A review on hydrodynamics of horseshoe vortex at a vertical cylinder mounted on a flat bed and its implication to scour at a cylinder

AH Gazi, MS Afzal - Acta Geophysica, 2020 - Springer
A comprehensive review of the local scour due to vortical flow around a cylindrical bridge
pier under steady current is presented in this paper. The mechanism of the formation of …

Characterization of horseshoe vortex in a developing scour hole at a cylindrical bridge pier

D Guan, YM Chiew, M Wei, SC Hsieh - International journal of sediment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Since local scour at bridge piers in rivers and estuaries is a major cause of bridge failure,
estimation of the maximum local scour depth is of great importance to hydraulic and coastal …

Experimental study on scour at a sharp-nose bridge pier with debris blockage

M Ebrahimi, P Kripakaran, DM Prodanović… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
Previous experimental research on the effects of debris on pier scour has focused primarily
on circular and rectangular piers with debris present just under flow free surface. Debris …

Impact assessment of pier shape and modifications on scouring around bridge pier

R Farooq, AR Ghumman - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Previous experimental research on utilizing pier modifications as countermeasures against
local scour has focused primarily on circular pier. It is of utmost importance to further …

Physical scale modelling of scour around bridge piers

O Link, S Henriquez, B Ettmer - Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The feasibility of physical modelling techniques for quantification of prototype bridge pier
scour in reduced scale models is investigated through 17 ad hoc designed experiments …

Numerical study of the flow past two wall-mounted finite-length square cylinders in tandem arrangement

M Zhao, AA Mamoon, H Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Flow past two wall-mounted square cylinders in a tandem arrangement are simulated
through direct numerical simulation to investigate the effects of the gap between the two …

Quantifying the spatiotemporal evolution of the turbulent horseshoe vortex in front of a vertical cylinder

WG Qi, J Liu, FP Gao, B Li, QG Chen - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The spatiotemporal evolution of the turbulent horseshoe vortex (THV) in front of a cylinder
vertically mounted on a hydraulically smooth flat-bed was physically modeled in a large …

Interaction between dual spherical particles during settling in fluid

J Liu, P Zhang, Y Xiao, Z Wang, S Yuan, H Tang - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Settling of solid particles in the fluid is one of the most basic forms of sediment transport.
However, due to the complex particle–particle and particle–fluid interactions, the mechanism …

Influence of turbulent horseshoe vortex and associated bed shear stress on sediment transport in front of a cylinder

J Li, M Qi, DR Fuhrman, Q Chen - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2018 - Elsevier
This study concerns the flow and associated sediment transport in front of a cylinder in
steady currents. The study comprises (i) flow characteristics induced by the turbulent …

Turbulent boundary layer perturbation by two wall-mounted cylindrical roughness elements arranged in tandem: Effects of spacing and height ratio

AM Hamed, AM Peterlein, LV Randle - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The perturbation of a turbulent boundary layer by two cylindrical roughness elements in
close proximity was experimentally investigated in a water channel using planar particle …