Flume Hydraulics and Sediment Transport Lab

Leonard Sklar

San Francisco State University

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Summary

This exercise is intended to help link the observations of water and sediment motion that student made in the laboratory flume with the theory discussed in lecture.

Fluvial, Modeling/Physical Experiments | College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

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This exercise is intended to help link the observations of water and sediment motion that student made in the laboratory flume with the theory discussed in lecture. Students use the measurements made to ask some basic questions about what happened in the flume as the discharge was varied by a factor of two.

Designed for a geomorphology course