Sedtrans05 is a sediment transport model for continental shelf and estuaries. It predicts the sediment transport at one location as function water depth, sediment type, current and waves (single point model). It is described in Neumeier et al. (2008).

Sedtrans05 was developed by Urs Neumeier¹ ³, Christian Ferrarin²,  Carl Amos¹ and Georg Umgiesser² at (¹) School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton Oceanographic Centre, University of Southampton, and (²) ISMAR-CNR (Istituto di Scienze Marine - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) Venice. (³) present address: Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (ISMER), Rimouski, Québec. Sedtrans05 is the latest version of Sedtrans, which history started in the early 1980s. The two previous versions, Sedtrans92 and Sedtrans96, were developed at the Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and described in Li & Amos (1995) and Li & Amos (2001), respectively.

Sedtrans05 is published as free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later version. It can be redistributred and/or modified under the term of this licence. The source code is available from this page. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The user should be in addition familiar with the equations used and their limitations.

Sedtrans05 consists of computations routines, which are written in Fortran77, and different interfaces to access theses routines and managed data input/output.

Fortran77 routines (with command line interface and batch file processing)
See the included readme.txt file and the Manual for instructions.

• source files (82 KB)
• compiled for DOS/Microsoft Windows (202 KB)
• Manual (version 1.06) (PDF file, 206 KB)

Graphic User Interface for Microsoft Windows (recommended for teaching purpose or processing only a few cases)
See the included readme.txt file for installation instructions. See the help file for how to use the program.
Here are some screenshots of the program: main window, sensibility analysis (result variations as function of one variable input parameter), profiles of velocity and SSC.

• set-up files (version 1.05) (1.8 MB) There was a bug in version 1.04, which should be replaced by this one.
• source files of Visual Basic interface (245 KB)
• source files for dll (58 KB)

Matlab function (useful if data are already in Matlab)
See the included readme.txt and sedtrans05m.m files for instructions.

• compiled mex file for Matlab on Microsoft Windows (71 KB)
• source files (58 KB)

Reports of problems, comments and suggestions should be sent to Urs Neumeier,
e-mail: urs_neumeier "at" uqar.qc.ca    (replace "at" by @ )

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Références

Description of Sedtrans05:

Neumeier U., Ferrarin C., Amos C.L., Umgiesser G. & Li M.Z. (2008) Sedtrans05: An improved sediment-transport model for continental shelves and coastal waters with a new algorithm for cohesive sediments. Computer & Geosciences. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.007

Description of Sedtrans96:

Li M.Z. & Amos C.L. (2001) SEDTRANS96: the upgraded and better calibrated sediment-transport model for continental shelves. Computer & Geosciences, 27, 619-645. doi:10.1016/S0098-3004(00)00120-5

Description of Sedtrans92:

Li M.Z. & Amos C.L. (1995) SEDTRANS92: a sediment transport model for continental shelves. Computer & Geosciences, 21, 533-554. doi:10.1016/0098-3004(94)00096-D