Discusses the fundamental principles of sediment transport in the geophysical context of rivers and is intended as both a course textbook and as a guide for the... » 

Discusses the fundamental principles of sediment transport in the geophysical context of rivers and is intended as both a course textbook and as a guide for the practical engineer. This book begins by describing phenomena such as bed load and suspension transport from a classical perspective by applying the mean wall shear stress approach. «