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On the different regimes of subaqueous transport

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We review different aspects of subaqueous sediment transport. We discuss the static threshold and its dependency with longitudinal and transverse slopes, as well as cohesion. We describe the different regimes of transport: erosion and momentum limited bed load, and suspended load. In all these cases, we derive the expressions of the saturation flux qsatq_{\rm sat} and the saturation length LsatL_{\rm sat} and discuss their dependencies.

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@article{arxiv.0910.4119,
  title  = {On the different regimes of subaqueous transport},
  author = {B. Andreotti and P. Claudin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4119},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures