Week 1: Course Introduction and Review

· Fluid properties

· Fluid statics

· Review of open channel flow

Readings: van Rijn, 1990 Chapters 1, 2, 3 (see also Dingman, Chapters 4, 5).

Homework 1: Fluid statics and open channel flow problems.

Week 2: Fluid Kinematics and Invicid Fluid Dynamics

· Streamlines and streamtubes

· Fluid accelerations, deformations, vorticity

· Equations of continuity and momentum

· Euler and Bernoulli equations

Readings: van Rijn, Chapters 4, 5 (p. 28-38 only) & Dingman, Chapter 7.

Homework 2: Application of the energy equation to flow in rivers.

Week 3: Viscous Fluid Dynamics

· Navier-Stokes equations

· Reynolds averaging

Readings: van Rijn, 1990 Chapter 5 (p. 38 - end) (see also Furbish, Chapter 12).

No New Homework

Week 4: Turbulence

· The onset of turbulence

· The nature of turbulent flow

· Production and dissipation

· Coherent flow structures

No Homework

Readings: Allen, 1985 Chapter 6 (see also Nezu and Nakagawa, 1993 Chapters 7, 8, 9 & Furbish, Chapter 14).

Reading Seminar 1: Jackson, 1976

Week 5: Steady Uniform ('Normal') Flow in Rivers

· Prandtl’s mixing length hypothesis

· Eddy Viscosity

· Universal velocity equations for boundray layer flows

Readings: van Rijn, Chapter 6 (see also Furbish, Chapter 15).

Homework 3: Velocity profiles in rivers.

Week 6: Steady Non-Uniform Flow in Rivers

· Gradually varied turbulent flow & backwater curves

· Rapidly varied flow

· Subcritical and supercritical flow transitions

· Specific Energy concepts

Readings: van Rijn, Chapter 7; Parker e-book chapter 5.

Homework 4: Calculation of normal and backwater flow.

Week 7: Particle dynamics

· Forces acting on particles (buoyancy, lift, drag)

· Particle settling velocity (Stokes law; Impact law; Dietrich)

· Physics of incipient motion

Readings: Parker e-book, chapter 6; Dietrich, 1982; Buffington and Montgomery, 1997.

Homework 5: Particle Settling.

Week 8 & 9: Bedforms and bedform dynamics

· Morphology and classification

· Bedform related flow resistance

· Bedform initiation

· Bedform morphodynamics

· Flow over bedforms

Readings: Parker e-book chapter 9; Venditti et al., 2006; Best, 1996; Best, 2005.

See also: Southard and Boguchwal, 1990; Venditti, 2007.

Homework 6: Bedforms and bedform dynamics.

Reading Seminar 2: McLean, 1990 (grads) & Jerolmack & Mohrig, 2005 (undergrads)

Week 10: Sediment Transport in Sand-Bedded Rivers

· Bedload transport equations

· Sediment suspension

· Rouse equation

Readings: McLean, 1992 & others TBA.

Homework 7: Sediment transport in a sand-bedded river.

Week 11: Sediment Transport in Gravel-Bedded Rivers

· Mixed size bedload transport equations

· Parker’s model

· Wilcock’s model

Readings: Parker e-book Chapter 18; Parker, in press; Wilcock and Crowe, 2003.

Homework 8: Sediment entrainment and transport in gravel-bedded rivers.

Week 12: Morphodynamic Modeling of Rivers

· Exner equation

· A simple morphodynamic model

· Relations for the conservation of bed sediment

Readings: Parker, Paola, Leclair, 2000; Parker e-book chapters 1, 4 ;

See also: Parker e-book chapters 14, 17

Homework 9: Aggradation/degradation in a gravel-bedded river.

Week 13: Flow and sediment transport in river bends

Reading Seminar #3: Dietrich & Whiting, 1989