Table 1
Longshore sediment transport formulas (for notation see Appendix A)
Formula
Longshore sediment
Coefficients
Verification data
transport formula
tanb
D (mm)
Exp. condition
!
V pffiffiffiffiffi
0:27s 1d50qg
Ad50
g exp
qb;B
Bijker
A= 15
0.23
0.07
H0 = 1.6 m;
lsb;wc
C
!
33h
1:83qb;B I1ln
I2
qs;B
(non-breaking breaking)
T = 12.0 s;
r
a = 13
0:05Cs2;wc
b
qt;EH V
Engelund Hansen
0.19 0.93
s 12d50q2g5=2
!
sb;wc sb;crV
A
qt;W
A = 0.5 2
0.2 2.0
0.2 0.01
H0 = 0.02 2.4 m;
Watanabe
qg
(regular irregular)
T = 1.0 18.0 s;
a = 15 45
n
1
V Cd;gr
FC Am
V
d35
qt;AW
Ackers White
A, m, n, Cd,gr, FC
0.2 0.61
h = 0.18 7.17 m
m
1p
V
A
(not modified)
(see Appendix A)
sffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
!
s0b;wc s0b;wc sb;cr 1:5
Van Rijn
0.1 0.2
H0 = 0.07 0.2 m;
qb;VR 0:25cqsd50D0:3
q
sb;cr
Z h
T = 1.0 2.0 s;
1
v c
qs;VR caVh
dz caVhF
a = 90
h a V ca
dv
eb
3
3
dv
qt;BI 0:5qfwu0
eb = 0.1; es = 0.02
0.175 0.6
0.034 0.138
H0 = 0.05 1.44 m;
Bailard Inman
qs qgtanc 2
es
T = 1.0 11.0 s;
dvu
0:5qfwu4
0
3
qs qgws
a = 2.8 18.9