Nondimensional sediment transport capacity of sand soils and its response to parameter in the Loess Plateau of China

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 823-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pu Li ◽  
Kuandi Zhang ◽  
Jingwen Wang ◽  
He Meng
Geoderma ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 337 ◽  
pp. 384-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongli Mu ◽  
Xianju Yu ◽  
Suhua Fu ◽  
Bofu Yu ◽  
Yingna Liu ◽  
...  

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honglei Tang ◽  
Qihua Ran ◽  
Jihui Gao

Check dams are among of the most widespread and effective engineering structures for conserving water and soil in the Loess Plateau since the 1950s, and have significantly modified the local hydrologic responses and landforms. A representative small catchment was chosen as an example to study the influences of check dams. A physics-based distributed model, the Integrated Hydrology Model (InHM), was employed to simulate the impacts of check dam systems considering four scenarios (pre-dam, single-dam, early dam-system, current dam-system). The results showed that check dams significantly alter the water redistribution in the catchment and influence the groundwater table in different periods. It was also shown that gully erosion can be alleviated indirectly due to the formation of the expanding sedimentary areas. The simulated residual deposition heights (Δh) matched reasonably well with the observed values, demonstrating that physics-based simulation can help to better understand the hydrologic impacts as well as predicting changes in sediment transport caused by check dams in the Loess Plateau.


2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 591-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ali ◽  
G. Sterk ◽  
M. Seeger ◽  
M. Boersema ◽  
P. Peters

Abstract. Sediment transport is an important component of the soil erosion process, which depends on several hydraulic parameters like unit discharge, mean flow velocity, and slope gradient. In most of the previous studies, the impact of these hydraulic parameters on transport capacity was studied for non-erodible bed conditions. Hence, this study aimed to examine the influence of unit discharge, mean flow velocity and slope gradient on sediment transport capacity for erodible beds and also to investigate the relationship between transport capacity and composite force predictors, i.e. shear stress, stream power, unit stream power and effective stream power. In order to accomplish the objectives, experiments were carried out in a 3.0 m long and 0.5 m wide flume using four well sorted sands (0.230, 0.536, 0.719, 1.022 mm). Unit discharges ranging from 0.07 to 2.07 × 10−3 m2 s−1 were simulated inside the flume at four slopes (5.2, 8.7, 13.2 and 17.6%) to analyze their impact on sediment transport rate. The sediment transport rate measured at the bottom end of the flume by taking water and sediment samples was considered equal to sediment transport capacity, because the selected flume length of 3.0 m was found sufficient to reach the transport capacity. The experimental result reveals that the slope gradient has a stronger impact on transport capacity than unit discharge and mean flow velocity due to the fact that the tangential component of gravity force increases with slope gradient. Our results show that unit stream power is an optimal composite force predictor for estimating transport capacity. Stream power and effective stream power can also be successfully related to the transport capacity, however the relations are strongly dependent on grain size. Shear stress showed poor performance, because part of shear stress is dissipated by bed irregularities, bed form evolution and sediment detachment. An empirical transport capacity equation was derived, which illustrates that transport capacity can be predicted from median grain size, total discharge and slope gradient.


1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1545-1550 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Finkner ◽  
M. A. Hearing ◽  
G. R. Foster ◽  
J. E. Gilley

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai Xiao ◽  
Gang Liu ◽  
Puling Liu ◽  
Fenli Zheng ◽  
Jiaqiong Zhang ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 591 ◽  
pp. 125582
Author(s):  
Shuyuan Wang ◽  
Dennis C. Flanagan ◽  
Bernard A. Engel ◽  
Na Zhou

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 2289-2305
Author(s):  
Luyou Zhao ◽  
Kuandi Zhang ◽  
Shufang Wu ◽  
Deqian Feng ◽  
Haixin Shang ◽  
...  

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