Experimental and computational investigation of local scour around bridge piers

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 73-85

  Khosronejad, Ali ^a   Kang, Seokkoo ^a   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge pier; Immersed boundary method; Local scour; Numerical modeling; Sediment transport; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

BED LOAD; BED SHEAR STRESSS; BLUNT LEADING EDGES; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE-VOLUME FORMULATION; FRACTIONAL STEP METHODS; GRID RESOLUTION; GRID SENSITIVITY; HORSESHOE VORTICES; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; LEADING EDGE; LOCAL SCOUR; MORPHODYNAMIC MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELING; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; SCOUR DEPTH; SECOND ORDERS; SHARP EDGES; SHEAR LAYER; SQUARE SHAPE; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BRIDGE PIERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

SCOUR;

ALGORITHM; BRIDGE; CROSS SECTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; MORPHODYNAMICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SCOUR; TURBULENCE; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 84855216595     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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