CMS-Flow Hydrodnamics: Variable Definitions

The instantaneous current velocity u_i is split into:

$u_i=\overline{u_i}+\widetilde{u_i}+u_i^{\text{'}}$

(1)

in which

$\overline{u_i}$ = current (wave-averaged) velocity [m/s]

$\widetilde{u_i}$ = wave (oscillatory) velocity with wave-average $\overline{\widetilde{u_i}}=0[m/s]$

$u_i^{\text{'}}$ = turbulent fluctuation with ensemble average $⟨u_i^{\text{'}}⟩$ = 0 and wave average $\overline{u_i^{\text{'}}}$ = 0 [m/s]

The wave-averaged total volume flux is defined as

$h{V}_i=\overline{\underset{z}{\overset{\eta }{\int }}{u}_{i}dz}$

(2)

where

$h$ = wave-averaged water depth $h=\overline{\eta }-z_b$ [m]

$V_i$ = total mean mass flux velocity or simply total flux velocity for short [m/s]

$u_i$ = instantaneous current velocity [m/s]

$\eta$ = instantaneous water level with respect to the Still Water Level (SWL) [m]

$z_b$ = bed elevation with respect to the SWL [m]

The total flux velocity is also referred to as the mean transport velocity (Phillips 1977) and mass transport velocity (Mei 1983). The current volume flux is defined as

$h{U}_i=\underset{z}{\overset{\overline{\eta }}{\int }}\overline{u_i}dz$ (2-3)

(3)

where $U_i$ is the depth-averaged current velocity. Similarly, the wave volume flux is defined as by

$Q_{wi}=h{U}_{wi}=\overline{\int \widetilde{u_i}dz}$

(4)

where $U_{wi}$ is the depth-averaged wave flux velocity [m/s], and ${\eta }_t$ = wave trough elevation [m]. Therefore the total flux velocity may be written as

$V_i=U_i+U_{wi}$

(5)

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