Selected Publications (1977-)

Davies A.G., 1977.  A mathematical model of sediment in suspension in a uniform reversing tidal flow. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 51, 503-529.

Davies A.G., 1979.  The potential flow over ripples on the seabed. Journal of Marine Research, 37, 4, 743-759.

Davies A.G., 1980.  Field observations of the threshold of sand motion in a transitional wave boundary layer. Coastal Engineering, 4, 1, 23-46.

Davies A.G., 1982.  On the interaction between surface waves and undulations on the seabed. Journal of Marine Research, 40, 2, 331-368.

Davies A.G., 1982.  The reflection of wave energy by undulations on the seabed. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 6, 207-232.

Davies A.G., 1983.  Wave interactions with rippled sand beds. Pp. 1-65 in Physical Oceanography of Coastal and Shelf Seas by B.Johns (ed.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 470pp.

Davies A.G. and A.D. Heathershaw, 1984.  Surface wave propagation over sinusoidally varying topography. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 144, 419-443.

Heathershaw A.D. and A.G. Davies, 1985.  Resonant wave reflection by transverse bedforms  and its relation to beaches and offshore bars. Marine Geology, 62, 321-338.

Davies A.G., 1985.  Observations of the stability of oscillatory flow above the seabed and of sand ripple formation. Continental Shelf Research, 4, 5, 553-580.

Davies A.G., 1985.  Field observations of the threshold of sediment motion by wave action. Sedimentology, 32, 685-704.

Davies A.G., 1986.  A model of oscillatory rough turbulent boundary layer flow. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 23, 353-374.

Davies A.G., 1986.  A numerical model of the wave boundary layer. Continental Shelf Research, 6, 6, 715-739.

Davies A.G., Soulsby R.L. and H.L. King, 1988.  A numerical model of the combined wave and current bottom boundary layer. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, C1, 491-508.

Davies A.G., Guazzelli E. and M. Belzons, 1989.  The propagation of long waves over an undulating bed. Physics of Fluids, A, 1, 1331-1340.

Davies A.G., Barber M.E. and R.L.Soulsby, 1990.  Vertical current structure and bedload sediment transport in a combined wave-current boundary layer flow. Pp. 52-67 in Physics  of Shallow Seas, edited by Wang, H., Wang, J., and Dai, H., China Ocean Press.

Davies, A.G., 1990.  A model of the vertical structure of the wave and current bottom boundary layer. Chapter 10, pp.263-297, in Modeling Marine Systems, Volume II, ed. Davies, A.M., CRC Press, Boca Raton.

O'Hare T.J. and A.G. Davies, 1990.  A laboratory study of sand bar evolution. Journal of Coastal Research, 6, 3, 531-544.

Davies A.G., 1991. Transient effects in wave-current boundary layer flow. Ocean Engineering, 18, 1/2, 75-100.

Murray P.B., Davies A.G. and R.L. Soulsby, 1991.  Sediment pick-up in wave and current flows. Proceedings of EUROMECH  262 Colloquium on Sand Transport in Rivers, Estuaries and the Sea, Wallingford, June 1990, ed. R.L. Soulsby and R. Bettess, A.A.Balkema, Rotterdam, 1, 37-43.

Davies, A.G., 1992.  Modelling the vertical distribution of suspended sediment in combined wave-current flow. Chapter  22 in Dynamics and Exchanges in Estuaries and the Coastal Zone. A.G.U. Coastal and Estuarine Studies, Vol. 40, ed. D. Prandle, 441-466.

O'Hare T.J. and A.G. Davies, 1992.  A new model for surface-wave propagation over undulating topography. Coastal Engineering, 18, 251-266.

O'Hare T.J. and A.G. Davies, 1993.  A comparison of two models for surface-wave propagation  over rapidly-varying topography. Applied Ocean Research, 15, 1-11.

O'Hare T.J. and A.G. Davies, 1993.  Sand bar evolution beneath partially-standing waves: laboratory experiments and model simulations. Continental Shelf Research, 13, 11, 1149-1182.

Block M.E., Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 1994.  Suspension of sand in oscillatory flow above ripples: discrete vortex model and laboratory experiments. Pp. 37-52 in Sediment Transport Mechanisms in Coastal Environments and Rivers, EUROMECH 310. World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore.

Villaret C., Simonin O. and A.G. Davies, 1995.  Suspended sediment transport modelling using a two-phase flow model and a turbulent kinetic energy model. Proceedings of 8th Int. Conf. on Transport and Sedimentation of Solid Particles, Prague, Jan. 1995, B11, 1-7.

Davies A.G., 1995.  Effects of unsteadiness on the suspended sediment flux in collinear wave-current flow. Continental Shelf Research, 15, 8, 949-979.

Rey V., Davies A.G. and M. Belzons, 1995.  On the formation of bars by the action of waves  on an erodible bed: a laboratory study. Journal of Coastal Research, 11, 4, 1180-1194.

Villaret C. and A.G. Davies, 1995.  Modelling sediment-turbulent flow interactions. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 48, 9, 601-609.

Li Z. and A.G. Davies, 1996.  Towards predicting sediment transport in combined wave-current flow. J. Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 122, 4, 157-164.

Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 1997.  Oscillatory flow over rippled beds: Boundary layer structure and wave-induced Eulerian drift. Chapter 6 in Gravity Waves in Water of Finite Depth, ed. J.N. Hunt, Advances in Fluid Mechanics, Computational Mechanics Publications, 215-254.

Davies A.G. and Z. Li, 1997.  Modelling sediment transport beneath regular symmetrical and asymmetrical waves above a plane bed. Continental Shelf Research, 17, 5, 555-582.

Davies A.G., Ribberink J.S., Temperville A. and J.A. Zyserman, 1997.  Comparisons between sediment transport models and observations made in wave and current flows above plane beds. Coastal Engineering, 31, 1-4, 163-198.

Li Z. and A.G. Davies, 1997.  Closure to Discussion of 'Towards predicting sediment transport in combined wave-current flow'. J. Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 123, 6, 363-364.

Malarkey J. and A.G. Davies, 1998.  Modelling wave-current interactions in rough turbulent bottom boundary layers. Ocean Engineering, 25, 2-3, 119-141.

Peet A.H. and  A.G. Davies, 1998.  Convection and diffusion of sediment under large waves. Proceedings of Coastal Dynamics '97, Plymouth, ed. E.B. Thornton, American Society of Civil Engineers, 28-37.

Villaret C. and A.G. Davies, 1998.  Effect of bed roughness on net sediment transport by asymmetrical waves. Proceedings of Coastal Dynamics '97, Plymouth, ed. E.B. Thornton, American Society of Civil Engineers, 235-244.

Li Z. and A.G. Davies, 1998.  Effect of grain size gradation and reference concentration on sediment transport beneath large waves. Proceedings of Coastal Dynamics '97, Plymouth, ed. E.B. Thornton, American Society of Civil Engineers, 245-254.

Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 1998.  Wave-induced currents above rippled beds. Pp. 187-199 in Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas, ed. J. Dronkers and M. Scheffers, publ. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 1999.  Eulerian drift induced by progressive waves above rippled and very rough beds. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, C1, 1465-1488.

Davies A.G., 1999. Local sediment transport modelling for waves and currents. Flood and Coastal Defence, publ. by Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Issue No. 11, Dec. 1999, 4-5.

Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 2000. Sand transport by waves and currents: Predictions of research and Engineering models. Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Sydney, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2481-2494.

Villaret C., Davies A.G. and J.M. Frey, 2000. Sand transport rate predictions using a two-phase flow model. Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Sydney, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2561-2574.

Villaret C., Davies A.G. and J.M. Frey, 2000. Présentations à la 27ème Conférence ICCE (Sydney, 2000): I. Sand transport rate predictions using a two-phase flow model. II. Sand transport rates by waves and currents. Département Laboratoire National d’Hydraulique et Environment, Electricité de France, Report HP-72/2000/057/A, 32pp.

Li Z. and A.G. Davies, 2001.  Turbulence closure modelling of sediment transport beneath large waves. Continental Shelf Research, 21, 3, 243-262.

Van Rijn L.C., Davies A.G., van de Graaff J. and J.S. Ribberink (Eds.), 2001. SEDMOC : Sediment Transport Modelling in Marine Coastal Environments. Aqua Publications, Amsterdam, 415pp.

Davies A.G., 2001. Mathematical modelling of transport by combined waves and currents in the rippled regime. Pp. AI 1-9 in ‘SEDMOC : Sediment Transport Modelling in Marine Coastal Environments’, by L.C. Van Rijn, A.G. Davies, J. van de Graaff and J.S. Ribberink (Eds.), Aqua Publications, Amsterdam.

Malarkey J. and A.G. Davies, 2001. A one-phase sheet flow model of sediment transport. Pp. BG 1-8 in ‘SEDMOC : Sediment Transport Modelling in Marine Coastal Environments’, by L.C. Van Rijn, A.G. Davies, J. van de Graaff and J.S. Ribberink (Eds.), Aqua Publications, Amsterdam.

Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 2001. Sand transport modelling for combined waves and currents: predictions of research and engineering models. Pp. CH 1-11 in ‘SEDMOC : Sediment Transport Modelling in Marine Coastal Environments’, by L.C. Van Rijn, A.G. Davies, J. van de Graaff and J.S. Ribberink (Eds.), Aqua Publications, Amsterdam.

Davies A.G., 2001. Intercomparison of research models. Pp. CL 1-7 in ‘SEDMOC : Sediment Transport Modelling in Marine Coastal Environments’, by L.C. Van Rijn, A.G. Davies, J. van de Graaff and J.S. Ribberink (Eds.), Aqua Publications, Amsterdam.

Villaret C. and A.G. Davies, 2001. Two-phase flow model description and applications to sand transport.  Département Laboratoire National d’Hydraulique et Environment, Electricité de France, Report HP-75/2001/073/A, 52pp.

Davies A.G., Van Rijn L.C., Damgaard J.S., van de Graaff J. and J.S. Ribberink, 2002. Intercomparison of research and practical sand transport models. Submitted to Coastal Engineering, 46, 1-23. [Click here for pdf file]

Thorne P.D., Williams J.J. and A.G. Davies, 2002. Suspended sediments under waves measured in a large-scale flume facility. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), 107 (C8), 10.1029/2001JC000988, 16pp.

Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 2002. Prediction of sand transport rates by waves and currents in the coastal zone.  Continental Shelf Research, 22, 18-19,2725-2737. [Click here for pdf file]

Malarkey J. and A.G. Davies, 2002. Use of Routh’s correction in the cloud-in-cell discrete vortex method.  Journal of Computational Physics, 181, 753-759.

Malarkey J. and A.G. Davies, 2002. Discrete vortex modelling of oscillatory flow over ripples. Applied Ocean Research, 24, 3, 127-145.

Davies A.G. and P.D. Thorne, 2002. 1DV-model of sand transport by waves and currents in the rippled bed regime. Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Cardiff, World Scientific, 2599-2611.  [Click here for pdf file]

Thorne P.D., Davies A.G. and J.J. Williams, 2002. Measurements of bed forms and sediments in suspension under waves. Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Cardiff, World Scientific, 3007-3019.

Malarkey J., Davies A.G. and Z. Li, 2002. A simple model of oscillatory sheet flow. Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Cardiff, World Scientific, 2491-2503.

Malarkey J., Davies A.G. and Z. Li, 2003. A simple model of unsteady sheet flow sediment transport. Coastal Engineering, 48, 3, 171-188. [Click here for pdf file]

Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 2003. Sediment transport modelling for coastal morphodynamics. Proceedings of Coastal Sediments’03, held May 18-23, in Clearwater, Florida, East Meets West Productions, 14pp. [Click here for pdf file]

Thorne P.D., Davies A.G. and J.J. Williams, 2003. Measurements of intra-wave sediment entrainment over a rippled bed. Proceedings of Coastal Sediments’03, held May 18-23, in Clearwater, Florida, East Meets West Productions, 8pp.

Malarkey J. and A.G. Davies, 2003. A non-iterative procedure for the Wiberg and Harris (1994) oscillatory sand ripple predictor. Journal of Coastal Research, 19, 3, 738-739.

Faraci C., Malarkey J., Foti E. and A.G. Davies, 2003. On sea bed roughness variability in presence of a rippled bed" 3rd IAHR Symposium
on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics. Barcelona, 1-5 September 2003. Vol 1, 352-364

Thorne P.D., Davies A.G. and J.J. Williams, 2003. Measurements of near-bed intra-wave sediment entrainment above vortex ripples. Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 20, 2028,doi:10.1029/2003GL018427. [Click here for pdf file]

Davies A.G. and C. Villaret, 2004. Modelling the effect of wave-induced ripples on littoral sand transport.  Département Laboratoire National d’Hydraulique et Environment, Electricité de France, Report HP-75/03/029/A, 48pp.

Malarkey, J., and A. G. Davies, 2004. An eddy viscosity formulation for oscillatory flow over vortex ripples. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C12016, doi:10.1029/2003JC002086.

O’Donoghue, T., M. Li, J. Malarkey, S. Pan, A.G. Davies and B.A. O’Connor, 2004. Numerical and experimental study of wave-generated sheet flow.  Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Lisbon, September 2004, World Scientific, Singapore, 1690-1702.

Davies A.G. and Thorne P.D., 2005. Modelling and measurement of sediment transport by waves in the vortex ripple regime.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, C05017, doi:10.1029/2004JC002468.  [Click here for pdf file]

Villaret C. and Davies A.G., 2004. Numerical modeling of littoral sand transport.  Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Lisbon, September 2004, World Scientific, Singapore, 1678-1689. [Click here for pdf file]

Van Rijn L.C., Soulsby R.L.,  Hoekstra P. and Davies A.G. (Eds.), 2005. SANDPIT, Sand Transport and Morphology of Offshore Mining Pits. Aqua Publications, The Netherlands, 716pp.

Magar V. and Davies A.G., 2005. Suspended sediment dynamics over rippled beds in oscillatory flows based on a 2DHV discrete-vortex / particle-tracking model. Pp. AG 1-9 in SANDPIT, Sand Transport and Morphology of Offshore Mining Pits, by L.C. Van Rijn, R.L. Soulsby, P. Hoekstra and A.G. Davies (Eds.), Aqua Publications, The Netherlands.

Malarkey J. and Davies A.G., 2005. UWB 1DV Sand Transport Model. Pp. AI 1-8 in SANDPIT, Sand Transport and Morphology of Offshore Mining Pits, by L.C. Van Rijn, R.L. Soulsby, P. Hoekstra and A.G. Davies (Eds.), Aqua Publications, The Netherlands.

Grasmeijer B.T., Davies A.G., Guizien K., van der Werf J.J., van Rijn L.C.,Walther R., Sutherland J. and J. Biegowski, 2005. Intercomparison results of sand transport models based on ‘blind’ benchmarking test cases Pp. AM 1-10 in SANDPIT, Sand Transport and Morphology of Offshore Mining Pits, by L.C. Van Rijn, R.L. Soulsby, P. Hoekstra and A.G. Davies (Eds.), Aqua Publications, The Netherlands.

Davies A.G., Berx B.E., Brown J.M. and Villaret C., 2005. Morphological modeling of trenches and pits in wave-current flows. Pp. AS 1-14 in SANDPIT, Sand Transport and Morphology of Offshore Mining Pits, by L.C. Van Rijn, R.L. Soulsby, P. Hoekstra and A.G. Davies (Eds.), Aqua Publications, The Netherlands.

Walstra D.J.R., Chesher T., Davies A.G., Ribberink J., Sergent P., Silva P., Vittori G., Walther R. and L.C. van Rijn, 2005. Intercomparison of the state of the morphological models, Pp. AY 1-23 in SANDPIT. Sand Transport and Morphology of Offshore Mining Pits, by L.C. Van Rijn, R.L. Soulsby, P. Hoekstra and A.G. Davies (Eds.), Aqua Publications, The Netherlands.

Van Rijn L.C., Davies A.G., Foti E. and M.G. Kleinhans, 2005.  EC Fifth Framework Programme project SANDPIT, State of the Art Review: Processes and prediction models. Report Z3079, WL|Delft Hydraulics, Delft, The Netherlands, 74pp.

Malarkey J. and A.G. Davies, 2006. A transport model of graded sands in the oscillatory sheet-flow regime. Proceedings of 5^th International Conference on Coastal Dynamics, Barcelona, 4-8 April 2005. CD-ROM published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, 14pp. [Click here for pdf file]

Thorne P.D. and A.G. Davies, 2006. Sounding out sediment transport – observations and modelling of ripple-generated vortices. Ocean Challenge, 14,3,15-21. [Click here for pdf file]

Davies A.G. and J.M. Brown, 2007. Field measurement and modelling of scour pit dynamics in a sandy estuary. Coastal Sediments’07: proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, May 2007, New Orleans, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1609-1622. [Click here for pdf file]

Brown J.M. and A.G. Davies, 2007. Flood/ebb tidal dominance in an estuary: sediment transport and morphology.  In Proceedings of 5th IAHR International Symposium on ‘River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics’, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 17-21 September 2007, 2:779-787. [Click here for pdf file]

Thorne P.D. Davies A.G. and Bell P.S., 2007. Acoustic measurements of vortex ripple entrainment and sediment diffusivity over a sandy rippled bed under waves. Published in the 'Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies and Results' Conference CDrom, held on Crete 25-29 June at F.O.R.T.H., pp 1065-1073. [Click here for pdf file]

Davies A.G. and Thorne P.D., 2008. Advances in the Study of Moving Sediments and Evolving Seabeds. Surveys in Geophysics, DOI 10.1007/s10712-008-9039-x, 36pp. [Click here for pdf file]
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10712-008-9039-x

Thorne, P. D., A. G. Davies, and P. S. Bell (2009), Observations and analysis of sediment diffusivity profiles over sandy rippled beds under waves, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C02023, doi:10.1029/2008JC004944. [Click here for pdf file]

Brown J.M. and A.G. Davies, 2009. Methods for medium-term prediction of the net sediment transport by waves and currents in complex coastal regions. Continental Shelf Research, 29, 11-12, 1502-1514. [Click here for pdf file]

Malarkey, J., S. Pan, M. Li, T. O'Donoghue, A.G. Davies and B.A. O'Connor, 2009. Modelling and observation of oscillatory sheet-flow sediment transport. Ocean Engineering, 36(11), 873-890. [Click here for pdf file]

Van der A D., O’Donoghue T., Davies A.G. and J.S. Ribberink, 2008. Effects of acceleration skewness on rough bed oscillatory boundary layer flow. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Hamburg, September 2008, pp 1583-1595. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814277426_0131 [Click here for pdf file]

Neill S.P., Litt, E.J., Couch S.J. and Davies A.G., 2009. The impact of tidal stream turbines on large-scale sediment dynamics. Renewable Energy, 34, 2803-2812. [Click here for pdf file]

 Robins P.E. and Davies, A.G., 2009. Morphodynamic processes in shallow estuaries: influence of tidal flats and channels on sand transport. In Proceedings of the 6^th IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM 2009), Santa Fe, Argentina, 21-25 September 2009, CRC Press/Balkema, Volume 1, 161-167. [Click here for pdf file]

Villaret C., Hervouet J.M., Huybrechts N., Van L.A. and Davies A.G., 2009. Effect of bed friction on morphodynamic modelling: Application to the central part of the Gironde estuary. In Proceedings of the 6^th IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM 2009), Santa Fe, Argentina, 21-25 September 2009, CRC Press/Balkema, Volume 2, 899-905. [Click here for pdf file]

Brown J.M. and Davies A.G., 2010. Flood/ebb tidal asymmetry in a shallow sandy estuary and the impact on net sand transport. Geomorphology, 114, 431-439. [Click here for pdf file]

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