NUMERICAL MODELING OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Modeling of sediment transport is of fundamental importance in water resource planning and development. Water resource developments on alluvial streams often require routing of sediment loads through the water resource systems. This routing depends on transport characteristics of constituent hydraulic structures. Small scale physical modeling of sediment transport through these structures is generally not feasible because it is difficult to satisfy simultaneously the governing equations for hydraulic and sediment phenomena. The complexity of these equations is almost prohibitive for explicit, analytical treatment. Numerical (computer) models are, therefore, being developed increasingly to describe mathematically these phenomena. This study develops three computer models of sediment transport in hydraulic structures. These models relate specifically to vortex tube and traps, irrigation turnouts, and bed level transients in sand-bed irrigation canals.

author list (cited authors)

  • Mahmood, K., & Singh, V. P.

complete list of authors

  • Mahmood, K||Singh, VP

publication date

  • January 2017