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From time to time I teach lectures in intensive short courses.  The notes for some of these courses can be found below.  Click to download the indicated files.

Short Course on Deepwater Sedimentary Processes, ExxonMobil,  July 10-14, 2006December 11-12, 2005

 

ExxonMobilShortCourse06.ppt

Turbidity Currents and Submarine Debris Flows

 

Summer Short Course on Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Theory, Experiments and Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 12-23, 2006

 

SandRiverHydrGeomKarl.ppt

Hydraulic geometry of sand-bed rivers

 

SandRiverHydraulKarl.ppt

Brief Introduction to hydraulics and sediment transport of sand-bed rivers

 

SandRiverAgDegBackwKarl.ppt

Morphodynamics of delta evolution in sand-bed rivers

 

SandRiverMissDeltaKarl.ppt

Large-scale morphodynamics of deltas, with application to the Mississippi Delta

 

RTe-bookAgDegBWChezy.xls

VBA program in Excel for computing evolution of deltas of sand-bed rivers

 

RTe-bookBackwater.xls

Excel spreadsheet for computing backwater curves

 

RTe-bookIntroVBA.xls

Introduction to coding in Visual Basic for Applications in Excel

 

SandBankfullData.xls

Basic data on hydraulic geometry of sand-bed rivers

 

WaxLake.pdf

Preprint of a paper illustrating the application of large scale delta morphodynamics to the Wax Lake Delta, a subdelta of the Mississippi River

 

TurbidityCurrentMinutes.ppt

Informal presentation on interesting aspects of turbidity currents and the morphologies they creats

 

Short Course on Rivers

Laramie, Wyoming, February 2006

 

BWyBankfullDischargeEstimator.ppt

Bankfull Discharge Estimator

 

WyomingHydraulicsSedTrans.ppt

Brief Introduction to Hydraulics and Sediment Transport

 

WyRTe-bookCh3BankfullChar.ppt

Bankfull Characteristics of Rivers

 

WyomingGrail2.ppt

Universal Relations for Bankfull Characteristics of Alluvial Gravel-bed Rivers

 

WyomingGrailTitan.ppt

Bankfull Characteristics of Rivers on Titan

 

WyQuasiUnivBasicData.xls

Basic data on bankfull characteristics of gravel-bed rivers

 

WyFloodplainLauer.ppt

Floodplain Erosion

 

WySeaLevelRise.ppt

Response of the Fly-Strickland River System to Rising Sea Level

 

QuasiBankfull.pdf

Quasi-Universal Relations For Bankfull Hydraulic Geometry Of Single-Thread Gravel-Bed Rivers

 

Short Course on Morphology, Morphodynamics and Ecology of Mountain Rivers

Berkeley, California,  December 11-12, 2005

 

MountainRiversHydraulGeom.ppt

Hydraulic Geometry of Mountain Rivers

 

MountainRiversHydraulics.ppt

Hydraulics of Mountain Rivers

 

MountainRivers1DMorphUniform.ppt

Morphodynamics of Aggradation/Degradation in Mountain Rivers with Uniform Sediment

 

MountainRivers1DMorphMix.ppt

Morphodynamics of Aggradation/Degradation in Mountain Rivers with Sediment Mixtures

 

Summer Short Course on Coastal Morphodynamics

Renesse, the Netherlands, June, 2002

 

Renesse03Lecture1.pdf

Introduction to morphodynamics; sediment properties; modes of sediment transport

 

Renesse03Lecture2.pdf

Conservation of bed sediment; overview of fluid mechanics

 

Renesse03Lecture3.pdf

Threshold of motion; skin friction and form drag; relations for bedload transport

 

Renesse03Lecture4.pdf

Sediment suspension

 

Renesse03Lecture5.pdf

Sediment transport in wave and wave-current boundary layers

 

Renesse03References.pdf

References for the five lectures

 

RenesseRouseSpreadsheetFun.xls

Spreadsheet illustrating Rouse-Vanoni profiles for suspended sediment

 

Grand Combin Summer School, Geomorphological Fluid Dynamics

St. Oyen, Valle d'Aosta, Italy, June, 2000

 

StOyenCh1.pdf

Introduction to morphodynamics

 

StOyenCh2.pdf

Morphodynamics of cyclic steps

 

StOyenCh3.pdf

Morphodynamics of turbidity currents

 

StOyenSuspSed.pdf

Notes on sediment suspension

 

Summer Short Course on Environmental Fluid Dynamics

CISM (International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)  Udine, Italy, June, 1998

 

CISMnot1.pdf

Derivation of St. Venant shallow water equations

 

CISMnot2.pdf

Relations for sediment continiuity

 

CISMnot3.pdf

Relations for bedload and suspended load

 

CISMnot4.pdf

Alternate bars and alluvial fans

 

CISMnot5.pdf

Introduction to turbidity currents

 

CISMnot6.pdf

An application: sediment-feed and recirculating flumes

 

CISMref.pdf

References

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