Stanford University, USA; University of Delaware, USA; University of Florida, USA; and Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. He is a highly published and world-renowned scientist in the field of depositional sedimentary flocculation processes. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and recipient of a University of Plymouth Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship (2007) and the "Exemplary Act Award" by the US Department of the Interior and US Geological Survey (2015). He has contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in marine science, more than 50 of which have been published in international scientific journals, in addition to more than140 articles in refereed international conference proceedings. He supervises graduates, postgraduates, and doctoral students focusing on a range of research topics in marine science. Professor Manning has led numerous research projects investigating sediment transport and dynamics in aquatic environments around the world, including estuaries, tidal lagoons, river deltas, salt marshes, intertidal, coastal waters, and shelf seas.

Contents

*by Shu-Qing Yang*

*and Bofeng Bai*

*and Andrew J. Manning*

Dredging

*and Alex Kirichek*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 45**

**Chapter 4 79**

**Chapter 5 99**

**Chapter 6 123**

**Chapter 7 143**

Rheology of Mud: An Overview for Ports and Waterways Applications

Flocculation in Estuaries: Modeling, Laboratory and In-situ Studies

Advances in Maintenance of Ports and Waterways: Water Injection

*by Alex Kirichek, Katherine Cronin, Lynyrd de Wit and Thijs van Kessel*

Non-Intrusive Characterization and Monitoring of Fluid Mud: Laboratory Experiments with Seismic Techniques, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), and Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) *by Deyan Draganov, Xu Ma, Menno Buisman, Tjeerd Kiers, Karel Heller* 

Formulae of Sediment Transport in Steady Flows (Part 1)

Formulae of Sediment Transport in Unsteady Flows (Part 2)

Physics of Cohesive Sediment Flocculation and Transport: State-of-the-Art Experimental and Numerical Techniques

*by Bernhard Vowinckel, Kunpeng Zhao, Leiping Ye, Andrew J. Manning, Tian-Jian Hsu, Eckart Meiburg* 

*by Ahmad Shakeel, Alex Kirichek and Claire Chassagne*

*by Claire Chassagne, Zeinab Safar, Zhirui Deng, Qing He* 

*by Shu-Qing Yang and Ishraq AL-Fadhly*

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## **Chapter 8 167**

Activated Flooded Jets and Immiscible Layer Technology Help to Remove and Prevent the Formation of Bottom Sediments in the Oil Storage Tanks *by Georgii V. Nesyn*

## **Chapter 9 175**

Study of Water and Sediment Quality in the Bay of Dakhla, Morocco: Physico-Chemical Quality and Metallic Contamination *by Mimouna Anhichem and Samir Benbrahim*

Preface

The effective management of many aquatic environments requires a detailed understanding of sediment transport and dynamics. This has both environmental and economic implications, especially where there is any anthropogenic involvement. Numerical models are often the tool used for predicting the transport and fate of sediment movement in these situations, as they can estimate the various spatial and temporal fluxes. However, the physical sedimentary processes can vary quite considerably depending upon whether the local sediments are fully cohesive, non-cohesive, or a mixture of both types. For this reason, for more than half a century, scientists, engineers, hydrologists, and mathematicians have been conducting research into the many aspects that influence sediment transport. These issues range from processes such as scour, erosion, and deposition, to how sediment process observations can be applied in sediment transport modeling frameworks. Written by experts in the field, *Sediment Transport - Recent Advances* draws on international scientific research to examine the following sediment transport-related issues: mud rheology, port and waterways maintenance, steady and unsteady flow,

fluid mud monitoring, flocculation processes, sediment, and water quality.

steady flows.

issues.

This book includes nine chapters written by an international group of research scientists who specialize in sediment dynamics, geomorphology, water quality, rheology, and numerical modeling. Most of the chapters are concerned with sediment transport-related issues in estuarial, coastal, or freshwater environments. For example, there is a chapter on mud rheology in ports and waterways and a chapter on sediment quality in the Bay of Dakhla, Morocco. Other chapters in the book discuss non-intrusive seismic monitoring of fluid mud, sediment removal from oil storage tanks, and formulae of sediment transport in both unsteady and

This book is an excellent source of information on recent research on sediment transport. I would like to thank all the authors for their contributions, and I highly recommend this textbook to both scientists and engineers who deal with related

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