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Similarity in Sediment Transport

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Consider the flow in a channel consisting of erodible granular material. The shear stress τ o acting on the flow boundary varies along the wetted perimeter in a manner shown schematically by the τ o -diagram in Fig. 6.1.

FIG. 6.1

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Yalin, M.S. (1971). Similarity in Sediment Transport. In: Theory of Hydraulic Models. Macmillan Civil Engineering Hydraulics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00245-0_6

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