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ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 32-44Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.04.019
Keywords
Two-phase flow; Direct Numerical Simulation; Immersed Boundary Method; Collision modeling; Sediment; Bed-load transport
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [FR 1593/5-1]
- Julich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) [5122]
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The paper presents Direct Numerical Simulations of an open channel flow laden with spherical particles at a bulk Reynolds number of 2941. The transport of thousands of mobile particles is simulated propagating over a rough bed which consists of immobile particles of the same size in hexagonal ordering. An Immersed Boundary Method is used for the numerical representation of the particles. With 22 points per diameter even the viscous scales of the flow are resolved at this Reynolds number. The reference run contains just as many fixed as mobile particles with a relative density slightly above the nominal threshold of incipient motion. Further runs were conducted with decreased mass loading and decreased Shields number together with a simulation containing only immobile particles. The variation of the parameters defining the mobile sediment yields a strong modification of particle-fluid as well as particle-particle interactions yielding different structures in space and time. This is assessed by means of appropriate statistical quantities addressing the continuous and the disperse phase. The results are in qualitative agreement with experimental observations at higher Reynolds number. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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