1st Edition

Impact of Improved Operation and Maintenance on Cohesive Sediment Transport in Gezira Scheme, Sudan

By Ishraga S. Osman Copyright 2018
200 Pages
by CRC Press

200 Pages
by CRC Press

Irrigated agriculture remains to be the main option to boost the economy in Sudan in general. It can rise the living standard of the majority of the population; particularly those who are attached to farming and livestock. With the expected increase in population in the next decades, water management of large irrigation systems will become a key issue to increase productivity and assure future... Read more

Cohesive sediment transport

Sediment transport under non equilibrium conditions

Overview of cohesive sediment transport models

Data collection and scheme analysis

Water level measurement

Flow measurement and calibration of measuring structures

Numerical model development

Effect of sediment on the hydrodynamic behaviour of irrigation canals

Effect of different operation scenarios on the sedimentation

Sediment management

Biography

Ishraga S. Osman is a lecturer at the Civil Engineering Department, University of Khartoum, Sudan. She worked as researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Water Resources, Sudan, from 2003 till 2009. She is engaged in a number of projects and became a member of the River Morphology Cluster of the Nile Basin Capacity Building Network. She is involved in the "Nile Basin Reservoir Sedimentation Prediction and Mitigation project" in addition to several studies related to water management in irrigation canals, assessment of irrigation performance and sediment transport studies. She engaged in teaching, research, consultancy and supervision of BSc theses