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Experimental and computational investigation of local scour around bridge piers

Authors
Khosronejad, AliKang, Seok kooSotiropoulos, Fotis
Issue Date
Mar-2012
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Keywords
Bridge pier; Turbulent flow; Local scour; Immersed boundary method; Numerical modeling; Sediment transport
Citation
ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES, v.37, no. , pp.73 - 85
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Journal Title
ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES
Volume
37
Start Page
73
End Page
85
URI
https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/166014
DOI
10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.09.013
ISSN
0309-1708
Abstract
Experiments and numerical simulations are carried out to study clear-water scour around three bridge piers with cylindrical, square, and diamond cross-sectional shape, respectively. To handle movable-bed channels with embedded hydraulic structures, the fluid-structure interaction curvilinear immersed boundary (FSI-CURVIB) method is employed. The hydrodynamic model solves the unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) equations closed with the k-omega turbulence model using a second-order accurate fractional step method. Bed erosion is simulated by solving the sediment continuity equation in the bed-load layer using a second-order accurate unstructured, finite-volume formulation with a sand-slide, bed-slope-limiting algorithm. Grid sensitivity studies are carried out to investigate the effect of grid resolution on the predictive capability of the model. Comparisons of the simulations with the experimental data show that for all three cases the agreement is reasonable. A major finding of this work, however, is that the predictive capability of the URANS morphodynamic model improves dramatically for the diamond shape pier for which sediment transport is driven primarily by the shear layers shed from the pier sharp edges. For piers with blunt leading edge, on the other hand, as the circular and square shapes, the URANS model cannot resolve the energetic horseshoe vortex system at the pier/bed junction and thus significantly underpredicts both the scour depth at the nose of the pier and the rate of scour growth. It is also shown that ad hoc empirical corrections that modify the calculated critical bed shear stress to enhance scour rate in the pier leading edge need to be applied with caution as their predictive capabilities are not universal but rather depend on the pier shape and the region of the flow.
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