**Acknowledgements**

Thanks to Port of Rotterdam, Hamburg Port Authority and TKI for financing measurements such as described in Section 3, Pavan Goda MSc for measurements on Beerkanaal mud and Dr. Dennis Oberrecht of NLKWN Niedersachsen, for kindly providing the Batchelor reports of Franz and Oberrecht containing original rheometric data.

## **Author details**

Arno Talmon1 \* and Ebi Meshkati2

1 Deltares, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

2 R&D Boskalis, (Former Deltares), Papendrecht, The Netherlands

\*Address all correspondence to: arno.talmon@deltares.nl

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