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Plunging condition for particle-laden flows over sloping bottoms: three-dimensional turbulence-resolving simulations

  • 1. School of Technology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • 2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Description

This repository contains the dataset from our work "Plunging condition for particle-laden flows over sloping bottoms: three-dimensional turbulence-resolving simulations", accepted for publication at Computers & Geosciences.

Abstract: Hyperpycnal flows are observed when the density of a fluid entering into a quiescent basin is greater than that of the ambient fluid. This difference can be due to temperature, salinity, turbidity, concentration, or a combination of them. Over a sloping bottom, the inflowing momentum decreases progressively until a critical point is reached where the inflow plunges under the ambient fluid and flows along the bed as an underflow density current. In the present work, a new equation is proposed in order to predict the critical depth for plunging, i.e., the plunging criterion. It differs from previous studies since it includes the role of the settling velocity and the bed slope. The high spatiotemporal resolution from twelve original numerical simulations allows us to validate the initial hypotheses established, in addition to numerical and experimental data available in the literature, and good agreement is found between them. A negative value for the mixing coefficient was observed for the first time for the hyperpycnal flow in a tilted channel. This indicates that if the settling velocity of the suspended material is high enough, the submerged flow may lose fluid to the environment (detrainment), instead of incorporating it. The proposed plunging criterion may assist in the design of future experimental or numerical works.

Description: Data from the twelve simulations are included. The output files from Xcompact3d were converted to NetCDF, including coordinates and metadata, aiming to be more friendly than raw binaries.

More details are available at the GitHub repository, including examples about how to read and plot the dataset using Python and Xarray.

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