Two-dimensional Lagrangian simulation of suspended sediment

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
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Abstract

A two‐dimensional laterally averaged model for suspended sediment transport in steady gradually varied flow that is based on the Lagrangian reference frame is presented. The layered Lagrangian transport model (LLTM) for suspended sediment performs laterally averaged Lagrangian calculations with steady or unsteady upstream boundary concentration. The elevations of nearly horizontal streamlines and the simulation time step are selected to optimize model stability and efficiency. The computational elements are parcels of water that are moved along the streamlines in the Lagrangian sense and are mixed with neighboring parcels. The bottom boundary condition can be either a near‐bed concentration or a sediment pick‐up rate. Three applications show that the LLTM can accurately simulate theoretical and empirical nonequilibrium suspended sediment distributions and slug injections of suspended sediment in a laboratory flume.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Two-dimensional Lagrangian simulation of suspended sediment
Series title Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
DOI 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(1988)114:10(1192)
Volume 114
Issue 10
Year Published 1988
Language English
Publisher ASCE
Description 18 p.
First page 1192
Last page 1209
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