A computer model has been used to estimate soil loss and sediment yield from irregular field-size units of small watersheds. Input to the model includes spring data (i.e. relating to February through May) for the independent variables of the Universal Soil Loss Equation, and for factors such as surf
Erosion and sedimentation of a bump in fluvial flow
✍ Scribed by Pierre-Yves Lagrée
- Book ID
- 104446177
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Volume
- 328
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1620-7742
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✦ Synopsis
The 2D laminar quasistationary interacting boundary layer flow with mass transport of a suspended sediment is solved over an erodable bump (or dune) in the case of a fluvial régime. It is assumed that if the skin friction goes over a threshold value, the bump is eroded, then, the concentration of sediment in suspension is convected but falls at a constant settling velocity. This changes the shape of the dune, exemples of displacement toward final equilibrium states are presented. © 2000 Académie des sciences/Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS
interacting boundary layer / sedimentation / erosion / asymptotic methods
Érosion et sédimentation d'une dune en régime fluvial
Résumé.
Nous étudions un écoulement 2D stationnaire laminaire en régime fluvial avec le point de vue de la couche limite interactive. Les équations dynamiques et l'équation de la masse sont résolues simultanément. La forme de la dune évolue de par l'arrachement qui se produit lorsque le frottement pariétal dépasse une certaine valeur seuil et de par la sédimentation qui se produit à vitesse constante. Des exemples de déformations de dunes sont présentés.
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