Numerical Study of Alternate Bars in Alluvial Channels With Nonuniform Sediment.

Cordier, Florian; Tassi, Pablo; Claude, Nicolas; Crosato, Alessandra; Rodrigues, Stéphane et Pham Van Bang, Damien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8669-0724 (2019). Numerical Study of Alternate Bars in Alluvial Channels With Nonuniform Sediment. Water Resources Research , vol. 55 , nº 4. pp. 2976-3003. DOI: 10.1029/2017WR022420.

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Rivers typically present heterogeneous bed material, but the effects of sediment nonuniformity on river bar characteristics are still unclear. This work investigates the impact of sediment size heterogeneity on alternate bars with a morphodynamic numerical model. The model is first used to reproduce a laboratory experiment showing alternate bar formation with nonuniform bed material. Subsequently, the influence of sediment size heterogeneity on alternate bars is investigated distinguishing hybrid from free bars, definition based on the presence/absence of morphodynamic forcing, considering the results of nine scenarios. In four of them, a transverse obstacle is used to generate forcing. The computations are carried out with the Telemac‐Mascaret system solving the two‐dimensional shallow‐water equations with a finite element approach, accounting for horizontal and vertical sediment sorting processes. The results show that sediment heterogeneity affects free migrating and hybrid bars in a different way. The difference lies in the presence/absence of a migration front, so that distinct relations between bed topography, bed shear stress, and sediment sorting are obtained. Sediment sorting and associated planform redistribution of bed roughness only slightly modify free migrating bar morphodynamics, whereas hybrid bars are greatly impacted, with decreased amplitude and increased wavelength. Increased sediment size heterogeneity increases the degree of sediment sorting, while the sorting pattern remains the same for both free and hybrid bars. Moreover, it produces averagely higher, longer, and faster free bars, while in the case of hybrid bars their wavelength is increased but no general trend can be determined for their amplitude.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	alternate bars; sediment size heterogeneity; sediment sorting; numerical modeling; alluvial channels
Centre:	Centre Eau Terre Environnement
Date de dépôt:	01 mai 2019 15:50
Dernière modification:	15 févr. 2022 21:12
URI:	https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/8048

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