Sediment Course Materials - 2024

Course Materials 2024

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     iSURF! Here is a clean public version of iSURF. Here is a 17 miute video overview of iSURF. Here is the input/output for the examples discussed in the video.

Friday

Post-Course Homework

Teaching bundle: This is a zipped file containing your post-class assignment and much more. It includes
(i) three chapters from the NRCS handbook and worked spreadsheets that do the NRCS worked examples for a threshold channel (Ch. 8) and alluvial channel (Ch. 9) and take them to the next level or two. No, it is not as smooth as a textbook but the spreadsheets are well annotated and you should be able to work through them.
(ii) the post-workshop homework assignment - required for those taking the course for credit or CEU. The assignment requires evaluating a spreadsheet that fully solves an overcapacity threshold design problem derived from an example in Ch. 8 and Ch. 9 of the NRCS handbook. The assignments is to answer some questions about the OCT design. Some may wish to work through the NRCS chapters and examples first. Others might go straight for the homework problem. I encourage all to review the pdf and two spreadsheets for the Provo Delta example. The video tour takes you through all of that efficiently.
(iii) The spreadsheet used to solve the homework problem (OCT_iSURF_altNRCS_Example.xlsm) is pretty cool, whether or not you do the homework. It's the first spreadsheet I've put together to do the full OCT problem. Find it in the 2024 Homework folder of the teaching bundle.

Readings

 

Some references on sediment transport sampling

A couple papers on 1d morphodynamic modeling

  • Wiele et al. (2007) Grand Canyon
  • Cui et al. (2011) Practical considerations (esp. Marmot Dam)
  • A very useful talk by Yantao Cui at the 2011 EWRI Conference