scholarly journals Supercritical flows overspilling from bypass‐dominated submarine channels and the development of overbank bedforms

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam McArthur ◽  
Ian Kane ◽  
Guilherme Bozetti ◽  
Larissa Hansen ◽  
Benjamin C. Kneller
Keyword(s):  
Submarine Channels ◽  
Supercritical Flows

Two-dimensional leaps in near-critical flow over isolated orography

2005 ◽  
Vol 461 (2064) ◽  
pp. 3747-3763 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.R Johnson ◽  
G.G Vilenski
Keyword(s):  
Unsteady Flow ◽  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Flow Speed ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Subcritical Flow ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Petviashvili Equation ◽  
Lee Wave ◽  
Supercritical Flows

This paper describes steady two-dimensional disturbances forced on the interface of a two-layer fluid by flow over an isolated obstacle. The oncoming flow speed is close to the linear longwave speed and the layer densities, layer depths and obstacle height are chosen so that the equations of motion reduce to the forced two-dimensional Korteweg–de Vries equation with cubic nonlinearity, i.e. the forced extended Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation. The distinctive feature noted here is the appearance in the far lee-wave wake behind obstacles in subcritical flow of a ‘table-top’ wave extending almost one-dimensionally for many obstacles widths across the flow. Numerical integrations show that the most important parameter determining whether this wave appears is the departure from criticality, with the wave appearing in slightly subcritical flows but being destroyed by two-dimensional effects behind even quite long ridges in even moderately subcritical flow. The wave appears after the flow has passed through a transition from subcritical to supercritical over the obstacle and its leading and trailing edges resemble dissipationless leaps standing in supercritical flow. Two-dimensional steady supercritical flows are related to one-dimensional unsteady flows with time in the unsteady flow associated with a slow cross-stream variable in the two-dimensional flows. Thus the wide cross-stream extent of the table-top wave appears to derive from the combination of its occurrence in a supercritical region embedded in the subcritical flow and the propagation without change of form of table-top waves in one-dimensional unsteady flow. The table-top wave here is associated with a resonant steepening of the transition above the obstacle and a consequent twelve-fold increase in drag. Remarkably, the table-top wave is generated equally strongly and extends laterally equally as far behind an axisymmetric obstacle as behind a ridge and so leads to subcritical flows differing significantly from linear predictions.

Comparison principles for free-surface flows with gravity

1991 ◽  
Vol 230 ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Craig ◽  
Peter Sternberg
Keyword(s):  
Solitary Waves ◽  
Finite Depth ◽  
Free Surface Flows ◽  
Immiscible Fluids ◽  
Steady Flows ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Surface Flows ◽  
Ship Hulls ◽  
Geometrical Information ◽  
Supercritical Flows

This article considers certain two-dimensional, irrotational, steady flows in fluid regions of finite depth and infinite horizontal extent. Geometrical information about these flows and their singularities is obtained, using a variant of a classical comparison principle. The results are applied to three types of problems: (i) supercritical solitary waves carrying planing surfaces or surfboards, (ii) supercritical flows past ship hulls and (iii) supercritical interfacial solitary waves in systems consisting of two immiscible fluids.

An Examination of Froude-Supercritical Flows and Cyclic Steps On A Subaqueous Lacustrine Delta, Lake Chelan, Washington, U.S.A

2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (7) ◽  
pp. 754-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron T. Fricke ◽  
Benjamin A. Sheets ◽  
Charles A. Nittrouer ◽  
Mead A. Allison ◽  
Andrea S. Ogston
Keyword(s):  
Lacustrine Delta ◽  
Supercritical Flows

scholarly journals The Role of Mass Wasting In the Progressive Development Of Submarine Channels (Espírito Santo Basin, Se Brazil)

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 500-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongpeng Qin ◽  
Tiago M. Alves ◽  
José Constantine ◽  
Davide Gamboa
Keyword(s):  
Mass Wasting ◽  
Submarine Channels ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Se Brazil ◽  
Espirito Santo

Flow processes and sedimentation associated with erosion and filling of sinuous submarine channels

Geology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Pyles ◽  
Mark Tomasso ◽  
David C. Jennette
Keyword(s):  
Submarine Channels ◽  
Flow Processes

Airfoil Design in Subcritical and Supercritical Flows

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Chin ◽  
D. P. Rizzetta
Keyword(s):  
Reasonable Agreement ◽  
Relaxation Method ◽  
Supercritical Pressure ◽  
Small Disturbance ◽  
Trailing Edge ◽  
Difference Analysis ◽  
Pressure Distributions ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
Supercritical Flows

The “inverse” or “design” problem in aerodynamics, which solves for the airfoil shape that induces a prescribed chordwise surface pressure subject to additional requirements on trailing edge closure, is considered in the transonic small-disturbance limit. A new formulation for the stream function ψ is suggested which uses well-set Neumann conditions on the chordwise slit, with the degree of closure dictated by a specified jump in ψ across the downstream slit emanating from the trailing edge. The boundary-value problem is solved by a type-dependent relaxation method that automatically generates closed airfoils on convergence. Computed airfoil shapes using subcritical and supercritical pressure distributions obtained from existing finite-difference analysis codes, in the latter case, with and without shockwaves, give results in reasonable agreement with the original specified shapes, and validate the basic ideas.

How submarine channels (re)shape continental margins

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (11) ◽  
pp. 1581-1600
Author(s):  
Luke A. Pettinga ◽  
Zane R. Jobe
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Evolution Model ◽  
Sediment Supply ◽  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Continental Margins ◽  
Sedimentary Processes ◽  
Submarine Channels ◽  
Active Tectonic ◽  
Tectonic Settings ◽  
Longitudinal Profiles

ABSTRACT Submarine landscapes, like their terrestrial counterparts, are sculpted by autogenic sedimentary processes toward morphologies at equilibrium with their allogenic controls. While submarine channels and nearby, inter-channel continental-margin areas share boundary conditions (e.g., terrestrial sediment supply, tectonic deformation), there are significant differences between the style, recurrence, and magnitude of their respective autogenic sedimentary processes. We predict that these process-based differences affect the rates of geomorphic change and equilibrium (i.e., graded) morphologies of submarine-channel and continental-margin longitudinal profiles. To gain insight into this proposed relationship, we document, classify (using machine learning), and analyze longitudinal profiles from 50 siliciclastic continental margins and associated submarine channels which represent a range of sediment-supply regimes and tectonic settings. These profiles tend to evolve toward smooth, lower-gradient longitudinal profiles, and we created a “smoothness” metric as a proxy for the relative maturity of these profiles toward the idealized equilibrium profile. Generally, higher smoothness values occur in systems with larger sediment supply, and the smoothness of channels typically exceeds that of the associated continental margin. We propose that the high rates of erosion, bypass, and deposition via sediment gravity flows act to smooth and mature channel profiles more rapidly than the surrounding continental margin, which is dominated by less-energetic diffusive sedimentary processes. Additionally, tectonic deformation will act to reduce the smoothness of these longitudinal profiles. Importantly, the relationship between total sediment supply and the difference between smoothness values of associated continental margins and submarine channels (the “smoothness Δ”) follows separate trends in passive and active tectonic settings, which we attribute to the variability in relative rates of smoothness development between channelized and inter-channel environments in the presence or absence of tectonic deformation. We propose two endmember pathways by which continental margins and submarine channels coevolve towards their respective equilibrium profiles with increased sediment supply: 1) Coupled Evolution Model (common in passive tectonic settings), in which the smoothness Δ increases only slightly before remaining static, and 2) Decoupled Evolution Model (common in active tectonic settings), in which the smoothness Δ increases more rapidly and to a greater final value. Our analysis indicates that the interaction of the allogenic factors of sediment supply and tectonic deformation with the autogenic sedimentary processes characteristic of channelized and inter-channel areas of the continental margin may account for much of the variability between coevolution pathways and depositional architectures.

New Syphon for Subcritical and Supercritical Flows

1978 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-446
Author(s):  
H. Ali Șenturk ◽  
Vedat M. Bașak ◽  
Toraman Șahin
Keyword(s):  
Supercritical Flows

scholarly journals Stream power controls the braiding intensity of submarine channels similarly to rivers

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 5062-5070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Y. J. Lai ◽  
Samuel S. C. Hung ◽  
Brady Z. Foreman ◽  
Ajay B. Limaye ◽  
Jean-Louis Grimaud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stream Power ◽  
Submarine Channels
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