COHESIVE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESSES

The general aim of the Project ''Cohesive Sediment'' of the MAST progr amme ''G6 Coastal Morphodynamics'' is to advance the knowledge and mod elling of physical processes related to cohesive sediment in coastal e nvironments. Bette insights are given into deposition modelling, conso lidation theories and associated constitutive relationships, laborator y experiments of liquefaction by waves only or combined waves and curr ents, modelling of flow-sediment interaction and turbulence in the wat er column, and the conduct of laboratory erosion experiments. Short te rm recordings of deposition events, wave effects, consolidation and bo ttom turbulence in muddy environments emphasise the distance which rem ains to be covered in order to understand and predict the processes in the field.