School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai200240, China
Abstract:
A new patent registered device-suspended flexible curtain (SFC) for sedimentation enhancement is proposed in this paper, which consists of two parts: a light-weight curtain with sediment-passing windows and a heavy pillar for the device stability. The mechanism of trapping nearbed sediment by the SFC is such that a primary and a secondary circulations with horizontal hubs would be formed at the leeside when it is placed on beds in running flow; the velocities within the sediment-passing windows are locally ...