Teaching
CIVE580C2 Sediment Transport
Offered: Fall 2024 [Course Syllabus]​​​​
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This is an introductory course to the mechanics of sediment transport in streams, rivers, estuaries, reservoirs, alluvial fans, and deltas. The main objective of the course is to develop an understanding of the process involved in the initiation of motion, entrainment, suspension, transport, and fate of sediment in the natural environment. The class will also cover concepts of suspended load, bedload, and wash load, as well as transport by turbidity currents. Applications to river engineering problems and morphodynamics of rivers, deltas, and alluvial fans will be provided as examples.
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Learning goals:
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Understand the background fundamentals for sediment transport.
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Develop knowledge of contemporary sedimentation issues.
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Apply knowledge of mathematics to scientific and engineering problems related to sediment transport.
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Analyze and interpret sedimentation data.
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Evaluate and solve sediment-related engineering problems.
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Create technical skills and advanced tools for engineering practices in sediment transport.
Picture sources (from left to right):
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Julien, P. Y. (2010). Erosion and sedimentation. Cambridge university press.
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Ke, W. T., Wang, W. L., Liu, H. H., Chang, J. Y., Huang, Y. C., & Capart, H. (2019). Rapid infill of Wushe Reservoir, Central Taiwan: Ten years of field observations. In 3rd International Workshop on Sediment Bypass Tunnels.
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​Romans, B. (2009, April 20). Beautiful sediment plumes in the Gulf of Mexico. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2009/04/beautiful-sediment-plumes-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/
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CIVE300 Fluid Mechanics
Expected to be offered: Fall 2025​​​​
This is an introductory course to the fundamentals of fluid mechanics. The course will cover topics of fluid properties, statics, kinematics, and dynamics of fluid motion, including viscous and gravitational effects.
More details are coming soon.​
CIVE680 Mixing and Transport in Environmental Flows
Expected to be offered: Spring 2026​​​​
This course will introduce physical processes involved in the transport of pollutants by water, including turbulent diffusion and longitudinal dispersion in rivers, pipes, lakes, and the ocean; diffusion in turbulent jets, buoyant jets, and plumes. Environmental flows will be systematically analyzed with scaling, dimensional analysis, and turbulent boundary-layer theory, leading to integral methods for solving flows such as contaminant plumes, density currents, thermal pollution, lake stratification, and salt wedges in estuaries. Integral methods will be developed to obtain engineering solutions, and numerical modeling of multiple environmental boundary-layer flows will be presented with the help of numerical tools developed for research and teaching.
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More details are coming soon.​