Experiments on turbidity currents over an erodible bed
Experiments on turbidity currents over an erodible bed
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DOI:
10.1080/00221688709499292
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发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
G. Parker;Marcelo H. García;Y. Fukushima;W. Yu
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作者:
G. Parker;Marcelo H. García;Y. Fukushima;W. Yu
Experiments were conducted to determine the behaviour of turbidity currents laden with non-cohesive silt (silica flour) moving down a slope the bed of which is covered with similar silt. Each current was sustained with constant inlet conditions for six to eight minutes. The motion of the head was not studied; measurements were concentrated on the continuous part of the current that was essentially constant in time but developing in space. Only supercritical currents were studied. The currents were free to erode sediment from, and deposit sediment on, the bed. Measurements of vertical profiles of downstream velocity and sediment concentration allowed for the development of approximate similarity relations. These relations can be used to estimate most of the shape factors that occur in the vertically-integrated equations of motion. The values do not deviate grossly from those found by using a "top-hat" function, i.e. a step function, such that velocity or concentration equals its average value in the layer ...