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Numerical Modeling of Sediment Transport and Bed Evolution in Nonuniform Open-Channel Flows

Zerihun Yebegaeshet T.

Archives of Hydro-Engineering and Environmental Mechanics

2024

Vol. 71, nr 1

1--26

The shallow-water and multilayer hydrostatic models have been commonly used to analyze the problems of a sediment-laden, plane open-channel flow. The models are adequate to solve a quasi-hydrostatic flow problem, but their accuracy deteriorates as the effects of the vertical acceleration gain in significance. Herein, a higher-order numerical model for treating the problems of unsteady, plane open-channel flow over a movable bed is proposed. In this model, the flow hydrodynamics is governed by the depth-averaged Boussinesq-type equations, and the bed morphodynamics is determined by an Exner-type equation and additional equations describing the non-equilibrium transports of suspended load and bed load. A hybrid finite-volume and finite-difference scheme was used to discretize and solve the governing equations, yielding solutions that are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data. Overall, the results of the proposed model for the temporal free-surface profile and bed evolution were fairly adequate. For the two particular cases considered, however, the quality of its results was moderately affected by the effects of the three-dimensional characteristics of the dam-break flow and the sliding of the dike body due to sub-surface flow. The results of this investigation highlight the importance of including a higher-order Boussinesq-type correction for refining sediment transport computations.

On the Hydraulic Characteristics of Submerged Flow over Trapezoidal-Shaped Weirs

Zerihun Yebegaeshet T.

Archives of Hydro-Engineering and Environmental Mechanics

2023

Vol. 70, nr 1

1--16

Subcritical flows over highway and railway embankments, commonly encountered during flood events, can be treated like submerged flows over trapezoidal-shaped weirs. In earlier studies, the equation of the submerged-flow discharge for such types of weirs was developed as a function of the degree of submergence and free-flow discharge. However, the application of this equation in practice requires a pre-determined discharge from experiments performed under free-flowconditions. In this study, a discharge equation was deduced from the streamwise momentum balance equation, which overcomes the drawback of the previous approaches. The results of the validation demonstrated that the proposed equation is capable of predicting the submerged-flow discharge of a trapezoidal-shaped weir within 6:0% of the measured value. Furthermore, the most prominent features of the submerged overflows were examined by systematically analyzing the experimental data. For such flows, the free-surface and bed-pressure profiles are self-similar only over the upstream face of the weir. Results of this investigation confirmed that the degree of submergence and the slope of the downstream weir face significantly affect the characteristics of the submerged flow, but the effect of the latter on the non-modular discharge is marginal.