The aim of this experimental study is to investigate the interaction between turbulent flow and a gravel-bed that mimics the actual roughness structures of a natural bed and its implication on sediment transport. In particular, the response of the Reynolds stresses and the role of intermittency to the bed roughness is the primary focus of the current study. To this end, the flow field, measured with an AcousticeDoppler Velocimeter (ADV), is thoroughly examined, considering the conditional Reynolds shear stresses and the high-order structure functions of velocity. The study results show that the features and the roughness structure of the water-worked gravel-bed (WWGB) have a strong impact on bursting events. The reason for this is attributed to the flow layer above the crest in the WWGBs being primarily affected by sweep events rather than ejection events, although the latter events are prevalent in this flow layer in an immobile, man-made, gravel-bed. These coherent structures, which are primarily responsible for sediment transport, also are the key cause of the presence of an intermittency excess that breaks the Kolmogorov self-similarity hypothesis, leading to multi-fractal behavior of the velocity structure functions.

Nadia Penna;Ellora Padhi;Subhasish Dey;Roberto Gaudio

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile,Universit(a) Della Calabria,Rende,CS,87036,Italy;Department of Civil Engineering,Shiv Nadar University,Greater Noida,Uttar Pradesh,201314,India;Department of Civil Engineering,Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur,West Bengal,721302,India

国际泥沙研究（英文版）

[1]Nadia Penna;Ellora Padhi;Subhasish Dey;Roberto Gaudio-.Response of Reynolds stresses and scaling behavior of high-order structure functions to a water-worked gravel-bed surface and its implication on sediment transport)[J].国际泥沙研究（英文版）,2022(01):1-13

AcousticeDoppler,Velocimeter,WWGB,WWGBs

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