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Influence of turbulence on bed load sediment transport

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posted on 2003-01-01, 00:00 authored by B Sumer, Lloyd ChuaLloyd Chua, N Cheng, J Fredsoe
This paper summarizes the results of an experimental study on the influence of an external turbulence field on the bed load sediment transport in an open channel. The external turbulence was generated by (1) a horizontal pipe placed halfway through the depth h; (2) a series of grids with a clearance of about one-third of the depth from the bed, and extending over a finite length of the flume; and (3) a series of grids with a clearance in the range (0.1−1.0)h from the bed, but extending over the entire length of the flume. Two kinds of experiments were conducted: plane-bed experiments and ripple-covered-bed experiments. In the former case, the flow in the presence of the turbulence generator was adjusted so that the mean bed shear stress was the same as in the case without the turbulence generator in order to single out the effect of the external turbulence on the sediment transport. In the ripple-covered-bed case, the mean and turbulence quantities of the streamwise component of the velocity were measured, and the Shields parameter, due to skin friction, was determined. The Shields parameter, together with the RMS value of the streamwise velocity fluctuations, was correlated with the sediment transport rate. The sediment transport increases markedly with increasing turbulence level.

History

Journal

Journal of hydrologic engineering

Volume

129

Issue

8

Pagination

585 - 596

Publisher

American Society of Civil Engineers

Location

Reston, Va.

ISSN

1943-7900

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2003, American Society of Civil Engineers