A study on mud particle velocities and mass transport in wave-current-mud interaction

A Study of Wave Dissipation Rate and Particles Velocity in Muddy Beds

“…where A-D are constant coefficients obtained from the boundary conditions. Substituting Equations (10), (11) into the continuity equation (Equation 5), the following expressions for the horizontal velocities were obtained…”

“…Since the fluid mud is assumed as a thin layer, the only difference between TL and CM models is that in the TL model, the third and fourth terms (viscous effects) at the right hand sides of Equations (10), (11) are effective over the entire depth of fluid mud.…”

“…The boundary conditions [11] which are the same as those of the MP model to whom the current effects were added, are written as…”

“…Thereafter, the effects of current on the wave-mud interaction, e.g., wave attenuation and particles velocity, is addressed. The results of the literature models together with the current model are compared with the experimental results of Soltanpour et al [11]. The performance of the models in different cases are compared and discussed.…”

“…Since then, few more laboratory experiments were carried to measure the dissipation rates and mass transport (e.g., [2,9,10]). Recently, Hsu et al [10], and Soltanpour et al [11] applied electromagnetic current meters in the mud layer and investigated the mud particles velocity and mass transport using commercial kaolinite as the mud bed. They successfully measured the time-dependent instantaneous velocity inside the mud layer, however, Hsu et al [10] did not provide information on the resultant mud mass transport velocity.…”