Suspended-load experiments in a curved flume, run no. 4

A laboratory experiment in a 180 degree curved flume with a mobile bed and suspended sediment transport is described. The flow is steady. The median sediment diameter (160 micrometer) is larger than in the preceeding experiments, run no. 1 to 3 (90 micrometer). The bed topography is measured by means of a profile indicator. The bed topography is...

Suspended-load experiments in a curved flume, run no. 3

A laboratory experiment in a 180 degree curved flume with a mobile bed and suspended sediment transport is described. The flow is steady. The bed topography is measured by means of a profile indicator. The bed topography is characterized by a slowly damped oscillation of the transverse bed slope. Downstream of the bend entrance a pool and a...

Suspended-load experiments in a curved flume, run no. 2

A laboratory experiment in a 180 degree curved flume with a mobile bed and suspended sediment transport is described. The flow is steady. The aim the of experiment is to obtain data on the axi-symmetrical region. The bed topography is measured by means of a profile indicator. Downstream of the bend entrance a pool and a submerged point-bar are...

Suspended-load experiments in a curved flume, run no. 1

A laboratory experiment in a 180 degree curved flume with a mobile bed and suspended sediment transport is described. The flow is stationary. The main purpose of the experiment is to provide data to calibrate and test morphological models for river bend flow with suspended sediment. The bed topography is measured by means of an profile indicator...

Simulation of a curved flume bed-load experiment

The mathematical model for river bend morphology, as developed by Olesen, for bed-load transport is discussed, by comparing the results with some new experimental data. The model consists of a two-dimensional depth-averaged flow model together with a sediment balance and can be used to compute the dynamic river bend morphology. The main purpose...

A curved flume bed-load experiment

In this report the results of a bed-load experiment in a curved flume are presented. The experiments have been carried out in the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics (L.F.M.) at the Delft University of Technology. The main object of the experiments is to develop and to test data-acquisition procedures for future suspended-load experiments. At the same...

Method of Molerus and Wellman to Compute the Pressure Drop of Slurry Transport in Horizontal Pipes

In the literaturey many methods for the calculation of pipeline hydraulic transport of solids have been published. Their degree of exactness and applicability is variabie and therefore it is hard to the designer to make a convincible decision regarding their practical use. A new concept for the computation of slurry hydraulic transport in...

Model experiments with yacht keels

Experiments and computations on unsteady separating flow in an expanding flume

An unsteady, separating flow with a free surface was investigated with a physical model and a numerical model. To simulate tidal flow, the prescribed flow rate at the inflow boundary was a half-period sine function of time. Measurements of velocities and wave heights were conducted by using LDV and a wave-height meter in a straight open channel...

Tests on sailboat planing hull models

Experiments on Unsteady Seperating Flow in an Open Channel

Experiments on unsteady separating flow past a sudden expansion in an open channel are described. To simulate tidal flow the flow rate in the approach channel varied as a half-sine with time. Different visualization techniques to obtain an insight into the behaviour of the separating vortex in time and space were used. Laser-Doppler velocimetry ...

Steady turbulent flow in curved rectangular channels

After the study of fully developed and developing steady laminar flow in curved channels of shallow rectangular wet cross-section (see earlier reports in this series), steady turbulent flow in such channels is investigated as a next step towards a mathematical model of the flow in shallow river bends. A mathematical model is developed for this...

Two dimensional MHD duct flow: Numerical analysis and measurements