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This document contains 5 problems related to river engineering and sediment transport. The problems involve calculating bed forms, dimensions of ripples, effective bed roughness, Chezy coefficients, and depth averaged velocities using various methods from authors like Van Rijn, Liu, Simons-Richardson, Engelund-Hansen, White et al, and Smith-McLean. Hydraulic and sediment parameters such as water depth, velocity, bed slope, sediment size distributions and densities are provided for each problem.

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This document contains 5 problems related to river engineering and sediment transport. The problems involve calculating bed forms, dimensions of ripples, effective bed roughness, Chezy coefficients, and depth averaged velocities using various methods from authors like Van Rijn, Liu, Simons-Richardson, Engelund-Hansen, White et al, and Smith-McLean. Hydraulic and sediment parameters such as water depth, velocity, bed slope, sediment size distributions and densities are provided for each problem.

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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
slope = 4 x 10-4. 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
coefficient is C = 63 m½/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/m 3, 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?

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