Sand Ripples and Bedforms

Oral

1165 - Form Drag And Equivalent Sand-Grain Roughness For Wave-Generated Sand Ripples

Presenting Author(s)

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  Jing Yuan, PHD

  Assistant Prof
  National University of Singapore

Additional Author #1(s)

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  Dongxu Wang, PhD

  PhD Student
  National University Of Singapore

Form drag for oscillatory flows over wave-generated sand ripples is important for modeling coastal hydrodynamics and sediment transport processes. A large set of full-scale experiments are conducted in an oscillatory water tunnel, in which form drag is directly measured through a novel pressure-based technique. The measurements suggest that form drag is almost in phase with free-stream oscillatory flow. The maximum form drag is converted to a wave friction factor, and the obtained values are generally within 0.1-0.2. Using measurements and a wave boundary layer model, equivalent sand-grain roughness for sand ripples are calibrated.