Preliminary design for dredged material placement physical modeling facilities. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6886815

Soldate, M; Pagenkopf, J R; Morton, M R

The feasibility of performing laboratory experiments to aid in the modification and enhancement of existing numerical models for predicting the physical fate of dredged material discharged into open water is addressed. First, appropriate scaling laws are investigated to determine if prototype dredged material disposal behavior can be accurately simulated in a physical test facility for various cohesive and noncohesive sediments. Information gained from this investigation is used to determine the general design requirements of the test facility. These requirements include the types of equipment and measurement techniques required to monitor rates of cloud entrainment, rates of spreading on the bottom, disposal material properties, suspended sediment concentrations, and other parameters of interest. Typical testing scenarios for various discharge conditions are included.... Disposal, Modeling, Dredged material, Scaling laws, Dredging, Sediment.

• Research Organization: Tetra Tech, Inc., Arlington, VA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6886815
• Report Number(s): AD-A-260186/2/XAB; TR-DRP-92-8
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
DREDGING
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
WATER POLLUTION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
ENTRAINMENT
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
INFORMATION NEEDS
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
SCALING LAWS
SEDIMENTS
TEST FACILITIES
WATER REQUIREMENTS
DEMAND
POLLUTION
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Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-)
990200 - Mathematics & Computers