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Description of the Book: Cohesive Sediments
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There is an alarming tendency today to assume that something calculated by a computer must be correct, yet the phrase ‘garbage in, garbage out (gigo) is possibly nowhere more (generally) appropriate than in computer modelling of cohesive sediment behaviour. The behaviour of ‘mud is highly complex and one only needs to look at a sample under a microscope to see why — the variety of particle shapes, not to mention the presence of living organisms, make it a substance with properties virtually unique to its situation which even change with time. For many years most researchers tended to avoid it, preferring to study sand and gravel, but a dedicated few tackled it and found a forum for discussing their work in the first Cohesive Sediments Workshop in Florida in 1980. The workshop met about every three years resulting in publication of some of the most definitive papers on the subject. By 1994 it was time to recognise the extensive research being carried on in Europe by holding the workshop in that region. Intercoh 94 (the 4th Nearshore and Estuarine Cohesive Sediment Transport Conference) drew together about 100 of the worlds leading researchers in the field. The resulting papers, presented in this volume, truly represent the definitive state of the art on the measurement and modelling of mud properties today.
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Details of the Book: Cohesive SedimentsAuthor: Neville Burt, R. Parker, Jacqueline Watts Number Of Pages: 474 Binding: Hardcover ISBN-10: 0716724375 ISBN-13: 9780471970989 Language: English Amazon Sales Rank: 1433285 Publication Date: 1999 Publisher: Wiley Package Dimensions: 3.23 x 24.99 x 17.44 inches |
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