 | This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. (July 2020) |
Wash load is similar to a suspended load, but wash load sediment never interacts with the bed load. All of the sediment in the wash load stays suspended in the water throughout the channel[1] (this concept has been debated).[2] Wash load refers to a river's ability to move sediment through a channel.
Hans Albert Einstein described wash load as "if the sediment is added to the upstream end of a concrete channel and the channel is swept clean, and the sediment has not left any trace in the channel".[3]
The sediments in the wash load are generally smaller than .0625 mm. What determines the wash load is the relationship between the size of the bed load and the size of the particles that never settle in the "fine sediment load" or wash load.
- ^ Wickert, Andrew. "Sediment in rivers and modes of sediment transport". GeomorphOnline. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
- ^ Khullar, Narinder K.; Kothyari, Umesh C.; Ranga Raju, Kittur G. (August 2010). "Suspended Wash Load Transport of Nonuniform Sediments". Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 136 (8): 534–543. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000223. ISSN 0733-9429.
- ^ Woo, Hyoseop S.; Julien, Pierre Y.; Richardson, Everett V. (1986). "Washload and Fine Sediment Load". Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 112 (6): 541–545. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(1986)112:6(541). ISSN 0733-9429.