TOWARD IMPROVING PREDICTION OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT OVER WAVE-INDUCED RIPPLES

Rafik Absi (1) , Hitoshi Tanaka (2)

1 EBI - Ecole de Biologie Industrielle, Inst. Polytech. St-Louis
2 Dept. Civil Engineering

Sediment transport over wave-induced ripples is a very complex phenomenon where available models fail to provide accurate predictions. For coastal engineering applications, the 1-DV advection-diffusion equation could be used with an additional parameter α related to the process of vortex shedding above ripples (Absi, 2010). The aim of this study is to provide simple practical analytical tools. An analytical eddy viscosity profile was validated by DNS data of turbulent channel flows (Absi et al., 2011). In this study, we will show that: (1) the period-averaged eddy viscosity in oscillatory boundary layers could be described by this simple analytical formulation; (2) The shape of the vertical profile is validated by period-averaged eddy viscosity of baseline (BSL) k-ω model (Suntoyo and Tanaka, 2009) for sinusoidal and asymmetric waves; (3) The vertical eddy viscosity profile depends on the wave non-linearity parameter and requires therefore a specific calibration.

Mots clés: Sediment transport; wave-induced ripples; period-averaged eddy viscosity; oscillatory boundary layers; analytical formulation; baseline (BSL) k-ω model; sinusoidal and asymmetric waves; wave non-linearity parameter

Domaines: Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]; Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]; Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]; Milieux et Changements globaux; Sciences de l'environnement; Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]

Rafik Absi, Hitoshi Tanaka. TOWARD IMPROVING PREDICTION OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT OVER WAVE-INDUCED RIPPLES. Tohoku Journal of Natural Disaster Science, 2011, 47, pp.213-218. ⟨hal-00598124v2⟩