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- Title
A Shear Reynolds Number-Based Classification Method of the Nonuniform Bed Load Transport.
- Authors
Török, Gergely T.; Józsa, János; Baranya, Sándor
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to introduce a novel method which can separate sand- or gravel-dominated bed load transport in rivers with mixed-size bed material. When dealing with large rivers with complex hydrodynamics and morphodynamics, the bed load transport modes can indicate strong variation even locally, which requires a suitable approach to estimate the locally unique behavior of the sediment transport. However, the literature offers only few studies regarding this issue, and they are concerned with uniform bed load. In order to partly fill this gap, we suggest here a decision criteria which utilizes the shear Reynolds number. The method was verified with data from field and laboratory measurements, both performed at nonuniform bed material compositions. The comparative assessment of the results show that the shear Reynolds number-based method operates more reliably than the Shields–Parker diagram and it is expected to predict the sand or gravel transport domination with a <5% uncertainty. The results contribute to the improvement of numerical sediment transport modeling as well as to the field implementation of bed load transport measurements.
- Subjects
BED load; RIVER channels; GRAIN size; REYNOLDS number; SEDIMENT transport
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2019, Vol 11, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w11010073