Modeling bed shear-stress fluctuations in a shallow tidal channel

Fluctuations of Turbulent Bed Shear Stress

With the assumption that the bed shear stress fluctuates in a lognormal fashion, the probability density function (pdf) of the standardised bed shear stress is derived as a function of the relative shear stress intensity. The pdf is more skewed with larger relative intensities, but approaches a Gaussian function when the relative intensity is small. The computed pdf agrees well with the reporte...

Boundary Shear Stress in a Trapezoidal Channel

This paper focuses on a hydraulic radius separation approach used to calculate the boundary shear stress in terms of bed and wall shear stress proposed in a trapezoidal channel. The average bed and sidewall shear stress in smooth trapezoidal open channels are derived after using Guo & Julien (2005) early equations taking a part of an investigation to cover both rectangular and trapezoidal chann...

Mathematical Modeling of Flow in a Granular Permeable Bed Channel

In this research, a two-dimensional mathematical model using  turbulence model was developed in a rectangular channel with granular permeable bed. Finite volume method was used for numerical solution of governing equations. The equations considered are discretized using Hybrid difference scheme while applying SIMPLE algorithm to correct velocity components in the continuity equation. In the dev...

Coupling a Boundary Layer Wall Shear-stress Model with Field Experiments in a Shallow Tidal River

Recently, Mathis et al. (2011) developed a conceptual approach that is able to predict instantaneous wall-shear stress fluctuations in turbulent boundary layers. This approach embeds the scale interaction mechanisms, namely superposition and modulation, into a wall-model capable of predicting the fluctuating component of the streamwise wall-shear stress. The present study investigates the poten...

Modeling the tidal and sub-tidal hydrodynamics in a shallow, micro-tidal estuary