Unraveling the impact of sediment size distribution on flow-sediment hysteresis in estuarine environments: insights from size-resolved sediment transport modeling

• Published in: Environmental Research Communications Vol. 7; no. 6; pp. 61011 - 61026
• Main Authors: Fang, Zheng, Xu, Fanghua, Zhang, Xueyang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.06.2025
• Subjects: Correlation analysis; Estuaries; estuarine environment; Estuarine environments; Flocculation; flow-sediment hysteresis; Hysteresis; numerical simulation; Prediction models; Sediment transport; Size distribution; size-resolved sediment transport model; Tidal cycles; Tides

Flow-sediment hysteresis, a nonlinear time-lagged relationship between sediment transport and hydrodynamic conditions, is particularly important yet difficult to simulate in tidal estuarine environments. This study introduces a size-resolved sediment transport model to simulate flow-sediment hystere...