Experimental and Theoretical Study on Flood Bore Propagation and Forerunner Generation in Dam-Break Flow
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Experimental and Theoretical Study on Flood Bore Propagation and Forerunner Generation in Dam-Break Flow1 I. V. Shugana, b, *, Yang-Yih Chena, and Cheng-Jung Hsuc aDepartment
of Marine Environment and Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshiung, 804 Taiwan Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997 Russia c Department of Civil Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 70101 Taiwan *e-mail: [email protected] bShirshov
Received December 27, 2019; revised January 17, 2020; accepted January 20, 2020
Abstract—Dam-break flows are not only an important practical problem in civil and hydraulic engineering, but also a fundamental problem of fluid mechanics. Due to property damage and the loss of numerous lives, it is critically important to have an exhaustive understanding of the landslide dam-break flow and sedimentation. The main objective of this study is a detailed analysis of the mechanisms of dam-breaking flows through physical and theoretical modeling. Our experimental work was focused on the initial stages of dambreak flow in the water channel, where a thin plate separating water at different levels is impulsively withdrawn in the vertical direction upwards, and as a result, a hydrodynamic bore is formed. The theoretical model of the dam-break flow is based on Benney’s shallow water equations. We separately studied the regimes of a breaking and non-breaking bore front. On the hydrodynamic bore, the laws of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy were required in contrast to the classical solutions of Ritter and Stoker, in which the conservation of energy law was not considered at all. The non-breaking flow includes several zones: a shock wave and a shear vorticity flow after it, a contact surface and a continuous discharge zone. The bore in our solution moves faster than the classical bore, which, in turn, propagates faster than the contact surface. The breaking bore is characterized by the generation of a “mushroom-jet” structure, including a pair of vortices, oppositely directed, and a forerunner formed by the plunging jet directed forward. We found that the forerunner of the breaking bore has a speed significantly higher than the speed of the bore. The experiments carried out in the wave flume of the Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory confirmed the theoretical predictions of the proposed dam breaking flow model for various initial conditions. DOI: 10.3103/S1541308X20030188
1. INTRODUCTION Dam-break flows are an important practical problem and their prediction is now a required element in the design of a dam and its surrounding environment. Furthermore, the study of dam-break waves is extremely important in providing the information needed for risk assessment and management of river valleys. That information includes the influence of initial stages such as dam-break wave-front propagation and sedimentation. The idealized two-dimensional problem of the instantaneous removal of a barrier between two bodies of water at rest with different lev
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