Journal
ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES
Volume 32, Issue 12, Pages 1717-1725Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.09.004
Keywords
microADV; Mean flow; Spur dike; Turbulence
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Funding
- NSF [EAR-314630]
- Army Research Office [52326EV]
- State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [0846523] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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An acoustic Doppler velocimeter was used to measure flow and turbulence around an experimental spur dike in a flat and a scoured bed. Differences of mean velocity, turbulent intensity and Reynolds stresses between these two flow fields were analyzed. Upon the formation of scour hole, mean flow velocities in the downstream and lateral directions were reduced, but increased in the vertical direction. The turbulence intensities (u' and v') are much larger, and the vertical component (w') is smaller than that in the flat bed. Among three Reynolds stresses, the -rho(u'w') over bar and -rho(v'w') over bar components are much smaller than the -rho(u'v') over bar. Bed shear stress near the dike can be 6 to 8 times as large as that of the approaching flow so that a local scour is developed near the dike without the shear stress of approaching flow exceeding the critical shear stress of bed material. The local scour initiated at the upstream of the dike and then extends to downstream from the dike tip. These results indicated that the development of local scour synchronizes to high shear stresses resulted from the horseshoe vorticies on a mobile bed surface. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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