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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. |
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Short Course on Deepwater Sedimentary Processes, ExxonMobil, July 10-14, 2006December 11-12, 2005
Turbidity Currents and Submarine Debris Flows
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Summer Short Course on Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Theory, Experiments and Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 12-23, 2006
Hydraulic geometry of sand-bed rivers
Brief Introduction to hydraulics and sediment transport of sand-bed rivers
Morphodynamics of delta evolution in sand-bed rivers
Large-scale morphodynamics of deltas, with application to the Mississippi Delta
VBA program in Excel for computing evolution of deltas of sand-bed rivers
Excel spreadsheet for computing backwater curves
Introduction to coding in Visual Basic for Applications in Excel
Basic data on hydraulic geometry of sand-bed rivers
Preprint of a paper illustrating the application of large scale delta morphodynamics to the Wax Lake Delta, a subdelta of the Mississippi River
Informal presentation on interesting aspects of turbidity currents and the morphologies they creats
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Short Course on Rivers Laramie, Wyoming, February 2006
BWyBankfullDischargeEstimator.ppt Bankfull Discharge Estimator
Brief Introduction to Hydraulics and Sediment Transport
Bankfull Characteristics of Rivers
Universal Relations for Bankfull Characteristics of Alluvial Gravel-bed Rivers
Bankfull Characteristics of Rivers on Titan
Basic data on bankfull characteristics of gravel-bed rivers
Floodplain Erosion
Response of the Fly-Strickland River System to Rising Sea Level
Quasi-Universal Relations For Bankfull Hydraulic Geometry Of Single-Thread Gravel-Bed Rivers
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Short Course on Morphology, Morphodynamics and Ecology of Mountain Rivers Berkeley, California, December 11-12, 2005
Hydraulic Geometry of Mountain Rivers
Hydraulics of Mountain Rivers
MountainRivers1DMorphUniform.ppt Morphodynamics of Aggradation/Degradation in Mountain Rivers with Uniform Sediment
Morphodynamics of Aggradation/Degradation in Mountain Rivers with Sediment Mixtures
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Summer Short Course on Coastal Morphodynamics Renesse, the Netherlands, June, 2002
Introduction to morphodynamics; sediment properties; modes of sediment transport
Conservation of bed sediment; overview of fluid mechanics
Threshold of motion; skin friction and form drag; relations for bedload transport
Sediment suspension
Sediment transport in wave and wave-current boundary layers
References for the five lectures
RenesseRouseSpreadsheetFun.xls Spreadsheet illustrating Rouse-Vanoni profiles for suspended sediment
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Grand Combin Summer School, Geomorphological Fluid Dynamics St. Oyen, Valle d'Aosta, Italy, June, 2000
Introduction to morphodynamics
Morphodynamics of cyclic steps
Morphodynamics of turbidity currents
Notes on sediment suspension
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Summer Short Course on Environmental Fluid Dynamics CISM (International Centre for Mechanical Sciences) Udine, Italy, June, 1998
Derivation of St. Venant shallow water equations
Relations for sediment continiuity
Relations for bedload and suspended load
Alternate bars and alluvial fans
Introduction to turbidity currents
An application: sediment-feed and recirculating flumes
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