Keywords
oscillatory flow
sediment transport
bed load
suspended load
morphodynamics
immersed boundary
large eddy simulation
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Abstract
The objective of the present study was to study the morphodynamical development of ripples in a movable bed. The methodology is based on the coupling of fluid flow, sediment transport and morphodynamics. A well-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) is employed for the simulation of the three-dimensional turbulent oscillatory flow and the corresponding bed and suspended sediment transport over a rippled bed. The evolution of the bed form is obtained by the numerical solution of the Exner equation based on the spanwise-mean flow and sediment transport conditions. The Immersed Boundary method is implemented for the imposition of fluid and sediment boundary conditions on the moving bed surface. Results are presented for ripple creation and propagation from a quasi-flat bed, as well as results of initially sinusoidal ripples adapting to water conditions, based on the mobility number, ψ. The numerical model demonstrates phenomena of ripple creation, propagation and migration, resulting in ripple lengths in agreement with those predicted by empirical equations. It was shown that under the same hydrodynamic forcing, the bed tends to reach the same equilibrium state, regardless of the initial bed form.References
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