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    @conference {2074,
    	title = {Turbulent sediment transport in flow around an elongated pier},
    	journal = {Particles in Complex Flows 2012. International Conference on Fundamentals, Experiments, Numeric and Applications},
    	year = {2012},
    	month = {2012-06-28 00:00:00},
    	address = {Reykjavik University, Isl{\^a}ndia},
    	abstract = {

    This work describes the free surface flow and clear water scour around an elongated vertical pier.
    Measurements were made using two-component Laser Doppler Anemometry, with the main objective of
    studying the turbulent sediment transport around elongated piers.
    The flow around a circular pier has been the subject of a large number of studies (e.g. Dargahi (1989),
    Graf (1998) Roulund et al. (2005)). When the pier is mounted on a sediment bed, the tri-dimensional flow
    field around the pier interacts with the bed of sediments (either cohesive or cohesionless) and originates
    clear water scour. The flow around a pier is characterized by the existence of a horseshoe vortex in front
    of the pier, which is responsible for the evolution of the scour process. The scour hole increases both in
    depth and in extension towards upstream, while the horseshoe vortex continues to excavate the sediment
    slope. As the sediments are suspended in the flow, they travel downstream and eventually fall and
    sediment in regions of lower turbulence. The scour cavity dimensions increase both upstream and
    downstream, until equilibrium is achieved. This phenomenon is usually studied by means of mathematical
    modelling (Kirkil et al. 2008, Kirkil et al. 2009), due to the experimental complexity of the scour process.
    The experimental work concerning initial conditions (Roulund et al., 2005), i.e. prior to scour cavities
    developing, can however provide adequate validation of models.
    Experiments were conducted in a 0.4 m wide and 16.7 m long flume, and the test section was installed
    approximately 9.7 m downstream the beginning of the flume. The test section consisted of a rectangular
    vertical pier with round nose shapes. The pier was 4 cm wide and 8 cm long. Two alternative
    experimental configurations were studied: (i) the flow over a flat bottom and (ii) the flow over a sediment
    bed. In case (i) the pier was mounted in an acrylic plate 1.8 m long, were a layer of uniform sand with
    0.376 mm mean diameter was glued, in order to reproduce the natural roughness of a river stream. In case
    (ii) the pier was mounted in a box, 10 cm deep and 1.8 m long, filled in with uniform sand with a mean
    diameter of 0.376 mm. The flow was controlled by a gate valve and measured by an electromagnetic flow
    meter (ABB, model IDE41F). Water depth was controlled by a sluice gate at the downstream extremity of
    the flume.
    The light source was an Argon-ion Laser (Spectra-Physics, Model 177-G0232) and the optical system
    was a Dantec 60X41 FiberFlow, including a 40 MHz frequency shifter and colour separation, combined
    with an 85 mm probe together with a beam expander and 500 mm front lens. A colour separator (55X35)
    split the collected light into 2 wavelengths before reaching the corresponding photomultipliers (Dantec
    57{\texttimes}18). LDA data processing and acquisition was performed using BSA F60 Flow analyser (Dantec).
    Simultaneous measurements of longitudinal (horizontal) and vertical velocities were made using the
    overlapped coincidence method.
    The flow was studied for water depths of 5 and 15 cm and mean horizontal approach velocities equal to
    0.17 and 0.25 ms-1.
    Measurements of horizontal and vertical velocities in the vicinity of an elongated pier show the strong
    interaction between the structure and the flow. In case (i) the flow decelerates as it approaches the pier,
    and is defected towards the bottom. In the wake of the pier there is a reverse flow until one pier diameter
    downstream, and then the flow starts to accelerate, as the influence of the pier disappears. In free surface
    flows Reynolds stresses usually present negative values, but in the present case, as the flow approaches
    the pier, Reynolds stresses become positive and increase. In case (ii) a similar flow pattern was found, but
    smaller turbulence intensities were measured.

    }, keywords = {Sediment transport, Turbulence}, author = {Lima, M. M. C. L.} }

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