Suspended sediment concentration distribution using Tsallis entropy Academic Article

abstract

• Assuming sediment movement in channel flow as steady, Tsallis entropy is employed for deriving the distribution of sediment concentration. This distribution is found to be analogous to the distribution obtained from a random walk model. The sediment concentration distribution parameters are obtained from physical considerations. With these parameters, the distribution is tested using experimental observations and its sensitivity is evaluated. The agreement between entropy-based distribution and laboratory observations is found to be close. 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

authors

• Singh, Vijay

published proceedings

• PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

• Singh, V. P., & Cui, H.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Singh, Vijay P||Cui, Huijuan

publication date

• November 2014

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications  Journal

keywords

• Constraints
• Lagrange Multipliers
• Random Walk
• Sediment Concentration
• Tsallis Entropy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.physa.2014.06.075

start page

• 31

end page

• 42

volume

• 414

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.physa.2014.06.075