Bed roughness and grain sorting- an experimental study over fine to medium sand beds

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摘要 Therelationbetweengrain-sizedistributionofthebedandinsuspensionwascriticallyexaminedunderauniformflowvelocityof50cm/sovertwobeds:oneofmainlyfinesandsandtheotherofmediumsands.Twosections-one2.85mdownstreamandtheother6.35mdownstreamintheexperimentalchannel-wereselectedforsamplingtostudythegrain-sortingpatternintheverticaldirectionalongthedirectionoftransport.Theshapeandtypeofthegrain-sizedistributionpatternwerecriticallystudiedwithheightabovethebed.Thechangeinthedistributionpatternhasbeenattributedtothechangeoflocalbedroughnesscausingscouringagainsttheprotrudedrelativelycoarsegrainsonthebed.Suchtrendsareimportanttopredictthenatureofriverbedtopography.ThesandofBed-1initiallyexhibitsalog-skew-Laplacedistributionatdifferentheightsofsuspension.Thedistributionpattern,however,changesbutthischangingpatternisnotconsistentalongtheupstreamside.ForBed-2,whichinitiallyexhibitsalog-normaldistribution,thesamepatternpersistsfromtheheightofsuspensionat5cmupto20cm.Suchconsistencyinlog-normalityisalsoobservedatthedownstreampointsofmeasurement.Itisgenerallyexpectedthatthemeangrain-sizewouldreducewithincreasesofsuspensionheightbuttheresultsoftheexperiments,insomeoccasions,differsignificantlyfromthegradualfiningupwardtrend.Thisresulthasbeenattributedtolocalchangesofbedroughnessarisingfromtheprotrudedrelativelycoarsegrainscausingeddies,scouring,andturbulentphenomenawhichmovescoarseparticleshigherinsuspensionaddingacoarsetailtothedistributionincreasingthemeangrain-size.
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出版日期 2017年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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