Clear water jet

Setup

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The rectangular flume has a narrow 0.2 m-wide inlet and a 3 m-wide outlet. The initial water depth was 0.15 m with a 0.16 m layer of 0.6 mm sand over a concrete bottom. The flume was 5 m long and 4 m wide. The measured sand settling velocity of 0.013 m/s was used.

The experiment consist of a trapezoidal channel of uniform find sand (d50 = 0.16 mm) with a steady flow (0.51 m/sec) perpendicular to the channel axis (Gallappatti and Vreugdenhil 1985). The water depth on the upstream bank is about 0.39 m. Three bank slopes were tested: 1:3, 1:7, and 1:10. A flux boundary condition was used at the inlet and a water level boundary condition at the outlet. A constant Manning n coefficient of 0.025 (default) was used. The Lund-CIRP transport formula was used for all three test cases. The morphologic scaling factor was set to 1.0. The adaptation length was calibrated to be 0.6 m.

Trapezoidal Channel

Results

The figures below show a comparison between measured and computed bed elevations.

Figure 1. Experimental setup for Thuc (1991) experiment.

Figure 2. Computed bed elevations and current velocities at t=4 hrs.

Figure 3. Computed and measured bed elevations at t=1,4 hrs.

References

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Thuc, T. (1991) “Two-dimensional morphological computations near hydraulic structures”, Doctoral Dissertation, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.

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