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Jing Liu, Zongyu Li, Hanming Huang, Weiwei Lin, Zhilin Sun and Fanjun Chen
In response to the deficiencies in existing bridge pier scour protection technologies, this paper introduces a novel protective device, namely a normal distribution-shaped surface (BND) protection devices formed by rotating a concave normal curve. A thre...
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Ke Hu, Xinglan Bai and Murilo A. Vaz
To investigate the different influencing characteristics of local scour around submarine pipelines, hydrodynamic and sediment transport two-dimensional models based on Flow-3D are used to numerically simulate the local scour around the pipeline under ste...
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Muhammad Waqas Zaffar, Ishtiaq Haasan and Abdul Razzaq Ghumman
The present study investigated the performance of three different stilling basins, i.e., modified United State Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) Type III, USBR Type II, and wedge-shaped baffle blocks (WSBB), using FLOW-3D scour models. Field data of the river...
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Ruigeng Hu, Xiuhai Wang, Hongjun Liu and Da Chen
In this study, the local scour around tripods in random waves is numerically investigated. The seabed-tripod-fluid numerical model with an RNG k-e turbulence model is built and validated. Following that, the scour characteristics and flow velocity distri...
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Minghao Wu, Leen De Vos, Carlos Emilio Arboleda Chavez, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, Paulo Rosa-Santos, Francisco Taveira-Pinto and Peter Troch
This paper presents a series of large-scale wave flume experiments on the scour protection damage around a monopile under combined waves and current conditions with model scales of 1:16.67 and 1:8.33. The main objective is to compare the damage data obta...
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Sara Corvaro, Andrea Crivellini, Francesco Marini, Andrea Cimarelli, Loris Capitanelli and Alessandro Mancinelli
The present study provides an extensive analysis on the hydrodynamics induced by a vertical slender pile under wave action. The authors carried out the study both experimentally and numerically, thus enabling a deep understanding of the flow physics. The...
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Jian Ning, Guodong Li and Shanshan Li
The spacing of spur dikes is an important consideration for the layout of spur dike channels. This study focuses on the local scour morphology and flow field characteristics of spur dikes with different spacings. The results show that the maximum scour d...
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Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, Francisco Taveira-Pinto, Paulo Rosa-Santos and João Chambel
The present paper provides a reliability assessment of scour protections applicable to both the static and dynamic stability design. As a case study, Horns Rev 3 hindcast data is used to simulate different failure criteria for an exemplary scour protecti...
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Badal Mahalder, John S. Schwartz, Angelica M. Palomino and Jon Zirkle
The jet test device has been predominantly used for in situ critical shear stress (tc) and erodibility coefficient (kd) measurements of cohesive streambanks/beds using three analytical procedures: the Blaisdell method (BM), the iterative approach (IP), a...
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Yilin Yang, Meilan Qi, Jinzhao Li and Xiaodong Ma
This study concerns the evolution of flow field and hydrodynamic characteristics within the developing scour hole around a four-pile group with 2 × 2 arrangement. The instantaneous velocities in scour holes at four typical stages during the scouring proc...
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