Open AccessEXPERIMENTS ON BED FORM GENERATION BY WAVE ACTION
Author(s) -
G.R. Mogridge,
J. William Kamphuis
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v13.57
Subject(s) - flume , wave flume , oscillation (cell signaling) , wave height , range (aeronautics) , geotechnical engineering , specific gravity , geology , mechanics , materials science , physics , flow (mathematics) , optics , mineralogy , composite material , chemistry , wave propagation , biochemistry , oceanography , breaking wave
Experiments to determine the length, height and steepness of bed forms generated by wave action have been conducted in a laboratory wave flume and an oscillating water tunnel. The effects of a wide range of oscillatory flows were examined on polystyrene (specific gravity 1.05, diameter 1.54 mms), bakelite (specific gravity 1.60, diameter 0.52 mms), bakelite (specific gravity 1.51, diameter 0.67 mms) and sand (specific gravity 2.68, diameter 0.36 mms). From the results of the experiments design curves were plotted which make it possible to predict the length and height of bed form that will develop on any specified sediment bed for given conditions of fluid oscillation.