scholarly journals BED LOAD TRANSPORT DUE TO NON-LINEAR WAVE MOTION

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitoshi Tanaka

The bed load transport rate due to wave motion is measured in a wave flume. The modified stream function theory of the author ( Tanaka (1988) ) is applied to the formulation of the sediment transport rate in order to include the non-linearity. The proposed formula predicts well except near the surf zone where the effect of the acceleration plays an important role.

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward B. Thornton

The wave-induced sand transport alongshore is investigated by an energy principle approach. Although the energy approach has been used before, this is the first application to comparing theory and measurements of the distribution of littoral transport along a line perpendicular to the beach. Bed load transport equations are formulated for outside and inside the surf zone. Sand transport data were collected in the field using bed load traps. Wave, tide, wind, and current information was collected simultaneously in order to verify the derived predictive equations for longshore current and sediment transport. Quite reasonable predictions are obtained for the relative distribution of bed load transport, both inside and outside the surf zone.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (33) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiming Wu ◽  
Qianru Lin

Nonuniform sediment transport exhibits difference from uniform sediment, even when the mean grain size is the same for both cases. The hiding, exposure, and armoring among different size fractions in the nonuniform bed material may significantly affect sediment transport, morphological change, bed roughness, wave dissipation, etc. It is necessary to develop multiple-sized sediment transport capacity formula to improve the accuracy and reliability of coastal analysis tools. The Wu et al. (2000) formula, which was developed for river sedimentation, is herein extended to calculate multiple-sized sediment transport under current and waves for coastal applications. This formula relates bed-load transport to the grain shear stress and suspended-load transport to the energy of the flow system. It considers the effect of bed material size composition in the hiding and exposure correction factor, which is omitted in many other existing formulas. Methods have been developed in this study to determine the bed shear stress due to waves only and combined current and waves, and in turn to compute the bed-load and suspended-load transport rates using the Wu et al. (2000) formula without changing its original formulation. The enhanced bed-load formula considers the effect of wave asymmetry on sediment transport, calculates the onshore and offshore bed-load transport rates separately and then derives the net transport rate, whereas the enhanced suspended-load formula calculates only the net transport rate due to the limit of available data. The formula has been tested using the single-sized and multiple-sized sediment transport data sets. The formula provides reliable predictions in both fractional and total transport rates. More than half of the test cases are predicted within a factor of 2 of the measured values, and more than 90% of the cases are within a factor of 5. This accuracy is generally reasonable for sediment transport under current and waves, which is very complex and little understood.


2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-370

Systematic measurements of sediment transport rates and water discharge were conducted in the Nestos River (Greece), at a place located between the outlet of Nestos River basin and the river delta. This basin area is about 838 km2 and lies downstream of the Platanovrysi Dam. Separate measurements of bed load transport and suspended load transport were performed at certain cross sections of the Nestos River. In this study, relationships between sediment transport rates and stream discharge for the Nestos River are presented. A nonlinear regression curve (4th degree polynomial curve; r2 equals 0.62) between bed load transport rates and stream discharge, on the basis of 63 measurements, was developed. In addition, a nonlinear regression curve (5th degree polynomial curve; r2 equals 0.95) between suspended load transport rates and stream discharge, on the basis of 65 measurements, was developed. The relatively high r2 values indicate that both bed load transport rates and, especially, suspended load transport rates can be predicted as a function of the stream discharge in the Nestos River. However, the reliability of the regression equations would have been higher if more measured data were available.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ramadhan Hidayat Putra ◽  
Amad Syarif Syukri ◽  
Catrin Sudarjat ◽  
Vickky Anggara Ilham

Research on Aepodu Weir Sediment Transport Analysis in South Konawe District, based on observations in the field, Aepodu Weir hasa sediment buildup that has now exceeded the height of the weirlight house. The purpose of the study was to analyze the magnitudeof Aepodu river flow and to analyze the amount of sedimenttransport that occurred in the Aepodu dam. The method used todetermine the amount of bed load transport uses stchoklitscht, whilefor transporting suspended load using forcheimer.The results of the analysis of the average flow of the Aepodu riverwere 3,604 m3/ second. Sediment transport that occurs in Aepoduweir is Bedload transport (Qb) of 291625.771 tons / year, andsuspended load transport (Qs) of 16972,423 tons / year, so that thetotal sediment transport (QT) is 308598,194 tons / year.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 02053 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Conevski ◽  
A. Winterscheid ◽  
N. Ruther ◽  
M. Guerrero ◽  
C. Rennie

The bottom tracking (BT) feature of the acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP) have emerged as a promising technique in evaluating the bed load. Strong statistical correlations are reported between the ADCP BT velocity and the transport rate obtained by physical sampling or dune tracking; however, these relations are strictly site-specific and a local calibration is necessary. The direct physical sampling is very labor intensive and it is prone to high instrument uncertainty. The aim of this work is to develop a methodology for evaluating the bed load transport using commercial ADCPs without calibration with physical samples. Relatively long stationary measurements were performed in a sand-bed and sand gravel rivers, using three different ADCPs working at 3MHz, 1.2MHz and 0.6MHz. Simultaneously, bed load samples were collected with physical samplers, and the riverbed was closely observed with digital cameras mounted on the samplers. It is demonstrated that the kinematic transport model can yield a relatively good estimate of the transport rate by directly using filtered apparent velocity, the knowledge of the hydraulic conditions and instrument-related calibration coefficients. Additionally, the ADCP data can help in qualitative assessment of the physical sampling. Future investigation of the backscattering echo and further confirmation of the BT apparent velocity should be performed in laboratory-controlled conditions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 172-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Papalaskaris ◽  
Paraskevi Dimitriadou ◽  
Vlassios Hrissanthou

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyoshi Horikawa ◽  
Akira Watanabe ◽  
Sadakazu Katori

A series of laboratory experiments in an oscillatory tank was carried out to investigate the sheet flow of sediment. Objectives of the study were to determine the criterion for inception of sheet flow, and to evaluate the sediment transport rate under the sheet flow condition. In order to proceed with the investigation, it was necessary to develop devices appropriate for tracing the sediment particle movement, and for measuring the extremely dense sediment concentration in the moving layer of sheet flow. The chief results are: 1) the criteria for the inception of sheet flow given by Manohar C1955) and by Komar and Miller (1974) are both applicable to materials composed of spheroidal particles, and 2) the average rate of sediment transport for sheet flow is well described by an empirical relationship given by Madsen and Grant (1976) for the bed load transport rate on a plane bed in oscillatory flow.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Lajeunesse ◽  
Olivier Devauchelle ◽  
François James

Abstract. We use the erosion–deposition model introduced by Charru et al. (2004) to numerically simulate the evolution of a plume of bed load tracers entrained by a steady flow. In this model, the propagation of the plume results from the stochastic exchange of particles between the bed and the bed load layer. We find a transition between two asymptotic regimes. The tracers, initially at rest, are gradually set into motion by the flow. During this entrainment regime, the plume is strongly skewed in the direction of propagation and continuously accelerates while spreading nonlinearly. With time, the skewness of the plume eventually reaches a maximum value before decreasing. This marks the transition to an advection–diffusion regime in which the plume becomes increasingly symmetrical, spreads linearly, and advances at constant velocity. We analytically derive the expressions of the position, the variance, and the skewness of the plume and investigate their asymptotic regimes. Our model assumes steady state. In the field, however, bed load transport is intermittent. We show that the asymptotic regimes become insensitive to this intermittency when expressed in terms of the distance traveled by the plume. If this finding applies to the field, it might provide an estimate for the average bed load transport rate.


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