It is evident, that for a number of ecological and technical problems in rivers and lakes a better knowledge of sediment transport and sedimentation is needed together with the ability to predict and simulate sediment behaviour.

I. Turbulence, Mainly its Non-Local Aspects.- Some mathematical contributions to the understanding of turbulence.- Nonlocality in turbulence.- Effect of a roughness transition on turbulent structures in the outer layer.- Stokes flows at infinite Rayleigh number.- Turbulent boundary layers over compliant walls: Low-dimensional models and direct simulations.- The energetics and the heat and mass transfer in unsteady stratified turbulence.- II. Turbulence and Sediment Transport, Turbulence and Sedimentation.- The probability of sediment movement at the threshold of motion and time dependent fluid processes.- Turbulence dynamics in a two-phase flow.- Investigation of particle size distribution in turbulent open channel flow.- Entrainment of large particles from granular bed protections under low-mobility transport conditions.- Interaction between turbulent open-channel flow and pressure fluctuations in surface gravel layer.- Two-phase flow analysis of sediment velocity.- Experimental measurement of sediment suspension and particle kinetic stress transport within a horizontal channel flow.- III. Turbulent Structures and Sediment Transport.- Turbulent structure of excited axisymmetric impinging jet.- Resuspension by droplets.- Particle resuspension by an impacting vortex ring.- IV. Two-Phase Flows.- On the effects of Stokes, Richardson, and stability numbers in persistent and accelerating vortices.- Centrifugal sedimentation processes in suspensions — fundamentals and challenges of efficient simulation.- On the one-dimensional flow approximation in sedimentation processes.- Particle swarms settling in calm water.- Flow of media with high nanoparticles’ concentrations.- V. Self Organization in Sedimentation Processes.- The effect of homogeneous isotropic turbulence on thesettling of heavy particles.- Numerical investigation of two-way coupling mechanisms in dilute, particle laden flows.- Statistics of turbulence — induced fluctuations of particle concentration.- Numerical simulation of the coherent structures in a homogeneous sedimenting suspension.- Simulation of particle flow using particle methods. A p3m algorithm for charged particulates.- VI. Self Organization in Sediment Transport.- LDV, PIV and LES investigation of flow over a fixed dune.- Sediment continuity for rivers with non-uniform sediment, dunes, and bed load transport.- The self-organization of ripples towards two-dimensional forms.- An integro-differential model for the dynamics of aeolian sand ripples.- Simulation of sedimentation and mixing in deeply-submerged gravity currents.- VII. Problems Related to Field Measurements and Inputs Needed for Numerical Models.- River braiding in relation to unsteady water and sediment transport.- On the validity and limits of continuous-phase modelling of sediment transport in estuaries and coastal zones.- Modeling the hydraulics and erosion process in breach formation due to overtopping.- Grain-size specific suspended sediment transport and flow resistance in large sand-bed rivers.- Transport thresholds in gravel-bed rivers.- Advancements in sediment transport investigations using quantitative imaging techniques.- A Lid-driven Elongated Annular Flume (LEAF) for the determination of sediment transport properties.- Petroleum patch transport in marine and coastal zones.- VIII. Measuring Techniques.- Velocity derivatives in turbulent flow obtained from 3D-PTV measurements.- Low coherence techniques for imaging in multiphase flows.- Keyword Index.- Author Index.

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