Experimental evidence of statistical ensemble behavior in bed load sediment transport

SL Fathel, DJ Furbish… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A high‐resolution data set obtained from high‐speed imaging of coarse sand particles
transported as bed load allows us to confidently describe the forms and qualities of the …

Entrainment, motion, and deposition of coarse particles transported by water over a sloping mobile bed

J Heyman, P Bohorquez… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In gravel bed rivers, bed load transport exhibits considerable variability in time and space.
Recently, stochastic bed load transport theories have been developed to address the …

A statistical description of particle motion and rest regimes in open‐channel flows under low bedload transport

MX Liu, A Pelosi, M Guala - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade several efforts were devoted to model sediment‐particle transport in rivers
as a stochastic process. Experimental observations are therefore needed to validate these …

Lagrangian and Eulerian description of bed load transport

F Ballio, D Pokrajac, A Radice… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sediment particles transported as bed load undergo alternating periods of motion and rest,
particularly at weak flow intensity. Bed load transport can be investigated by either following …

Particle motion and diffusion at weak bed load: accounting for unsteadiness effects of entrainment and disentrainment

J Campagnol, A Radice, F Ballio… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A study of weak bed load over a plane bed is presented with a particular focus
on the motion and diffusion of individual particles that were tracked along their movements …

The elements and richness of particle diffusion during sediment transport at small timescales

DJ Furbish, SL Fathel, MW Schmeeckle… - Earth Surface …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The ideas of advection and diffusion of sediment particles are probabilistic constructs that
emerge when the Master equation, a precise, probabilistic description of particle …

Probability distributions of bed load particle velocities, accelerations, hop distances, and travel times informed by Jaynes's principle of maximum entropy

DJ Furbish, MW Schmeeckle… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the most likely forms of the probability distributions of bed load particle
velocities, accelerations, hop distances, and travel times, in a manner that formally appeals …

Experimental study of bed-load transport using particle motion tracking

J Shim, JG Duan - International Journal of Sediment Research, 2017 - Elsevier
A series of experiments were conducted in a flume to study bed-load transport. The motion
of bed-load particles was captured by a series of images taken by a high-speed camera. A …

[HTML][HTML] Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes–Part 4: Philosophy

DJ Furbish, TH Doane - Earth Surface Dynamics, 2021 - esurf.copernicus.org
Theoretical and experimental work (Furbish et al., 2021a, b, c) indicates that the travel
distances of rarefied particle motions on rough hillslope surfaces are described by a …

Parsing anomalous versus normal diffusive behavior of bedload sediment particles

S Fathel, D Furbish… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bedload sediment transport is the basic physical ingredient of river evolution. Formulae exist
for estimating transport rates, but the diffusive contribution to the sediment flux, and the …