Abstract
Abstract
Extraction of sand from riverbed has catastrophic repercussions on aquatic animalia habitat, water quality, and the environment. Alongside, physical alterations in the fluvial hydraulics arising on account of sand mining are also worthy of attention. Flows passing over the pits excavated in a channel have enhanced erosive propensity, which can be a cause of concern for the downstream hydraulic structures. The complex nature of flow interacting with the bridge piers after passing over a mining pit is not fully understood. Experiments were conducted to apprehend the effects of a dredged pit on the turbulence flow-field around an oblong pier. Flow was passed in an erodible sand bed rectangular channel having an oblong pier for the first case. In the second case, a pit was dredged in the mobile bed to replicate a mined channel, and the pier was subjected to the same discharge. The streambed at the approach of the pier experiences greater mean bed shear because of dredging. The amplification of the instantaneous bed shear beneath the turbulent horseshoe vortex (THSV) zone at the pier front is almost twice due to channel dredging. The findings can be useful in understanding the streambed instabilities around bridge piers in mining-infested channels.
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