Journal
WATER
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w14121889
Keywords
flume-scale analysis; ADV; flow-bar interaction; 3D turbulence; TKE; octagonal bursting events; 3DHS
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- King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [RSP-2021/310]
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This study investigates the hydrodynamic implications of braided rivers' geomorphological evolution, focusing on the three-dimensional turbulence structures generated around sediment bars. By measuring 3D velocity fields and analyzing 3D Turbulent Kinetic Energy components, the research sheds light on different flume-scale 3D turbulence structures and introduces the novel concept of 3D Hole Size analysis for extreme events separation.
The many hydrodynamic implications associated with the geomorphological evolution of braided rivers are still not profoundly examined in both experimental and numerical analyses, due to the generation of three-dimensional turbulence structures around sediment bars. In this experimental research, the 3D velocity fields were measured through an acoustic Doppler velocimeter during flume-scale laboratory experimental runs over an emerging sand bar model, to reproduce the hydrodynamic conditions of real braided rivers, and the 3D Turbulent Kinetic Energy (TKE) components were analyzed and discussed here in detail. Given the three-dimensionality of the examined water flow in the proximity of the experimental bar, the statistical analysis of the octagonal bursting events was applied to analyze and discuss the different flume-scale 3D turbulence structures. The main novelty of this study is the proposal of the 3D Hole Size (3DHS) analysis, used for separating the extreme events observed in the experimental runs from the low-intensity events.
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