HE 614 – River Engineering and Sediment Transport

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS

1. A wide open channel has a water depth of h = 3 m, mean current velocity = 2.0 m/s, and mean bed
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slope = 4 x 10 . The bed material characteristics are d50 = 350 µm, d90 = 1000 µm, sediment density
ρs = 2650 kg/m3, fluid density ρ = 1000 kg/m3, fluid temperature Te = 20oC (ν = 1 x 10-6 m2/s).
What are the type of bed forms and the bed form dimensions according to the method of Van Rijn?

2. A wide open channel has a water depth of h = 2 m, mean current velocity = 0.6 m/s. The Chézy
½
coefficient is C = 63 m /s. The bed material characteristics are d50 = 150 µm, d90 = 300 µm. Other
data are ρ = 1000 kg/m3, ρs = 2650 kg/m3. ν = 1 x 10-6 m2/s.
What type of bed forms can be expected according to the methods of Liu, Simons-Richardson and
Van Rijn:
What are the dimensions of the Ripples?

3. A wide channel has a water depth of h = 3 m. The depth averaged velocity is = 1 m/s. The bed
material characteristics are d50 = 300 µm, d90 = 500 µm, the fluid density ρ = 1000 kg/m3, the
sediment density ρs = 2650 kg/m3. The kinematic viscosity is ν = 1 x 10-6 m2/s.
What types of bed forms are present?
What are the bed form dimensions?
What is the effective bed roughness?

4. A wide channel has a water depth of h = 2 m. The depth averaged velocity is = 0.7 m/s. The bed
material characteristics are d50 = 200 µm, d90 = 400 µm. Other parameters are ρ = 1000 kg/m3, ρs =
2650 kg/m3. ν = 1 x 10-6 m2/s.
What is the Chézy coefficient according to the method of Engelund-Hansen and Van Rijn?

5. A wide channel has a water depth of h = 2 m. The water surface slope is I = 2 x 10-4. is = 0.7 m/s.
The bed material characteristics are d35 = 400 µm, d50 = 500 µm, d90 = 1000 µm. Other parameters are
ρ = 1000 kg/m3, ρs = 2650 kg/m3. ν = 1 x 10-6 m2/s.
What is the Chézy-coefficient and the depth averaged velocity according to the methods of Engelund-
Hansen, White et al and Smith-McLean?