DEPENDENCE OF THE CERC FORMULA K COEFFICIENT ON GRAIN SIZE

摘要

The development of the CERC longshore sediment transport equation is discussed, and a simple relationship between the K coefficient in the CERC formula and grain size is presented as Equation 8. An application of this formula at a site study in Barrow, AK is presented to show how the formula can be used to confirm other estimates of K. Because of the large amount of scatter in the field data, this relationship should only be used to provide initial transport rate estimates, and should only be employed within its range of grain size calibration.