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A Study Of Particle Entrainment In Two Common Particle-Fluid Flows In Nature: Bedload Transport In Rivers And Debris Flows In Upland Regions

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A Study Of Particle Entrainment In Two Common Particle-Fluid Flows In Nature: Bedload Transport In Rivers And Debris Flows In Upland Regions

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2020-05

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This work performed for the research describes in this dissertation concerns particle entrainment in two common particle-fluid flows in nature: 1) bedload transport in rivers, and 2) debris flows in steep upland regions. The bedload transport work addressed here concerns height-dependent entrainment from a bed of a channelized flow. Towards this, we perform distinct element method (DEM) simulations to study the roles of particle size and fluid flow on the transport rate, bed surface variations, and depth-dependent particle entrainment. We do so in the context of a theoretical probabilistic formulation derived to better capture spatial variation in sediment exchange between bed material load and alluvial deposits (Parker et al. (2000)). Our findings allow us to provide a link between the longitudinal bedload transport rate with vertical bed surface statistics and provide closure for a theoretical model designed to model transport and bed-surface exchange in the presence of bed variabilities. The debris flow erosion work here focuses on the effect of grain size distribution of a debris flow on the rate of entrainment of bed material. Towards this, we perform several experiments in a laboratory flume where we measure the relative roles of inclination angle, bed composition, and average flow composition on average and instantaneous erosion dynamics. Most significantly, we find that the infiltration of fine particles into a coarse bed can markedly increase the rate of erosion. Further, the infiltration rate is maximized for intermediate concentrations of small particles in the flow. We show this is due to the interplay of two simultaneous mechanisms: (1) segregation dynamics known as kinetic sieving in the shear flow when there is sufficient agitation of the coarse particles to allow the small particles to sink into the bed and (2) correlated interparticle forces which create sufficient agitation only with an adequately high concentration of coarse particles. In this presentation, we demonstrate how a better understanding of these two processes can contribute to a better understanding of the "sediment cycle" in earth-surface dynamics.

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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2020. Major: Civil Engineering. Advisor: Kimberly Hill. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 160 pages.

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Ghasemi, Amirreza. (2020). A Study Of Particle Entrainment In Two Common Particle-Fluid Flows In Nature: Bedload Transport In Rivers And Debris Flows In Upland Regions. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/215167.

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