Study of sediment transport in the saltation regime

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2007-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/0705.3143v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

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8 figures, submitted to PRE

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.78.011301

We present a study of sediment transport in the creeping and saltation regime. In our model, a bed of particles is simulated with the conventional event-driven method. The particles are considered as hard disks in a 2d domain, with periodic boundary conditions in horizontal direction. The flow of the fluid over this bed of particles is modeled by imposing a force on each particle that depends on the velocity of the fluid and its height above the bed. We considered two velocity profiles for the fluid, parabolic and logarithmic. The first one models laminar flow and the second corresponds to turbulent flow. For each case we investigated the behavior of the saturated flux. We found that for the logarithmic profile, the saturated flux shows a quadratic increase with the strength of the flow, and for parabolic profile, a cubic increase. The velocity distribution functions are used to interpret the results.

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