Multiple Time Scales of Fluvial Processes with Bed Load Sediment and Implications for Mathematical Modeling
Multiple Time Scales of Fluvial Processes with Bed Load Sediment and Implications for Mathematical Modeling
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DOI:
10.1061/(asce)hy.1943-7900.0000296
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发表时间:
2011-03
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Z. Cao;P. Hu;G. Pender
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作者:
Z. Cao;P. Hu;G. Pender
Fluvial bed load transport is often considered to assume a capacity regime exclusively determined by local flow conditions, but its applicability in naturally occurring unsteady flows remains to be theoretically justified. In addition, mathematical river models are often decoupled, being based on simplified conservation equations and ignoring the feedback impacts of bed deformation to a certain extent. So far whether the decoupling could have considerable impacts on the fluvial processes with bed load transport remains poorly understood. This paper presents a theoretical investigation of both issues. The multiple time scales of fluvial processes with bed load sediment are evaluated to examine the applicability of bed load transport capacity and decoupled models. Numerical case studies involving active bed load transport by highly unsteady flows complement the analysis of the time scales. It is found that bed load transport can sufficiently rapidly adapt to capacity in line with local flow because sediment...