Limiting behavior of the probability distribution in Einstein's bed-load formula and its improvement

• Main Authors: Wu, Haoliang, Cheng, Nian-Sheng, Chiew, Yee-Meng
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; Bed-Load Transport; Einstein's Model
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153676
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The bed-load transport rates predicted using Einstein's formula in the low and high transport regimes deviate from the experimental data. The deviation, which becomes significant when the transport rate is extremely low or high, may be solely attributed to the folded Gaussian distribution assum...