Sediment transport under oscillatory flows
arXiv:2009.01541 · doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2020.103454
Abstract
The results of Direct Numerical Simulations of the oscillatory flow over a cohesionless bed of spherical particles, mimicking sediment grains, are described. The flow around the sediment particles is explicitly computed by using the immersed boundary method, which allows the force and torque acting on the particles to be evaluated along with their dynamics. Different values of the Reynolds number and different values of the ratio between the grain size and the thickness of the boundary layer are considered such that the results are useful to quantify the sand transport generated by sea waves in the region offshore of the breaker line. Therefore, the results are used to test the capability of empirical sediment transport formulae to predict the sediment transport rate during the oscillatory cycle.
25 pages, 19 figures, Accepted for publication in "International Journal of Multiphase Flow"
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