Affiliation:
1. Research Center for Port, Waterway and Sea Development, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450000, China
Abstract
The transport of a non-uniform bed load in a river is a complicated process and has enormous implications on the sediment flux and anomalous riverbed evolution. To investigate the transport characteristics of the non-uniform bed load and the related particle interactions, a real-time monitoring system of the bed load transport was developed to determine the instant transport rate and grain composition of the bed load. Doppler Velocimetry was used to synchronously measure the fluctuating velocity in high frequency. A total of 211 cases of flume experiments were conducted, focusing on non-uniform sediment with a bimodal pattern. The experimental results indicate that the random fluctuation of the bed load transport amount closely depends on the flow-intensity fluctuation caused by the turbulence burst near the bed. When the value of the flow-fluctuation peak is bigger than 2.5 σ, the coarse sands tend to incipient motion in high probability but are mostly fine sand transport when the peak is less than 1.5 σ. The transport rate of fine particles remains continuous throughout the process, while that of coarse particles is intermittent because the incipient motion mechanism of bed load sands mainly follows three modes. If the difference in diameter between the coarse and fine particles is large, the transport of coarse particles may undergo supernormal transport because of the effect of the fine particles on the coarse particles. The bed load flux of total, fine, and coarse sand present different trends with changes in the bed material composition, in which the transport rate of coarse sands and total bed load sands presents a humped curve in terms of the mixture ratio, and the optimal corresponding mixture ratio ηc is about 3:7. The optimal mixture ratio is not fixed, and it depends on the grain composition and size differential of bed material. With a proper mixture ratio, the transport rate of a non-uniform bed load is higher than the uniform bed load of related size. These findings might provide valuable support for predicting bed load transport and bed evolution in rivers.
Funder
the Key Scientific Research Projects in Colleges and Universities of Henan Province
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Water Science and Technology,Aquatic Science,Geography, Planning and Development,Biochemistry
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