Erosion of a granular bed driven by laminar fluid flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112008001389zbMATH Open1178.76038arXiv0805.0086OpenAlexW3106464131MaRDI QIDQ3529477FDOQ3529477

Authors: Alexander E. Lobkovsky, Ashish V. Orpe, Ryan Molloy, A. Kudrolli, Daniel H. Rothman 

Publication date: 13 October 2008

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by examples of erosive incision of channels in sand, we investigate the motion of individual grains in a granular bed driven by a laminar fluid to give us new insights into the relationship between hydrodynamic stress and surface granular flow. A closed cell of rectangular cross-section is partially filled with glass beads and a constant fluid flux $Q$ flows through the cell. The refractive indices of the fluid and the glass beads are matched and the cell is illuminated with a laser sheet, allowing us to image individual beads. The bed erodes to a rest height $h_r$ which depends on $Q$. The Shields threshold criterion assumes that the non-dimensional ratio $heta$ of the viscous stress on the bed to the hydrostatic pressure difference across a grain is sufficient to predict the granular flux. Furthermore, the Shields criterion states that the granular flux is non-zero only for $heta>het{a}_c$. We find that the Shields criterion describes the observed relationship $h_{r}propto{Q}^{1/2}$ when the bed height is offset by approximately half a grain diameter. Introducing this offset in the estimation of $heta$ yields a collapse of the measured Einstein number $q^{\ast }$ to a power-law function of $heta-het{a}_c$ with exponent $1.75pm0.25$. The dynamics of the bed height relaxation are well described by the power law relationship between the granular flux and the bed stress.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0086

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Granular flows (76T25)

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