Experimental and modelling study of flow characteristics on large-scale roughness bed Online publication date: Tue, 08-Oct-2019
by Jianmei Zhang; Quan Che; Zhengguo Han; Feng Zhu
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT), Vol. 61, No. 3, 2019
Abstract: Large-scale roughness bed flow is a special flow condition which is commonly seen in mountainous rivers. In this paper, gradient flume experiment is carried out with plum-blossom distributed cubic obstruction blocks with 50 mm edge, and large-scale roughness bed flow characteristics including free surface morphology, flow velocity distribution, turbulence propagation and friction head loss coefficient are studied by high-precision measuring and statistical analysis. In addition, CFD based numerical model is established in this paper to verify the experimental results and provide a prediction method to expand the experiment. After that, a modified empirical formula of friction head loss coefficient considering more important influence factors is proposed in this paper based on the experimental results and the numerical simulation results, which provide a practical calculation method of friction head loss coefficient for engineering reference.
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