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Yu Bai1, Debao Lu2, Yinfeng Xia2
1Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhejiang, 310000, China. baiyu254477574@126.com.
Abstract:
In conventional research, the suspended sediment distribution in a channel under the action of floating canopy has been rarely studied. In this study, experiments on sediment transport in flume with fixed suspended vegetation were carried out under different velocity conditions. It was performed to examine the suspended sediment transport and distribution law as impacted by the floating canopy. The vertical distribution formula of velocity impacted by the floating canopy was derived based on improved two-layer theory. Combined with the random displacement model (RDM), a Lagrangian method was developed to simulate the suspended sediment transport under the action of the floating canopy. Compared with the experimental data, the R2 of vertical velocity simulation was higher than 0.96, and the vertical distribution of suspended sediment concentration varied significantly (4.64 to 19.83 g/L) following the vertical coordinate. Subsequently, the numerical model of sandy flow with the floating canopy was established by complying with the stratified sediment turbulence diffusion coefficient to predict the suspended sediment transport. Besides, the established numerical model can lay a theory basis for sediment transport in such channels (floating canopy channels).
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