A new book “Sediment Transport Dynamics” authored by Dr. Weiming Wu has been published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press since Nov. 21, 2023. This book focuses on the fundamentals of sediment transport in surface waters. Besides the primary context of river sedimentation, this book extensively covers sediment transport under coexisting waves and currents in coasts and estuaries, as well as turbidity currents in lakes, reservoirs, channels, and the ocean. It also includes special topics emerged in recent years, such as the transport of mixed cohesive and noncohesive sediments, biofilm-coated sediments, and infiltrated sand within gravel and cobble beds. It has 15 chapters: introduction, sediment properties, open channel flows, sediment particle settling, incipient motion, bed forms, bed load, suspended load, total load, cohesive sediments, water-sediment two-phase flows, hyperconcentrated/debris flows, coastal sediment transport, turbidity currents, and physical modeling. It has 646 pages and cites about 1500 references. The text merges classical and new knowledge of sediment transport from various sources in English and non-English literature and includes important contributions made by many scientists and engineers from all over the world.

Dr. Weiming Wu is James K. Edzwald Professor of Water Engineering at Clarkson University, NY, USA. Dr. Wu earned his PhD from Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, China in 1991. He was Lecturer/Associate Professor at his alma mater in 1991–1995; Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Hydromechanics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany in 1995–1997; and a faculty member at the National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering of the University of Mississippi in 1997–2013. His research interests include fundamental sediment transport; hydro- and morphodynamics in rivers, estuaries, coastal waters and uplands; surge and wave attenuation by vegetation; interaction between surface and subsurface flows; free surface flow and sediment transport modeling; dam/levee breach and flood modeling; and water quality and aquatic ecosystem/ecotoxicology modeling. He authored the book “Computational River Dynamics”, published through Taylor & Francis, UK in November 2007. He received a Best Paper Award in 2007 from the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER). He is a fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). He served as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Sediment Research in 2008–2010 and for the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering in 2010–2019, and was Chair of the ASCE Computational Hydraulics Committee (2010–2012), the ASCE Task Committee on Dam/Levee Breaching (2009–2012), and the ASCE Sedimentation Committee (2016–2018). He currently serves as Vice President for WASER.