Sediment transport capacity of tidal currents and waves

A lot of estuaries and coastal regions in China are covered with silts and muds, whichare easily suspended and transported under the joint action of tidal currents and windwaves. Therefore, the study on the sediment transport capacity of both tidal currents andwind waves is of theoretical and practical significance. However, because of the extremecomplexity of the problem, the studies in the past were limited to the empirical analyses,and the theoretical exposition was not given yet. In establishing most empirical formulas,the orbital velocity of waves was added to the velocity of the tidal currents in order to ex-