Bed-Load Sediment Transport Formulae Dimensionless Quantities qb q* = ( s 1) gd 3

(dimensionless bed flux) (dimensionless shear stress; or Shields stress)

( s 1) gd

d =d
*

( s 1) g
2

1/ 3

(dimensionless particle diameter)

Bed-Load Transport Formulae Reference Meyer-Peter and Muller (1948) Formula q * = 8( * Comments The original paper assumed * crit = 0.047

crit

3/ 2

Einstein-Brown (Brown, 1950) Yalin (1963)

K exp(0.391 / * ) * < 0.182 q* = 0.465 3 * 40 K * 0.182 1 q * = 0.635r * [1 ln(1 + r )] r

K=

2 36 36 + 3 3 3 d* d*
* *
crit

r=

1,
*
crit

Van Rijn (1984)

q* =

0.053

d*
Nielsen (1992)

0.3

* *
crit

1) 2.1

( s / ) 0.4 His equation 22. There are some variants and restrictions on parameters.

= 2.45

q * = 12(

crit

Critical Shear Stress Van Rijn (1984):

0.24d * d* 4 0.64 0.14d * 4 < d * 10 0.1 0.04d * 10 < d * 20 0.29 0.013d * 20 < d * 150 0.056 d * > 150
0.30 1 + 1 .2 d * + 0.055 [1 exp(0.020d * )]
1

crit

Soulsby (1997):
*
crit

Means of Estimating the Bed Shear Stress (i) Normal-flow relationship = gRh S (Rh = h for a wide channel.)

(ii) Assumed log-law velocity profile U av = u2, u = h ln( ) 1 z0

Variables qb = bed flux (volume rate of transport per unit length of surface) b = bed shear stress d = particle diameter s = sediment density = fluid density s (= s/ ) = relative density g = acceleration due to gravity = kinematic viscosity Rh = hydraulic radius h = water depth S = channel slope u = friction velocity (defined by b = u 2 ) z0 = roughness length = von Karman constant (0.41) Uav = average velocity

References Brown, C.B., 1950, Sediment Transport, in Engineering Hydraulics, Ch. 12, Rouse, H. (ed.), Wiley. Einstein, H.A., 1942, Formulae for transportation of bed-load, Trans. ASCE, 107, 561-577. Nielsen, P., 1992, Coastal Bottom Boundary Layers and Sediment Transport, World Scientific. Meyer-Peter, E. and Muller, R, 1948, Formulas for bed-load transport, Rept 2nd Meeting Int. Assoc. Hydraul. Struct. Res., Stockholm, 39-64. Soulsby, R., 1997, Marine Sands, Thomas Telford. Van Rijn, L.C., 1984, Sediment transport, Part I: Bed load transport, ASCE J. Hydraulic Engineering, 110, 1431-1456. Yalin, M.S., 1963, An expression for bed-load transportation, Proc. ASCE, 89, 221-250.