TY - JOUR AU - Hsu, Hung-Chu AU - Torres-Freyermuth, A. AU - Hsu, Tian-Jian AU - Hwung, Hwung-Hweng PY - 2012/10/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DAM-BREAK FLOOD PROPAGATION AND ITS IMPLICATION TO SEDIMENT EROSION JF - Coastal Engineering Proceedings JA - Int. Conf. Coastal. Eng. VL - 1 IS - 33 SE - Sediment Transport and Morphology DO - 10.9753/icce.v33.sediment.7 UR - https://icce-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/icce/article/view/6495 SP - sediment.7 AB - Regarding the hydrodynamics, within the past two decades it has become popular in numerical modeling of free-surface flow to adopt a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes approach, where the volume of fluid (VOF) method is utilized to track the evolution of free-surface. However, this robust numerical model has not been widely applied to the study of sediment transport processes. In this study, we shall extend the numerical model to simulate suspended sediment transport and study the erosion pattern during the initial stage of the dam break flow. We also conducted a series of experiments in a horizontal channel of rectangular section and recorded the snap shots of surface profiles of a dam- break wave during the initial stage of dam-break. Measured data is utilized here to study the hydrodynamics and to validate the numerical model. ER -