17th International Conference
Transport & Sedimentation
of Solid Particles

September 22-25, 2015
Delft, The Netherlands
A program of the conference
The venue of the conference is Deltares (Boussinesqweg 1, Delft)
Monday september 21st
16:00Start pre-registration + drinks at Deltares (Boussinesqweg 1, Delft)
18:00End registration
Tuesday september 22nd
08:00Shuttle bus leaves city centre (Bus is located at the Oude Langedijk near the New Church)
08:15Start registration at Deltares (Boussinesqweg 1, Delft)
08:45Opening speech by Theun Baller, dean of the faculty of 3me of Delft University of Technology
08:55Opening by the principal organizer and the TS17 chairman, Jerzy Sobota and Cees van Rhee
09:00Keynote Speech about the work of Ken Wilson by Anders Sellgren, Allan Thomas and Robert Visintainer
09:30Tribute speech for Ed Wasp by Allan Thomas
09:40-10:40Session I: Non-Newtonian Free Surface Flow (Chairman: Lionel Pullum)
09:40-10:00Sadegh Javadi, Paul Slatter, Behnam Pirouz, Rahul Gupta, Sati Bhattacharya:
The Laminar, Turbulent and Transitional Free Surface Flow of Non-Newtonian Suspensions
10:00-10:20Tim Fitton:
A Note on Non-Newtonian Laminar/Turbulent Transition
10:20-10:40Christine Kabwe, Rainer Haldenwang, Veruscha Fester and Raj Chhabra:
Transitional Non-Newtonian Flow in Half Round Channels
10:40-11:10Coffee break
11:10-12:30Session II: Hydraulic Transport in Pipes I (Chairman: Rainer Haldenwang)
11:10-11:30Trevor Jones:
Swirl Pipes and the Two-Layer Model
11:30-11:50Martin Huard, Aaron Fuhr, Kofi Freeman Adane and Ben Fotty:
Particle Tracer Visualisation and Velocity Measurements in Aerated Dense Horizontal Slurry Pipeline
11:50-12:10CAO Bin, XIA Jian-xin, Jerzy Sobota:
The Motion and Resistance Loss of Coarse-Grained Slurry in Horizontal Pipeline
12:10-12:30Peter Goosen:
Analysis of Friction Pressure Gradients During Slurry Pipeline Restart
12:30-13:20Lunch
13:20-14:20Lab tour in the Deltares Laboratory
14:20-15:40Session III: Dredging Engineering (Chariman: Jerzy Sobota)
14:20-14:40Jort van Wijk and Pieter Smit:
Design and internal Flow Simulation of A Vertical Hydraulic Transport System for Mining Manganese Nodules
14:40-15:00Cees van Rhee, Rik Bisschop:
Numerical Simulation of High-Speed Sediment Entrainment
15:00-15:20Sape Miedema:
A Method to Compare Slurry Transport Models
15:20-15:40Arno Talmon:
Stationary Waves Measured Behind A Bend in Heterogenous Transport
15:40-16:00Coffee break
16:00-17:20Session IV: Sediment Transport in Rivers I (Chairman: Pavel Vlasak)
16:00-16:20Givi Gavardashvili:
Predicting the Vulnerable Areas of the Mountain Riverbeds by Considering Field and Laboratory Experiments
16:20-16:40Satish Kumar, Deo Raj Kaushal:
Modeling of Sediment Yield with Flood Discharge From Surrounding Catchments into the Power Plants
16:40-17:00Mirali Mohammadi, Mir-Jafar-Sadegh Safari, Babak Vaheddoost and Hafzullah Aksoy:
A Decision Tree Self-Cleansing Model for Stormwater Drainage Systems
17:00-17:20Štěpán Zrostlík, Vojtěch Bareš, Jan Krupička, Tomáš Picek, Václav Matoušek:
Comparison of Transport and Friction of Mono-Sized and Two-Species Sediment in Upper Plane Bed Regime
17:20Shuttle Bus to city centre (Beestenmarkt)
18:00-19:30Drink at the Beestenmarkt (Café Vlaanderen)
Wednesday september 23rd
08:30Shuttle bus leaves city centre (Bus is located at the Oude Langedijk near the New Church)
08:45Shuttle bus arives at Deltares (Boussinesqweg 1, Delft)
09:00-10:20Session V: Pumps for Slurry Transport (Chairman: Cees van Rhee)
09:00-09:20Anders Sellgren, Robert Visintainer, Aleks Roudnev:
Centrifugal Pump Performance Derating for Coarse Particle and Highly Concentrated Settling Slurries
09:20-09:40Johann Dueck:
On the Conditions of Clogging in a Hydrocyclone
09:40-10:00Ivan Myznikov, Andrey Nadtochiy, Valentin Dubovoy, Igor Tverdokhleb:
Optimization of the Hydraulic Part of Slurry Pumps To increase Efficiency and Reduce Abrasive Wear
10:00-10:20REN Huatang, CAI Chao, XIA Jianxin:
Simulation and Analysis of Flow Field and Coarse Particle Movement in Lifting Pump of Deep-Sea Mining System
10:20-10:50Coffee break
10:50-12:10Session VI: Deposition of Coarse Particles in Non-Newtonian Open Channel Flow (Chariman: Behnam Pirouz)
10:50-11:10Tim Fitton:
A Deposit Velocity Equation for Open Channels and Pipes
11:10-11:30Walther van Kesteren, Tom van de Ree, Arno Talmon, Miguel de Lucas Pardo, Dirk Luger, Luca Sittoni:
A Large-Scale Experimental Study of High Density Slurries Deposition on Beaches
11:30-11:50Matt Treinen and Justin Jacobs:
The Applicability of the Eulerian-Eulerian CFD Approach Using Granular Kinetic Theory To Predict Particle Settling and Migration in Viscoplastic Fluids
11:50-12:10Luca Sittoni, Arno Talmon, Jan van Kester, Rob Uittenbogaard:
Latest Numerical Developments for the Prediction of Beaching Flow and Segregating Behavior of Thick Non-Newtonian Mixtures
12:10-13:20Lunch
13:20-16:30Excursion to the Maeslandkering
16:30-17:30Bus to Rotterdam
17:30-20:30Boat trip with dinner
22:00Back at Delft city centre
The bus will stop both at Deltares and at Delft city centre.
Thursday september 24th
08:30Shuttle bus leaves city centre (Bus is located at the Oude Langedijk near the New Church)
08:45Shuttle bus arives at Deltares (Boussinesqweg 1, Delft)
09:00-10:40Session VII: Hydraulic Transport in Pipes II (Chairman: Anders Sellgren)
09:00-09:20Pavel Vlasak, Zdenek Chara, Jiri Konfrst:
Conveying of Coarse Particles in inclined Pipes
09:20-09:40Ardalan Sadighian, Seyed Hashemi, Ryan Spelay, Randall Gillies and Sean Sanders:
Off-Bottom Solids Concentration Measurements: the Possible Implications of Wilson’s Near-Wall Lift Force on Erosive Pipe Wear
09:40-10:00Allan Thomas:
A Modification of the Wilson & Judge Deposit Velocity Equation, Extending its Applicability to Finer Particles and Larger Pipe Sizes
10:00-10:20Artur Bartosik:
Prediction of Heat Transfer Coefficient in Turbulent Slurry Flow With Enhanced Damping of Turbulence
10:20-10:50Coffee break
10:50-12:10Session VIII: Non-Newtonian Pipe Flow (Chairman: Tim Fitton)
10:50-11:10Václav Matoušek, Vojtĕch Pĕník, Lionel Pullum, Andrew Chryss:
Experimental Study of Bed Friction in Stratified Flow with Viscoplastic Carrier in Pipe
11:10-11:30Andrew Sutherland, Rainer Haldenwang, Raj Chhabra and Emile van den Heever:
Selecting the Best Rheological and Pipe Turbulent Flow Prediction Models for Non-Newtonian Fluids-Use of Rmse and R2 vs. Aic
11:30-11:50Murray Rudman, Jagmohan Singh, Hugh M. Blackburn, Andrew Chryss, Lachlan J. Graham and Lionel Pullum:
The Importance of Rheology Shear Rate Range for DNS of Turbulent Flow of Yield Stress Fluids
11:50-12:10Lionel Pullum, Andrew Chryss, Lachlan Graham, Václav Matoušek and Vojtĕch Pĕník:
Modelling Turbulent Transport of Solids in Non-Newtonian Carrier Fluids Applicable to Tailings Disposal
12:10-13:10Lunch
13:10-14:30Session IX: Detailed Studies on Sediment Transport (Chairman: Mirali Mohammadi)
13:10-13:30Mohsen Cheraghi, Seifeddine Jomaa, Graham C. Sander, D. A. Barry:
Hysteresis Effects in Splash Sediment Transport
13:30-13:50Maciej Pawlak, Ryszard Błażejewski, Danuta Drelak:
Settling Velocities of Simple Bead Agglomerates at Low Reynolds Numbers
13:50-14:10Jindřich Dolanský, Zdeněk Chára, Pavel Vlasák, Bohuš Kysela:
Simulation of Particle Saltation Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method
14:10-14:30Václav Matoušek, Vojtěch Bareš, Jan Krupička, Tomáš Picek, Štěpán Zrostlík:
Effect of Grain Density on Plane Bed Friction
14:30-14:50Coffee break
14:50-16:10Session X: Sediment Transport in Rivers II (Chairman: Václav Matoušek)
14:50-15:10Mirali Mohammadi, Fatemeh Vojoudi, Farzad Jabbary:
Empirically Boundary Shear Stress Coupled with Evolutionary Algorithms in a V-Shaped Channel
15:10-15:30Maarten van der Wal, Mirjam van der Mheen and Gijsbert Tweehuijsen:
Some Aspects of the Transport of Plastic Particles in Rivers
15:30-15:50Ali Ranjbar, Mirali Mohammadi, Vahid Hasanzadeh:
Prediction Finding Optimum Location and Recharge Rate of Wells to Prevent Saltwater intrusion into the Coastal Aquifers
15:50-16:10Viacheslav Berman, Stepan Kril, Jerzy Sobota, Pavel Vlasak, Emil Bournaski:
Some Results of Experimental and Theoretical Modeling of Hydrotransport of High Density Bulk Materials
16:10-16:20Closing remarks
16:20Shuttle Bus to Dredging laboratory at the Delft Univeristiy of Technology
16:40-17:40Lab tour at the Dredging lab of the Delft Univeristiy of Technology
17:40Shuttle bus to city centre
Friday september 25th (Organised by Delteres)
Morning Additional free workshop on tailings deposition and slurry dynamics
Lunch
End of conference