Table of Contents	6
	Preface	12
	1 Introduction	13
	1.1 Why a New Book on Sediment Transport	13
	1.2 The Phenomenon and its Main Parameters	16
	1.3 The Topography of a Drainage Area	24
	1.4 Modeling the Phenomenon	26
	2 The Classical Representation of the Sediment Transport	31
	2.1 The Representation of the Flow	32
	3 Turbulence and the Statistical Aspects of the Sediment Transport	45
	3.1 The Incipient Motion	45
	3.2 Statistical Bed-Load Models	50
	3.3 Transport in Suspension	61
	3.4 The Total Sediment Transport	77
	3.5 Critical Remarks	81
	4 Saturation and Asymptotic States	85
	4.1 Sediment Transport as a Dynamical Process	85
	4.2 Hypotheses of Extremum Principle	87
	4.3 The Expanded Description of Grass	92
	4.4 Limitations	94
	5 Problematic Issues	97
	5.1 Assumptions and Consequences of Rheological Nature	97
	5.2 Nonlocal Properties of the Flow Field	105
	5.3 Nonlinear Processes	112
	6 Scales	119
	6.1 The River as a System and Its Hydrological Scales	119
	6.2 The Scaling of the Turbulent Flow	120
	7 Roughness and Roughness Elements	145
	7.1 Similarity Consideration in the Range of Constant Wall Shear Stress	145
	7.2 Sand Roughness	147
	7.3 d-Roughness	149
	7.4 Real Roughness	151
	8 Flow Separation, Topology, and Vortical Dynamics	155
	8.1 Flow Separation	155
	8.2 Basics in Topology	157
	8.3 Separation Bubbles	162
	8.4 Vortex Tubes and Vortex Interactions	168
	9 Fine-Sand Dynamics	173
	9.1 Stable Beds and Incipient Motion	173
	9.2 Sediment Stripes as a Bed Form	178
	9.3 The Arrowhead-like Bed Forms	180
	9.4 The Ripple Formation	181
	9.5 Dunes of Fine Sand	194
	9.6 Antidunes	210
	10 Mixtures of Medium Grain Sizes	211
	10.1 Armoring	211
	10.2 Turbulence Dominated Sediment Transport	215
	10.3 Sediment Transport Dominated Separation	215
	10.4 Induced Secondary Flows	218
	10.5 Bed Forms Due to Sorting Effects	222
	11 Gravel Beds	231
	11.1 Transport Processes on Gravel Beds	231
	11.2 Separation Versus Turbulence	234
	11.3 Bed Forms in Gravel Beds	235
	11.4 Complexity and Outlooks	236
	12 Data and Strategies to Calculate Sediment Transport	239
	12.1 The Input Parameters	241
	12.2 Coherent Structures	252
	12.3 Turbulent Flows	254
	12.4 Flow with Separations	255
	12.5 Suspended Load	259
	12.6 The Significance of Experiments for the Simulations	261
	13 References	263
	14. Appendix	281
	14.1 Albert Einstein’s Letter of Recommendation for His Son	281
	14.2 Tables	283
	14.3 Graphs	286
	14.4 Symbols	289
	Subject Index	293
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