Bed Load Distribution Analysis of Pondo Poboya River to The Hydraulics Flow Parameters

The aim is to know the effect of bedload sediment to river hydraulics parameters. The research was conducted by taking samples in three-part of the river. Each location is taken ten cross-sections with left, middle, and right parts of the river. Bedload sediment is calculated by the grain analysis method. There are several approaches in determining the roughness: Manning, Raudkivi, Subramanya, Meyer, and Muller roughness. From the analysis results, sediment in the form of fine sediment (d ≤ 0.15 mm) located in the middle of the cross-section does not settle due to high velocity. In contrast, in the wet area, the velocity is smaller so that grain material is deposited. The relationship of bedload sediment to the morphological form of the river shows that the middle part has the most material content in grain sediment (d ≤ 0.15 mm). The wet edge has the most content in gravel and sand (d < 6 mm). The Manning equation obtained a minimum roughness of 0.0257 and a maximum coefficient of 0.0365 with an average value of 0.0311. This value is matched with the coefficient of roughness on the Manning table does not differ much, i.e., natural, straight, and meandering channels.

Modern Analogues of Sedimentation of Lower Permian Reservoirs in the Dnieper-Donets Depression

The paper considers the problematics of identifying proper analogues for understanding carbonate and clastic reservoir distribution and prediction in the Lower Permian and Upper and Lower Carboniferous within the Dnieper-Donets basin. The focus of the exploration team was finding meandering rivers. This choice was proven good in mapping reservoirs and finding traps deeper in the Upper and Middle Carboniferous, although for Permian clastic section the approach was not helpful. The second option was desert dunes, but poor sorting of reservoirs suggests a more complex picture. Analogues such as desert environment is quite logical for describing Lower Permian as aridic climate, with red and brown shales and sands. Lower Permian reservoirs have a moon-like shape in the vertical sections that could be easily mistaken for river channels, but in such a dry climate, it is very likely water flow channels with sporadic hurricane-related activities. Core and logs shows chaotic grain sizes, but more with fine grains with almost no coarse grains. The source of sedimentary material could be mountains of Ukrainian Rock Shield from the South and Voronezh massif from the North. This conceptual model is proposing not to look for meandering channels, but more for braided channels with poorly sorted material. The current time analogue could be the Oman desert between the mountains and peninsula. From satellite images, braided channels are clearly visible in the direction towards the Indian Ocean. The channels’ internal structure is quite heterogeneous. This method suggests exploration targets with possible widths of the channels as big as hundreds of meters and their lengths under 10 and between 10-20 kilometres maximum.

Experiments on Longitudinal and Transverse Bedload Transport in Sine-Generated Meandering Channels

Bedload grains in consecutive meandering bends either move longitudinally or across the channel centerline. This study traces and quantifies the grains’ movement in two laboratorial sine-generated channels, i.e., one with deflection angle θ0 = 30° and the other 110°. The grains originally paved along the channels are uniform in size with D = 1 mm and are dyed in various colors, according to their initial location. The experiments recorded the changes in the flow patterns, bed deformation, and the gain-loss distribution of the colored grains in the pool-bar complexes. We observed the formation of two types of erosion zones during the process of the bed deformation, i.e., Zone 1 in the foreside of the point bars and Zone 2 near the concave bank downstream of the bend apexes. Most grains eroded from Zone 1 are observed moving longitudinally as opposed to crossing the channel centerline. Contrastingly, the dominant moving direction of the grains eroded from Zone 2 changes from the longitudinal direction to the transversal one as the bed topography evolves. Besides, most building material of the point bars comes from the upstream bends, although low- and highly curved channels behave differently.

Laterally accreted deposits in low efficiency turbidites associated with a structurally-induced topography (Oligocene Molare Group, Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy)

ABSTRACT The origin of laterally accreted deposits in ancient deep marine successions is often controversial. Indeed, not always do these features imply the occurrence of meanders or high-sinuosity turbidite channels, but they can be generated by other causes, such as sediment-gravity-flow dynamics controlled by the morphology of tectonically confined mini-basins. This work discusses laterally accreted deposits composed of sharp-based, normally graded beds in a very small tectonically controlled mini-basin. These beds, characterized by a well-defined asymmetrical cross-current facies tract, form well-developed lateral-accretion surfaces dipping in directions ranging between W and SW, and perpendicular to the paleocurrents directed towards the N. For this reason, these deposits have always been interpreted as point bars related to meandering channels. A new detailed stratigraphic framework and facies analysis have led to an alternative interpretation, namely that these deposits record lateral deflections of small volume, longitudinally segregated turbidite dense flows against a structurally controlled morphological high. This interpretation is also supported by a comparison to other tectonically controlled turbidite systems that are characterized by higher degrees of efficiency but show similar laterally accreted deposits and cross-current facies tracts.

Nonlinear Shear Effects of the Secondary Current in the 2D Flow Analysis in Meandering Channels with Sharp Curvature

In order to analyze the shear effect of secondary currents on the flow structures in a meandering channel, this research developed a two-dimensional shallow water model, which included the dispersion stress term accounting for the shear effect in the vertical velocity profile. A new equation for the vertical velocity profile that included nonlinear shear effects was derived from the equation of motion in the meandering channel with sharp curvature. Using the experiment data obtained from large-scale meandering channels, the ratio of the depth over the radius-of-curvature was incorporated into the shear intensity of the secondary flow in the proposed equation. Comparisons with the experimental results by Rozovskii (1957) showed that the computed values of the primary velocity distribution by the proposed model showed better fit with the observed data than the simulations with linear models and models without secondary flow consideration. The simulated results in the large-scale meandering channels demonstrated that simulations with the nonlinear secondary flow effect added into modeling gave higher accuracy, reducing the relative error by 19% in reproducing the skewed distributions of the primary flow in meandering channels, particularly in the regions where the effects from spiral motion were strong, due to sharp meanders.

Reflections

The music Tudor made in the 1980s is difficult to understand. On the surface, it appears that he returned to the use of amplified physical objects, particularly through his partnership with Jackie Monnier. Beneath the positive appearance, however, he was pursuing an almost inaudible “negative music” based on virtually silent noises included in his past recordings extracted by using a noise gate in reverse mode. These two parallel courses intertwine in his subsequent collaboration with Monnier using radars and ultrasonic transceivers to detect the movement of kite-like volatiles reflecting the otherwise invisible movement of wind, initially conceived as an attempt to simulate the unfinished island project. These endeavors show Tudor exploring the virtual nature of silence through technology, which brings back to mind Cage’s infamous 4'33" that Tudor premiered more than thirty years before, as well as Antonin Artaud’s conception of “Virtual Reality” which first entered the English language through Tudor’s involvement. What appears at the intersection of these parallel meandering channels is the status of the actual body which processes the distinction between the virtual and the actual, a fragile instrument that at the time was beginning to fail on Tudor’s end.