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Numerical experiments on breaking waves on contrasting beaches using a two-phase flow approach

A mechanistic understanding of beach environments needs to account for interactions of oceanic forcing and beach materials, in particular the role of waves on the evolution of the beach profile. A fully coupled two-phase flow model was used to simulate nea ...

Elsevier2012

Cross-shore transport pathways between coastal aquifers and coastal seas: Archetype of a nearshore variable-density contaminant plume

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Roham Bakhtyar, Clare Robinson

On permeable beaches, tides and waves lead to an upper saline plume underneath the beach face in addition to the saltwater wedge. The transport and fate of land-derived chemicals depend on process dynamics at the land-sea interface, which can be examined u ...

2012

Detection of Local Wall Stiffness Drop in Steel-Lined Pressure Tunnels and Shafts of Hydroelectric Power Plants Using Steep Pressure Wave Excitation and Wavelet Decomposition

Anton Schleiss, Fadi Hachem

A new monitoring approach for detecting, locating, and quantifying structurally weak reaches of steel-lined pressure tunnels and shafts is presented. These reaches arise from local deterioration of the backfill concrete and the rock mass surrounding the li ...

2012

3D modelling of nearshore coastal morphodynamics

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar

Coastal 3D nearshore processes were considered with an emphasis on the effects of oceanic forcing and beach characteristics on sediment transport in both cross- and alongshore directions, as well as on foreshore bathymetry changes. In our numerical experim ...

2012

Characterization of Annular Two-Phase Down Flow Using Non Intrusive Optical Techniques for Flow Patterns, Entrainment, Film Thickness and Velocity Profile

Marco Milan

In this study, adiabatic vertical cocurrent downward air-water flow in an 8.8 mm internal diameter channel was investigated using non intrusive optical techniques. Flow pattern tests were performed to assess the influence of the inlet device, of the test s ...

EPFL2012

Systolic Hypertension Mechanisms: Effect of Global and Local Proximal Aorta Stiffening on Pulse Pressure

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Philippe Reymond, Nico Westerhof

Decrease in arterial compliance leads to an increased pulse pressure, as explained by the Windkessel effect. Pressure waveform is the sum of a forward running and a backward running or reflected pressure wave. When the arterial system stiffens, as a result ...

Springer US2012

Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flow for Nearshore Hydrodynamics under Wave-Current Interactions

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar, Amir Mehdi Razmi

Surf and swash zone hydrodynamics are complex, being composed of a highly energetic water-air mixture under periodically unsteady motion. Wave-current interactions have a major effect on the results of hydrodynamic simulations, and consequently on predicti ...

Coastal Education and Research Foundation2011

Numerical experiments of breaking waves on dissipative and intermediate beaches using a two-phase flow method

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar

A fully coupled two-phase flow model was developed to simulate nearshore fluid-sediment turbulent flow. It includes the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations and turbu¬lent stress closures for each phase, and accounts for inter-granular stresses. It wa ...

2011

Wave-induced watertable fluctuations, sediment transport and beach profile change: Modeling and comparison with large-scale laboratory experiments

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Roham Bakhtyar

Coastal groundwater systems can have a considerable impact on sediment transport and foreshore evolution in the surf and swash zones. Process-based modeling of wave motion on a permeable beach taking into account wave-aquifer interactions was conducted to ...

Elsevier2011

Evolution of superficial lake water temperature profile under diurnal radiative forcing

Ulrich Lemmin, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Marc Parlange, Ivan Lunati, Nikki Vercauteren

In lentic water bodies, such as lakes, the water temperature near the surface typically increases during the day, and decreases during the night as a consequence of the diurnal radiative forcing (solar and infrared radiation). These temperature variations ...

American Geophysical Union2011

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