3D Flow and Sediment Dynamics in a Laboratory Channel Bend with and without Stream Barbs
- 1 February 2013
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
- Vol. 139 (2), 154-166
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)hy.1943-7900.0000655
Abstract
A series of laboratory flume experiments were performed to study the effect of stream barbs on flow field dynamics and sediment erosion in a 135° mobile-bed channel bend. Stream barbs (also known as spur dikes or submerged groynes) are low-profile linear rock features that redirect high velocity flow away from the outer bank of channel bends. Unlike emergent groynes, the submerged nature of these structures creates a unique combination of horizontal shear (plunging type flow) and vertical shear (at the groyne tip). Spatially dense, high frequency velocity data were collected and analyzed to describe the pattern and magnitude of three-dimensional (3D) velocity throughout the bend and in the vicinity of the stream barbs. This paper demonstrates that the outer bank region (particularly between barbs) may still be at risk of erosion (or even increased erosion greater than the same case without barbs) if stream barbs generate excessive secondary velocities (because of their size and layout) that are opposing the primary secondary flow naturally occurring in channel bends. Characterizing the role of flow field dynamics on the pattern of deposition and erosion through experimental measurements provided valuable data about how such flow features contribute to local scour, and about the performance of these structures.Keywords
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