Prediction of the behaviour of landslide dams using a geomorphological dimensionless index     

L. Ermini  N. Casagli 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2003,28(1):31-47

Landslide dams are a common phenomenon. They form when a landslide reaches the bottom of a river valley causing a blockage. The first effect of such a dam is the infilling of a lake that inundates the areas upstream, while the possibility of a sudden dam collapse, with a rapid release of the impounded waters, poses a higher flood risk to the downstream areas. The results of the main inventories carried out to date on landslide dams, have been examined to determine criteria for forecasting landslide dam evolution with particular emphasis on the assessment of dam stability. Not all landslides result in the blockage of a river channel. This only occurs with ones that can move a large amount of material with moderate or high‐velocities. In most cases, these landslides are triggered by rainfall events or high magnitude earthquakes. A relationship also exists between the volume of the displaced material and the landslide dam stability. Several authors have proposed that landslide dam behaviour can be forecast by defining various geomorphological indexes, that result from the combination of variables identifying both the dam and the dammed river channel. Further developments of this geomorphological approach are presented in this paper by the definition of a dimensionless blockage index. Starting with an analysis of 84 episodes selected worldwide, it proved to be a useful tool for making accurate predictions concerning the fate of a landslide dam. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Anchor ice formation in streams: a field study     

Morten Stickler  Knut T. Alfredsen 《水文研究》2009,23(16):2307-2315

In northern steep streams anchor ice is commonly observed during winter, and plays a key role when considering in‐stream conditions. The understanding, however, of the nature of anchor ice formation is less understood, in particular, under natural conditions. In the following, observations of anchor ice formation in three stream environments with different physical characteristics are presented. Results demonstrate that anchor ice not only form in riffle areas, but also in shallow and slow running stream sections. No linkage between spatial distribution of anchor ice and calculated dimensionless numbers (Froude and Reynolds number) was found. Furthermore, analyses on growth and density showed that anchor ice may be distinguished by two main types. (1) Type I: Lower density forming on top of substrata. (2) Type II: Higher density forming between the substrata filling interstitial spaces. Distribution of anchor ice Types I and II suggests a relation between intensity of turbulence expressed by the Reynolds number, growth pattern and density. As anchor ice has both physical and biological implications on in‐stream environments, findings from the present study may be of particular interest to cold region freshwater stream management. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A general solution for tide‐induced groundwater fluctuation in an estuarine‐coastal confined and unconfined aquifer system          下载免费PDF全文

Hsi‐Ting Fang  Yih‐Chi Tan  Mo‐Hsiung Chuang  Kai‐Yuan Ke  Po‐Chia Chen 《水文研究》2018,32(14):2239-2253

This paper presents an analytical solution to tide‐induced head fluctuations in a two‐dimensional estuarine‐coastal aquifer system that consists of an unconfined aquifer and a heterogeneous confined aquifer extending under a tidal river with a semipermeable layer between them. This study considers the joint effects of tidal‐river leakage, inland leakage, dimensionless transmissivity between the tidal‐river and inland confined aquifer, and transmissivity anisotropic ratios. The analytical solution for this model is obtained via the separation of variables method. Three existing solutions related to head fluctuation in one‐ or two‐dimensional leaky confined aquifers are considered as special cases in the present solution. This study shows that there is a threshold of tidal‐river confined aquifer length. When the tidal‐river length is greater than the threshold length, the inland head fluctuations remain sensitive to the leakage effect but become insensitive to the tidal‐river width and dimensionless transmissivity. Considering leakage and transmissivity anisotropy, this study also demonstrates that at a location farther from the river–inland boundary, head fluctuations increase with increasing leakage and transmissivity anisotropy; the maximum head fluctuation occurs when leakage and transmissivity anisotropy are both at their maximum values. The combined action of the 3 effects of loading, tidal‐river aquifer leakage, and inland aquifer leakage differs significantly according to various aquifer parameters. The analytical solution in this paper can be applied to demonstrate the behaviours of the head fluctuations of an estuarine‐coastal aquifer system, and the head fluctuations can be clearly described when the tidal and hydrogeological parameters are derived from field measurement data or hypothetical cases.  相似文献   

控导浅层急流的潜没式三角翼体特性研究          下载免费PDF全文

孙东坡  罗秋实  严军  王二平  宋永军 《水科学进展》2007,18(4):509-515

宽浅陡槽水流试验研究表明,浅层急流的阻力大、稳定性差。当陡槽(B/h<40,h_k>1.04 m)末端水流呈"马鞍型"动量横向分布时,水流具有较强的稳定性;而当陡槽(B/h>40,hk<1.04 m)末端水流呈"椭圆型"动量横向分布时,就缺乏抗干扰能力,导致下游形成平面涡旋并挤压水跃。基于"介入式"方法,提出了采用潜没式三角翼体来调控浅层急流。利用三角翼对两翼底层水流产生的扰动产生两翼优势流,从而使水体能够抑制边界微小扰动的"多米诺骨牌"累加递增效应,提高了水流整体稳定性,改善了下游水流的衔接消能,效果良好。在此基础上,对三角翼体调控水流动量分布的机理进行了分析,探讨了三角翼体型设计原则及量纲一体型因子k的确定方法。  相似文献   

A review of classical dimensionless numbers for the Yusa problem based on discriminated non‐dimensionalization of the governing equations          下载免费PDF全文

M. Cánovas  I. Alhama  E. Trigueros  F. Alhama 《水文研究》2016,30(22):4101-4112

When the governing equations of a problem are known, the non‐dimensionalization of these equations (applied in their classical form) is a useful and widely used method that can be used to identify the dimensionless groups that rule the solution. However, neither this technique nor dimensional analysis necessarily provides the most precise solution in terms of the sought numbers. The use of discrimination, a qualitative rather than quantitative extension of the non‐dimensionalization method, has demonstrated notable advantages over the classical method because it invariably provides a more precise set of dimensionless groups. The basis for the correct application of discrimination depends on a deep understanding of the phenomena involved in the problem, particularly in complex (coupled) problems. In this paper, discriminated non‐dimensionalization is applied to investigate a mixed convection problem in porous media, the Yusa problem. The derived discriminate groups are compared with those already known in the literature and deduced by classical methods. A number of scenarios are numerically solved to check the reliability of the discriminated groups in contrast with classical groups. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

双峰型非均匀沙推移运动特性及输移规律          下载免费PDF全文

孙东坡  刘明潇  王鹏涛  李国栋  赵亚飞  董明家 《水科学进展》2015,26(5):660-667

采用图像识别与推移质动态监测技术,开展基于双峰型非均匀推移质的系列水槽试验.通过引入反映床面粗糙度、粘性底层特性与颗粒非均匀度η(粗细比)的综合水流强度函数Ψ_b、特征弗劳德数Fr_b,系统研究了不同水流强度与床沙组成条件下的推移质输移特性以及颗粒非均匀度对输沙率的影响.通过对关键因子的辨识与量纲分析,提出了双峰型非均匀推移质输移模式,建立了基于近壁特征因子的水流强度Ψ_b与非均匀推移质输移强度Φ'的函数关系.对双峰型底沙输移机理的分析表明,非均匀沙的组成特征使得η成为影响Φ'的重要参量;正是细粒对粗粒的解怙作用对粗沙运动产生重要影响,使推移质输移率与颗粒非均匀度间呈现驼峰关系,峰值对应的粗细比η_c约为3∶7.  相似文献   

A cell-based algorithm for evaluating directional distances in GIS     

S. Yang  J. H. Yong  J. G. Sun  H. J. Gu  J. C. Paul 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(4):577-590

Directional distance is commonly used in geographical information systems as a measure of openness. In previous works, the sweep line method and the interval tree method have been employed to evaluate the directional distances on vector maps. Both methods require rotating original maps and study points in every direction of interest. In this article, we propose a cell-based algorithm that pre-processes a map only once; that is, it subdivides the map into a group of uniform-sized cells and records each borderline of the map into the cells traversed by its corresponding line segment. Based on the pre-processing result, the neighbouring borderlines of a study point can be directly obtained through the neighbouring cells of the point, and the borderlines in a definite direction can be simply acquired through the cells traversed by the half line as well. As a result, the processing step does not need to enumerate all the borderlines of the map when determining whether a point is on a borderline or finding the nearest intersection between a half line and the borderlines. Furthermore, we implement the algorithm for determining fetch length in coastal environment. Once the pre-processing is done, the algorithm can work in a complex archipelago environment such as to calculate the fetch lengths in multiple directions, to determine the inclusion property of a point, and to deal with the singularity of a study point on a borderline.  相似文献   

广义反射-透射系数算法的无量纲化   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

袁腊梅  凡友华  孙书荣 《地震学报》2009,31(4)

水平层状介质中瑞利波频散曲线的计算一直是受关注的问题.陈晓非提出的广义反射-透射系数方法虽然具备很好的精确性和稳定性,但是算法中起决定作用的矩阵E存在有量纲元素,并且不同元素之间的数量级差异很大.本文作者通过把广义反射-透射系数算法无量纲化,得到了简洁的瑞利波频散函数的公式体系.分别计算了改进后算法和原算法中矩阵E的最大模元素与最小模元素的比值ε,发现前者的矩阵E中最大模元素与最小模元素最多只相差1个数量级,而后者的矩阵E中最大模元素与最小模元素之间最大达11个数量级的差异,尽管后者可以通过选取变量的单位减小ε的值,但新算法精度更高,从而完善了利用广义反射-透射系数方法求解瑞利波频散曲线问题的理论和算法.  相似文献   

The effects of surface moisture on aeolian sediment transport threshold and mass flux on a beach   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Robin G. D. Davidson‐Arnott  Yanqi Yang  Jeff Ollerhead  Patrick A. Hesp  Ian J. Walker 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2008,33(1):55-74

This paper presents results from a study designed to explore the effects of beach surface moisture and fetch effects on the threshold of movement, intensity of sand transport by wind and mass flux. The experiment was carried out over a period of five weeks at Greenwich Dunes, Prince Edward Island, Canada in May and June 2002. Moisture content was measured with a Delta‐T moisture probe over a 50 m by 25 m grid established on the beach. Measurements of wind speed and direction were made with arrays of cup anemometers and a two‐dimensional sonic anemometer. Transport intensity was measured at a height of 2–4 cm above the bed using omnidirectional saltation probes which count the impact of saltating grains on a piezoelectric crystal. Anemometers and saltation probes were sampled at 1 Hz. Sand transport was measured with vertical integrating sand traps over periods of 10–20 minutes. Results show that where there is a considerable supply of dry sand the saltation system responds very rapidly (1–2 s) to fluctuations in wind speed, i.e. to wind gusts. Where sand supply from the surface is limited by moisture, mean transport rates are much lower and this reflects in both a reduction in the instantaneous transport rate and in a transport system that becomes increasingly intermittent. Threshold wind speed is significantly correlated with an increase in surface moisture content near the upwind end of the beach fetch, but the relationship is not significant at the downwind end where sediment transport is initiated primarily by saltation impact from upwind. Mass flux increases with increasing fetch length and the relationship is described best by a power function. Further work is necessary to develop a theoretical function to predict the increase in transport with fetch distance as well as the critical fetch distance. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A Whitecap Coverage Model Based on the Surface Slope For Criterion of Wave Breaking   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1  

Xu Delun  Yu Dingyong  Lu Hongmin Professor  Physical Oceanography Laboratory  Ocean University of Qindao  Qingdao Associate Professor  Engineering School  Ocean University of Qindao  Qingdao Senior Engineer  Physical Oceanography Laboratory  Ocean University of Qingdao  Qingdao 《中国海洋工程》1998,(1)

Using the limit surface slope as a criterion of wave breaking,a simple model for estimatingthe spatial fraction of breaking surface of sea at an instant,which is regarded as the whitecap coverge inthis paper,is analytically derived from the probability density of surface slope based on Gaussianstatistics.The resulting fraction is found depending on the fourth moment of wave spectum,m_4,as well asthe critical threshold of surface slope.By expressing the fourth moment in terms of the Neumannspectrum,a formula linking the fraction and wind speed for fully developed sea states is obtianed.Anotherformula relating the fraction to both wind speed and fetch(or duration)is achieved by expressing m_4 interms of the Krylov spectrum and applying the empirical relationships used in the SMB ocean wave pre-dicting technique.A comparison between these results and the field data of whitecap coverage collected byMonahan and O＇Muircheartuigh shows an encouraging agreement.  相似文献