SedFoam: A multi-dimensional Eulerian two-phase model for sediment transport and its application to momentary bed failure

Z Cheng, TJ Hsu, J Calantoni - Coastal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
A multi-dimensional Eulerian two-phase model for sediment transport, called SedFoam, is
presented. The model was developed under the open-source framework via the CFD …

Confronting grand challenges in environmental fluid mechanics

T Dauxois, T Peacock, P Bauer, CP Caulfield… - Physical review fluids, 2021 - APS
Environmental fluid mechanics underlies a wealth of natural, industrial, and, by extension,
societal challenges. In the coming decades, as we strive towards a more sustainable planet …

Large‐eddy simulation of wave‐breaking induced turbulent coherent structures and suspended sediment transport on a barred beach

Z Zhou, TJ Hsu, D Cox, X Liu - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To understand the interaction between wave‐breaking induced turbulent coherent structures
and suspended sediment transport, we report a Large‐Eddy Simulation (LES) study of wave …

Numerical investigation of sediment transport mechanism under breaking waves by DEM-MPS coupling scheme

T Tazaki, E Harada, H Gotoh - Coastal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Plunging waves generate vortices that suspend significant amounts of sediment in the key
sediment transport mechanism in the surf and swash zones of beaches, causing major …

Direct numerical simulations of ripples in an oscillatory flow

M Mazzuoli, AG Kidanemariam… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Sea ripples are small-scale bedforms which originate from the interaction of an oscillatory
flow with an erodible sand bed. The phenomenon of sea ripple formation is investigated by …

A numerical study of sheet flow driven by velocity and acceleration skewed near-breaking waves on a sandbar using SedWaveFoam

Y Kim, RS Mieras, Z Cheng, D Anderson, TJ Hsu… - Coastal …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new methodology capable of concurrently resolving free surface wave field, bottom
boundary layer, and sediment transport processes throughout the entire water column was …

The design and calibration of instrumented particles for assessing water infrastructure hazards

K Al-Obaidi, Y Xu, M Valyrakis - Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 2020 - mdpi.com
The highly dynamical entrainment and transport processes of solids due to geophysical
flows is a major challenge studied by water infrastructure engineers and geoscientists alike …

A sensory instrumented particle for environmental monitoring applications: Development and calibration

K Al-Obaidi, M Valyrakis - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A plethora of environmental sensing applications, including geomorphic, ecohydraulic and
turbulent flow processes, involve the monitoring of the stability of bed surface particles. This …

Linking the explicit probability of entrainment of instrumented particles to flow hydrodynamics

K AlObaidi, M Valyrakis - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Obtaining a better understanding of the underlying dynamics of the interaction of turbulent
flows and the bed surface that contains them, leading to the transport of coarse particles in …

[HTML][HTML] Inertial drag and lift forces for coarse grains on rough alluvial beds measured using in-grain accelerometers

G Maniatis, T Hoey, R Hodge… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - esurf.copernicus.org
Quantifying the force regime that controls the movement of a single grain during fluvial
transport has historically proven to be difficult. Inertial micro-electromechanical system …