to control the nonlinear numerical instability, throughout the time evolution of the eulerian form of the nonlinear rotating shallow water equations, it is necessary to add numerical diffusion to the solution. it is clear that, this extra numerical diffusion degrades the accuracy of the numerical solution and should be kept as small as possible. in a conventional approach a hyper-diffusion is u...

soil detachment is known as an important process in soil erosion and its quantification is necessary to establish a basic understanding of erosion. this study was carried out to find the best flow erosivity indicator(s) for predicting detachment rate at low slopes. for this purpose, 12 experiments including 6 flow discharges (75, 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 ml/s) and 2 slope gradients (1.5 and 2...

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Implications for flow resistance and sediment transport Michael P. Lamb* , Fanny Brun and Brian M. Fuller Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125 *[email protected] Key Points: 1. Direct measurements of lift and drag forces were made on cobbles in steep flume experiments with shallow, rough flow over a planar bed 2. As flows shall...

We present a new hybrid numerical method for computing the transport of a passive pollutant by a flow. The flow is modeled by the Saint-Venant system of shallow water equations and the pollutant propagation is described by a transport equation. The idea behind the new finite-volume-particle (FVP) method is to use different schemes for the flow and the pollution computations: the shallow water e...

To measure the flow dynamics at the surface of shallow water flows over a large measuring field, a simple and reliable method has been developed using the advantages of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). Besides the determination of mean flow conditions and turbulent flow characteristics, this method makes it possible to track two-dimensional large coherent structures, which are the dominating f...