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Tracking bed load particles in a steep flume: Methods and results.

Heyman, Joris  
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Ancey, Christophe  
Schleiss, Anton
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De Cesare, Giovanni  
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2014
Proceedings of River Flow 2014, Internantional Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics
River Flow 2014

In this paper, we present an experimental study about the motion of bed load particles in water. Recent developments in the stochastic theory of bed load transport call for precise experimental data to validate the models. We set up the experiment in a tilted narrow flume, where we could control water discharge. The erodible bed was made of natural rounded particles of mean diameter 8 mm. Two high speed cameras, disposed next two each other, recorded the transport process at 200 frames per seconds over an observation window of approximatively 1 meter and during periods of 150 seconds. Contrasting with previous experimental study that aimed to track moving particles, we imposed ourselves three constraints: (i) all moving particles have to be tracked, (ii) tracking should be fully automatic, (iii) bed load transport rates have to be measured independently. The former constraint is mandatory to correctly compare to theoretical predictions while the second is a condition to be able to get large samples of trajectories in relatively short time periods. The latter is obviously needed to validate the algorithm. After briefly introducing the numerical treatment that allow the particle tracking, we present some interesting results about the bed load particles dynamics.

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conference paper
Web of Science ID

WOS:000347400100113

Author(s)
Heyman, Joris  
Ancey, Christophe  
Editors
Schleiss, Anton
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De Cesare, Giovanni  
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Franca, Mário J.  
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Pfister, Michael  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

CRC Press / Balkema - Taylor & Francis Group

Publisher place

London, UK

Published in
Proceedings of River Flow 2014, Internantional Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics
ISBN of the book

978-1-138-02674-2

Volume

River Flow 2014

Start page

138

Subjects

Bed load particle

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Steep flume

Note

Abstract in book, article in usb key

Editorial or Peer reviewed

NON-REVIEWED

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LHE  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
River Flow 2014

Lausanne, CH

September 3-5

Available on Infoscience
September 23, 2014
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/107007
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