Statistics of bedload transport over steep slopes: Separation of time scales and collective motion

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العنوان: Statistics of bedload transport over steep slopes: Separation of time scales and collective motion
المؤلفون: Heyman, J., Mettra, F., Ma, H. B., Ancey, C.
المصدر: Geophysical Research Letters 40(1), 128-133, 2013
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
Statistics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Geophysics, Statistics - Applications
الوصف: Steep slope streams show large fluctuations of sediment discharge across several time scales. These fluctuations may be inherent to the internal dynamics of the sediment transport process. A probabilistic framework thus seems appropriate to analyze such a process. In this letter, we present an experimental study of bedload transport over a steep slope flume for small to moderate Shields numbers. The sampling technique allows the acquisition of high-resolution time series of the solid discharge. The resolved time scales range from $10^{-2}$s up to $10^{5}$s. We show that two distinct time scales can be observed in the probability density function for the waiting time between moving particles. We make the point that the separation of time scales is related to collective dynamics. Proper statistics of a Markov process including collective entrainment are derived. The separation of time scales is recovered theoretically for low entrainment rates.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054280
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04134
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1611.04134
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv