Statistical Analysis of Bed Load Transport over an Armored Bed Layer with Cluster Microforms
River engineers have long been challenged by the need to predict sediment transport, especially over armored riverbeds. This study investigates the statistical properties of bed load transport over an armored bed layer with cluster microforms in laboratory experiments. Particle clusters on the sedim...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Water (Basel) 2019-10, Vol.11 (10), p.2082 |
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Zusammenfassung: | River engineers have long been challenged by the need to predict sediment transport, especially over armored riverbeds. This study investigates the statistical properties of bed load transport over an armored bed layer with cluster microforms in laboratory experiments. Particle clusters on the sediment bed were formed by widely graded particles under constant flow. A series of key kinematic parameters computed from particle trajectories recorded by a digital camcorder, including mean squared particle displacement (MSD), particle number activity, particle velocities, step length, and rest period, were analyzed. The scaling growth of the MSD with time showed that the particle diffusion regime was superdiffusive at small time scales, but became subdiffusive at larger time scales. The particle number activity follows a negative binomial distribution, and the probability distributions of streamwise and transverse particle velocities displayed heavy asymptotic tails, which indicates the particle clusters might exert a dual impact on bed load transport: some particles are accelerated in the preferential paths between particle clusters, while others were obstructed by the particle clusters. In addition, the bed load diffusion regime varied with observation time scales. The findings of this study can gain insight into the bed load transport processes over armored riverbeds. |
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ISSN: | 2073-4441 2073-4441 |
DOI: | 10.3390/w11102082 |