Flow pattern in the scour hole around a cylinder
Flow pattern in the scour hole around a cylinder
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DOI:
10.1080/00221680309499989
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发表时间:
2003-07
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
K. Babaeyan-Koopaei
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作者:
K. Babaeyan-Koopaei
The Authors are congratulated on presenting an interesting paper on a complex phenomenon concerning the flow pattern around circular bridge piers. This problem has been of interest to a large number of researchers and has been researched on for the past few decades e.g. Townsend (1947), Chabert and Engeldinger (1956), Roshko (1961), Belik (1973), Melville and Raudkivi (1977), Breusers et al (1977), Baker (1978). Ettema (1980), Raudkivi and Sutherland (1981), Dargahi (1987), Kobayashi et al. (1997), Babaeyan-Koopaei and Valentine (1999), Ting (2001), and the list still goes on. The Discusser has also carried out flow visualization of the flow pattern around circular piers. The flow visualization was conducted in a 16 m long, 0.3 m wide by 0.3 m deep tilting flume. The flume bed was composed of graded gravel sediments with dso = 6.5 mm. The flow was seeded with neutrally buoyant tracers and illuminated by a 0.5 m long by 5 mm wide vertical light sheet from a halogen lamp contained in a movable carriage. Recordings of the tracers' motion were made with a digital video or a still camera attached to the carriage (Fig. 1). An example of the image obtained with the use of this technique is shown in Fig. 2(a). It clearly shows the downflow in front of the pier, a strong vortex directly upstream of the pier, and the cast-off and wake vortices downstream of the pier. It does also confirm the nature of change in velocity vector V, measured by Ahmed and Rajaratnam (1998) shown in Fig. 2(b), that at different flow depths the pitch angle of the velocity vector is very close to —90° near the cylinder surface. The Authors have indicated that in their experiment they have observed a series of four vortices in the scour hole upstream of the cylinder i.e. a clockwise strong vortex at the brink, a weak counter-clockwise vortex at x ~ —35 cm, a rather strong clock wise vortex at x ~ —10 cm, and another clockwise vortex in the remaining part of the scour hole. According to Baker (1978). and Dargahi (1987) the positions of these vortices vary with the