Journal Title
Title of Journal: Environ Fluid Mech
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Abbravation: Environmental Fluid Mechanics
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Adrian C H Lai Bing Zhao Adrian WingKeung Law E Eric Adams
Publish Date: 2013/02/12
Volume: 13, Issue: 5, Pages: 435-463
Abstract
A sediment cloud release in stagnant ambient fluid occurs in many engineering applications Examples include land reclamation and disposal of dredged materials The detailed modeling of the distinct characteristics of both the solid and fluid phases of the sediment cloud is hitherto unavailable in the literature despite their importance in practice In this paper the twophase mixing characteristics of the sediment cloud are investigated both experimentally and theoretically Experiments were carried out to measure the transient depth penetration and the lateral spread of the sediment cloud and its entrained fluid using the laser induced fluorescence technique with a range of particle sizes frequently encountered in the field modeled at laboratory scale A twophase model of the sediment cloud that provides detailed predictions of the mixing characteristics of the individual phases is also proposed The entrained fluid characteristics are solved by an integral model accounting for the buoyancy loss due to particle separation in each time step The flow field induced by the sediment cloud is approximated by a Hill’s spherical vortex centered at the centroid and with the size of the entrained fluid The particle equation of motion under the effect of the induced flow governs each computational particle A random walk model using the hydrodynamic diffusion coefficient is used to account for the random fluctuation of particles in the dispersive regime Overall the model predictions of the twophase mixing characteristics are in good agreement with the experimental data for a wide range of release conditionsThis research was supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore through the SingaporeMIT Alliance for Research and Technology’s CENSAM IRG research programme We also acknowledge the anonymous reviewers for the comments and suggestions made which have improved the manuscript
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