TY  - JOUR
A1  - Valero, Daniel
A1  - Bung, Daniel B.
A1  - Erpicum, Sebastien
A1  - Peltier, Yann
A1  - Dewals, Benjamin
T1  - Unsteady shallow meandering flows in rectangular reservoirs: a modal analysis of URANS modelling
JF  - Journal of Hydro-environment Research
N2  - Shallow flows are common in natural and human-made environments. Even for simple rectangular shallow reservoirs, recent laboratory experiments show that the developing flow fields are particularly complex, involving large-scale turbulent structures. For specific combinations of reservoir size and hydraulic conditions, a meandering jet can be observed. While some aspects of this pseudo-2D flow pattern can be reproduced using a 2D numerical model, new 3D simulations, based on the unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations, show consistent advantages as presented herein. A Proper Orthogonal Decomposition was used to characterize the four most energetic modes of the meandering jet at the free surface level, allowing comparison against experimental data and 2D (depth-averaged) numerical results. Three different isotropic eddy viscosity models (RNG k-ε, k-ε, k-ω) were tested. The 3D models accurately predicted the frequency of the modes, whereas the amplitudes of the modes and associated energy were damped for the friction-dominant cases and augmented for non-frictional ones. The performance of the three turbulence models remained essentially similar, with slightly better predictions by RNG k-ε model in the case with the highest Reynolds number. Finally, the Q-criterion was used to identify vortices and study their dynamics, assisting on the identification of the differences between: i) the three-dimensional phenomenon (here reproduced), ii) its two-dimensional footprint in the free surface (experimental observations) and iii) the depth-averaged case (represented by 2D models).
KW  - coherent structures
KW  - hydraulic modelling
KW  - model performance
KW  - Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
KW  - Q-criterion
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jher.2022.03.002
SN  - 1570-6443
IS  - In Press
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Biener, Ernst
A1  - Sasse, T.
A1  - Wernhoff, T.
T1  - Using harbour dredged material for combination sealing of the former Bockhorner Weg disposal site in Bremen, Germany
JF  - Proceedings of the International Harbour Congress. 13 (2003)
Y1  - 2003
N1  - International Harbour Congress <13, 2003, Antwerpen>
SP  - 101
EP  - 109
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Valero, Daniel
A1  - Bung, Daniel B.
T1  - Vectrino profiler spatial filtering for shear flows based on the mean velocity gradient equation
JF  - Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
N2  - A new methodology is proposed to spatially filter acoustic Doppler velocimetry data from a Vectrino profiler based on the differential mean velocity equation. Lower and upper bounds are formulated in terms of physically based flow constraints. Practical implementation is discussed, and its application is tested against data gathered from an open-channel flow over a stepped macroroughness surface. The method has proven to detect outliers occurring all over the distance range sampled by the Vectrino profiler and has shown to remain applicable out of the region of validity of the velocity gradient equation. Finally, a statistical analysis suggests that physically obtained bounds are asymptotically representative.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001485
SN  - 0733-9429
N1  - Article number 04018037
VL  - 144
IS  - 7
PB  - ASCE
CY  - Reston, Va.
ER  -