This
page provides access to course notes I designed for, and used in,
courses in fluvial geomorphology and open-channel fluid mechanics in
the Department of Geography and in the Department of Earth Sciences at
Simon Fraser University. The notes were last used in 2009.
Although
I am releasing these notes to the public domain for the benefit of
colleagues and students who might find them useful, they are protected
by copyright that must be respected. No part of the material may
be reproduced for distribution without my permission.
1. RIVERS (a third-year undergraduate course in fluvial geomorphology)
Chapter 1: Introduction: the importance of rivers
Chapter 2: Hydrology and the size of a river
Chapter 3: River hydraulics and the channel
Chapter 4: Sediment transport
Chapter 5: Channel morphology and planform
Chapter 6: Floodplains: formation and sedimentology
Chapter 7: Rivers: environmental change and management
The fluid mechanics notes to follow essentially are an incomplete draft and are to be used at your own risk!
2. FLUID MECHANICS (a third-year undergraduate course in open-channel fluid mechanics for earth scientists)
Chapter 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 2: The energy equation for open-channel flow
Chapter 3: The momentum equation for open-channel flow
Chapter 4: Mean flow and resistance in open-cannel flow
Chapter 5: The nature of turbulence and velocity distributions in rivers
Chapter 6: Sediment transport
Chapter 7: Channel form