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Submergence effects on jet behavior in scour by a plane wall jet

dc.contributor.advisorMazurek, Kerryen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPutz, Gordonen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKells, James A.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBugg, James D.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSharma, Jitendraen_US
dc.creatorGautam, Bishnu Prasaden_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-03-30T08:52:12Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T04:27:43Z
dc.date.available2009-04-01T08:00:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-01-04T04:27:43Z
dc.date.created2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.date.submitted2008en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this study, the effects of submergence on local scour in a uniform cohesionless sediment bed by a plane turbulent wall jet and the resulting flow field were investigated experimentally. Here, submergence is defined as the ratio of the tailwater depth to the thickness of the jet at its origin. The main focus was to determine scour dimensions at an asymptotic state, examine whether there was similarity in the velocity profiles for the flow in the scour hole, and to determine the growth of the length scales and decay of the maximum velocity of the jet. Also examined were the relationships between the scales for the velocity field in the scour hole and the scour hole size.In the experiments, the range of submergence was varied from 3-17.5, whereas the range of densimetric Froude number and the ratio of the boundary roughness to the gate opening (relative boundary roughness) were varied from 4.4-6.9 and 0.085-0.137 respectively. The velocity field in the scour hole at asymptotic state was measured using a SonTek 16-MHz MicroADV. Time development of the characteristic dimensions of the scour hole was also measured.The dimensions of the scour hole were found to increase with increasing submergence for all experiments with a “bed-jet” flow regime. In the bed-jet flow regime, the jet remains near the bed throughout the scouring process. Further, the time development of the scour hole dimensions were observed to increase approximately linearly with the logarithm of time up to a certain time before the beginning of asymptotic state for experiments with either the bed-jet or surface-jet flow regimes. The flow field results showed that the velocity profiles in the region of forward flow and the recirculating region above the jet were similar in shape up to about the location of the maximum scour depth. Relationships describing this velocity profile, including its velocity and length scales, were formulated. The decay rate of the maximum velocity, the growth of the jet half-width, and the boundary layer thickness were also studied. The decay and the growth rate of the jet length scales were found to be influenced by the submergence ratio, densimetric Froude number, and the relative boundary roughness.Two distinct stages in the decay of the maximum streamwise velocity, with distance along the direction of flow, were observed for the jet flows having a bed-jet flow regime. The first stage of velocity decay was characterized by a curvilinear decay of velocity, which followed that of a wall jet on a smooth, rigid bed for streamwise distance approximately equal to 2L. For the surface-jet flow regime, the decay of velocity was observed to be similar to that of a free-jump on a smooth, rigid bed for a streamwise distance approximately equal to L. Here, L is defined as the streamwise distance measured from the end of the rigid apron to where the maximum streamwise velocity in the jet is half the velocity of the jet at the end of apron. The streamwise maximum velocity of the jet was then seen to increase in what was called the recovery zone.A relationship for the streamwise decay of the maximum velocity within the scour hole is proposed. Moreover, other scales representing the flow inside the scour hole such as the streamwise distance from the end of the apron to where the streamwise maximum velocity starts to deviate from curvilinear to linear decay and the streamwise distance to where maximum streamwise velocity starts to increase are suggested. Some new results on the velocity distribution for the reverse flow for a “bed-jet” flow regime are also presented. Finally, some dimensionless empirical equations describing the relationship between the jet scales for the jet flow in a scour hole and the scour hole size are given.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-03302008-085212en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectdensimetric Froude numberen_US
dc.subjectcharacteristic dimensions fo scour holeen_US
dc.subjectasymptotic stateen_US
dc.subjectjet behavioren_US
dc.subjectboundary layer growthen_US
dc.subjectjet half-widthen_US
dc.subjectvelocity decayen_US
dc.subjectjet scalesen_US
dc.subjectsubmergence effecten_US
dc.subjectscouren_US
dc.subjectPlane wall jeten_US
dc.titleSubmergence effects on jet behavior in scour by a plane wall jeten_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentCivil Engineeringen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineCivil Engineeringen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (M.Sc.)en_US

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