An overview on the use of backscattered sound for measuring suspended particle size and concentration profiles in non-cohesive inorganic sediment transport studies

PD Thorne, D Hurther - Continental Shelf Research, 2014 - Elsevier
For over two decades, coastal marine scientists studying boundary layer sediment transport
processes have been using, and developing, the application of sound for high temporal …

Coastal sediment dynamics: recent advances and future research needs

LCV Rijn, JS Ribberink, JVD Werf… - Journal of hydraulic …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This vision paper discusses the advances made over the last three decades in coastal sand
transport and morphodynamics, and the research needs for the coming decades. The prime …

Particle based modelling and simulation of natural sand dynamics in the wave bottom boundary layer

JR Finn, M Li, SV Apte - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
Sand transport and morphological change occur in the wave bottom boundary layer due to
sand particle interactions with an oscillatory flow and granular interactions between …

Suspended sediment transport around a large-scale laboratory breaker bar

J van Der Zanden, D Hurther, I Cáceres… - Coastal …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents novel insights into suspended sediment concentrations and fluxes
under a large-scale laboratory plunging wave. Measurements of sediment concentrations …

Suspension and near‐bed load sediment transport processes above a migrating, sand‐rippled bed under shoaling waves

D Hurther, PD Thorne - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The present study focuses on the fine‐scale flow and sand transport processes above
onshore migrating ripples below skewed surface gravity waves in the shoaling zone. A set of …

Sand motion induced by oscillatory flows: Sheet flow and vortex ripples

JS Ribberink, JJ van der Werf, T O'Donoghue… - Journal of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
A large series of field-scale experiments on turbulent sand-laden flows, conducted in
preceding years in the LOWT and AOFT large oscillating water tunnels are reviewed and …

Coarse sand transport processes in the ripple vortex regime under asymmetric nearshore waves

N Fritsch, G Fromant, D Hurther… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale wave flume experiments are conducted in the ripple vortex regime to study near
bed coarse sand transport processes below asymmetric surface waves typical of the coastal …

Eulerian Two‐Phase Model Reveals the Importance of Wave Period in Ripple Evolution and Equilibrium Geometry

A Salimi‐Tarazouj, TJ Hsu… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of ripple geometries and their equilibrium states due to different wave forcing
parameters are investigated by a Reynolds‐averaged two‐phase model, SedFoam, in a two …

Acoustic inversions for measuring boundary layer suspended sediment processes

PD Thorne, D Hurther, BD Moate - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Although sound has been applied to the study of sediment transport processes for a number
of years, it is acknowledged that there are still problems in using the backscattered signal to …

RANSE Modeling of the Oscillatory Flow Over Two‐Dimensional Rigid Ripples

B Sishah, G Vittori - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The oscillatory turbulent flow over two‐dimensional ripples is numerically simulated. Both
the profile of the ripples and the values of the parameters used in the present study are …