High‐resolution flow characterization close to the sediment‐water interface in a run of the river reservoir

Brand, Andreas; Noß, Christian

doi:10.1002/2016wr020203

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“…Such rotations were small, typically <4° from horizontal. Brand and Noss () suggested that rotating the horizontal velocities to the mean current direction reduces bias induced by small but unavoidable misalignments in instrument orientation during deployment.…”

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Turbulence Within Natural Mangrove Pneumatophore Canopies

et al. 2019

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High‐resolution velocity measurements were collected within and above two dense canopies of mangrove pneumatophore roots in a wave‐exposed mangrove forest. In both canopies, root density decreased steadily with height above bed owing to the variability in root heights and the tapered shape of the roots. Within the canopies, we consider turbulence within three zones: near the bed above the wave boundary layer, around the mean canopy height, and above the canopy. The near‐bed turbulence was particularly intense (up to 6.5 × 10−4 W/kg), likely owing to oscillatory wave‐driven currents flowing past dense vegetation. Near the bed and around the mean canopy height, peaks in horizontal velocity power spectra at frequencies corresponding to Strouhal numbers of ~0.2 may indicate Von Kármán wake shedding in the lee of the pneumatophores. Furthermore, a recirculation zone was observed immediately behind a cluster of pneumatophores at intermediate heights. These coherent flow structures were associated with zones of enhanced Reynolds stresses (up to 5.3 × 10−3 m2/s2) and eddy viscosities (up to 1.9 × 10−3 m2/s). Large near‐bed stresses were associated with near‐bed drag coefficients that are up to an order of magnitude larger than those expected in the absence of vegetation. Observed eddy viscosities are consistent with theoretical expectations, derived from scaling arguments using a standard mixing‐length model. These results suggest that pneumatophore roots can contribute greatly to turbulent mixing (e.g., eddy viscosities were on average O(10−4–10−3 m2/s) and therefore may enhance the sediment transport occurring in mangrove forest fringes.

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