Malihesadat Jafari; Seyed Ali Ayyoubzadeh; Mahdi Esmaeilivaraki; Mohammad Rostami
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Introduction: Bridges are certainly one of the most important structures but costly service elements in a transport system. The bridges are very required to access the damaged areas in emergency situations such as floods and earthquakes. Scour around the foundations of bridge piers exposed to the flowing ...
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Introduction: Bridges are certainly one of the most important structures but costly service elements in a transport system. The bridges are very required to access the damaged areas in emergency situations such as floods and earthquakes. Scour around the foundations of bridge piers exposed to the flowing water than can destroy the bridge itself is a subject of major concern. Flow pattern is known as responsible for all changes in stream bed. Any obstacle in the channel can form new flow patterns causing additional shear stress exerted on the bed than the equilibrium condition of the absence of the obstacle. Appropriate shaping of flow pattern and proper selecting of pier geometry and the location of bridge piers can be one of the proper methods in reduction of scour amount which is the main subject of the present study.
Materials and Methods: Inclined bridge group pier is a type of bridges with modern geometry based on development in building technology of structures. Many of these bridges have been built all around the world and the 8th bridge built crossing the Karun River in Ahvaz is a sample of the Iranian ones considered in this research. Hydrodynamic behavior of flow is investigated around the inclined bridge group pier settled on foundation using the FLOW-3D numerical model. Inclined bridge group pier investigated in this study, includes two rectangular piers which are 2.5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide and set in an angle of 28 degree on rectangular foundation which is 16 cm long and 10 cm wide and installed in three different foundation levels namely at, above and below the bed levels. The physical model of prototype pier considered in this study was constructed to the scale of 1:190 of the Ahvaz 8th bridge. In order to verify the accuracy of the numerical model, velocity data obtained from image processing technique were used.
Results and Discussion: Due to non- linearity and interactions between various phenomena involved, flow pattern around the piers group is entirely different than that for a single pier and consequently the outcomes of the flow pattern around single pier cannot be generalized to the pier group. At all levels of foundation setting, longitudinal component of flow velocity increases surrounding the first pier. The increase in the area and its extension towards downstream is caused by the constriction the flow due to the pier and area rotating of the wake vortex in downstream. When the pier foundation is set at the stream bed, the bed rotating flows extend to a distance between the two piers from near the bed up to the middle of flow depth while in upstream of the second pier and near water surface, the stream lines become parallel to the bed. The comparison of the results of the changes in bed shear stress in the situations of foundation setting in different levels showed that the maximum shear stress occurred when the foundation level is at the bed level and the maximum shear stress exerted on the bed decreases by factors of 17% and 53% in the cases of foundation level to be below and above bed levels, respectively. In addition, the results showed that, the amount of vortex flows increased in upstream piers group and near bed in the case of setting the foundation above the bed. This is because of the fact that the volume of piers group acted as obstacle against flow was more than other level settings. Furthermore, based on the obtained results, in the case of foundation level is set at the bed, the quantity and development zone of vortex flow are much higher than those observed when the setting foundation is below the bed level. This can be attributed to the higher effect of the second pier on the flow pattern being between the first and the second piers. Stream lines turn downward in the range between piers group, and after the collision to bed turn upward to water surface and cause to form rotating flow and hence high turbulence intensity in the area. In the near water surface and the center of group piers, stream lines were observed to be parallel to the bed and caused low turbulence intensity in this area.
Conclusions: The results showed that the levels of setting foundation have a significant effect on hydrodynamic characteristics and flow pattern around the piers. By increasing the dimensionless height of the setting foundation from -1 to 0.5 vortices formed in the downstream piers group is strengthen more and the results from the numerical model are consistent with the results of experimental scour around piers group in all three levels of setting foundations. When the foundation setting is at the bed level, the maximum bed shear stress is observed. The maximum bed shear stress is decreased by factors of 17 and 53 percent when the foundation to be set below and above bed levels, respectively.
mahdi esmaeli varaki
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After construction of bridge pier in a river, a 3D complex flow pattern forms around piers and erosion of bed material occurs and if foundation depth or piles depth was not sufficient, the bridge will be collapsed. One of devices to reduction of scour around bridge piers is an installation of sill beside ...
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After construction of bridge pier in a river, a 3D complex flow pattern forms around piers and erosion of bed material occurs and if foundation depth or piles depth was not sufficient, the bridge will be collapsed. One of devices to reduction of scour around bridge piers is an installation of sill beside of piers. In this research, effect of sill on reduction of scour around the inclined bridges piers group under various hydraulic condition and top level of installation of foundation was investigated experimentally. The model of bridge pier was 1/190 scaled of 8th bridges of Ahvaz, Iran, which had inclined rectangular of 2.5 cm length and 3.5 cm width and was placed on the foundation of 10 cm width and 16 cm of length with inclination of 28 degree. Experiments was conducted for different location of sill (front, middle and downstream) of foundation which installed at relative level, height of top of foundation to width of it, -1, -0.5, 0 and 1. Comparison of results showed that installation of sill in front of foundation had the best performance to decrease of scour depth. Furthermore, the reduction of scour depth as the top level of foundation was placed at same level of bed, was considerable.
F. Zadjanali Choubari; M. Navabian; M. Vazifehdust; M. Esmaeili Varaki
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Phosphorus is one of the main pollutants of agricultural surface drainage; that over standard doze of it cause eutrophication in surface water resource. This study investigates evaluation the ability of Semnan's zeolite, that modified by hexadecyltrimethylammonium, to removal phosphorus under flow conditions ...
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Phosphorus is one of the main pollutants of agricultural surface drainage; that over standard doze of it cause eutrophication in surface water resource. This study investigates evaluation the ability of Semnan's zeolite, that modified by hexadecyltrimethylammonium, to removal phosphorus under flow conditions in agricultural drainage. In this regard, after modifying natural zeolite, at first was absorption kinetics, adsorption isotherms, affecting of pH and temperature experiments on phosphorus removal conducted by modified zeolite in laboratory scale. The experiments were done in 3-5 mm size of zeolite for investigating effect of zeolite size on phosphorus removal. In order to assess the flow conditions on phosphorus removal physical model of agricultural drainage and the modified zeolite filter ponds were constructed in length of 2, 3 and 5 cm. The both discharge 0.05 and 0.1 lit/s were applied in drainage and changes of phosphorus concentrations were measured at various times after passing through the filter ponds. The sorption kinetic experiments showed maximum phosphorus removal by modified zeolite occurred in the first 2 hours. Moreover, percent phosphorus removal with increasing the pH from 3 to 8 decreased and increased from 8 to 12. Also percent removal with increasing temperature in the range of 17 to 30 °C decreased. The results showed Langmuir isotherm had good agreement for explan phosphorus removal by modified zeolite. The results of physical model showed that higher percent phosphorus removal occurred in higher discharge and lower length of filter pond due to more contact drain water with the modified zeolite.
M. Esmaeili Varak; M. Safarrazavi Zadeh
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Weirs are common structure to regulate water surface and flow control in water conveyance channel and hydraulic structure. One of effective and economical method to increase the efficiency of weirs is utilization of labyrinth weirs which length of weirs increase with modification of plan form and therefore ...
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Weirs are common structure to regulate water surface and flow control in water conveyance channel and hydraulic structure. One of effective and economical method to increase the efficiency of weirs is utilization of labyrinth weirs which length of weirs increase with modification of plan form and therefore flow discharge will be increase. In this research, the discharge coefficient and the unit length discharge of labyrinth weir with liner-semi circular and semi circular with radius of 11, 16 and 20 cm and cycle of 2 to 6 was experimentally investigated. Comparison of results showed that in all labyrinth flow discharge coefficient had increasing trend with increase of relative effective head ( ) then decrease for due to collision of nape and with increasing , weir coefficient tend to broad crest weir because of local submergence. Comparison of results showed that the labyrinth weirs with circular plan have a better performance in comparison with liner-circular plans.
F. Sahebi Vayghan; Davoud Farsadi; M. Esmaeili Varaki; A. Abbaspour; Ali hosseinzadeh
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Stilling basins are one of the most common structures for energy dissipation of flow with high velocity and among different sections and types of these basins, diverging basins have better performance and lower constructional costs. In this research, the feasibility of 3D numerical simulation of diverging ...
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Stilling basins are one of the most common structures for energy dissipation of flow with high velocity and among different sections and types of these basins, diverging basins have better performance and lower constructional costs. In this research, the feasibility of 3D numerical simulation of diverging hydraulic jump in rectangular basins was investigated using standard and RNG turbulence models using Fluent software. The free surface was determined using the VOF method. The outputs of numerical model in comparison with the results of physical model of hydraulic jump in diverging rectangular basins with diverging angels of and showed that the standard turbulence model evaluated the free surface of water, jump length and maximum velocity in defined sections better than RNG turbulence model. this model show that the efficiency of diverging basins in decreasing length of jump is more better than the classic basins. So this model is recommended for simulating hydraulic jump in diverging sections. Results showed that the mean relative error of water surface obtained from numerical model and measured values is about 7 percent. Modeled Velocity profiles were in good agreement with measured data. Also the numerical model showed the vortices that were accrued because of diverging walls as well as experiment investigations. These vortices accrued near the right side of diverging wall in high Froude numbers and in lower values of Froude numbers, accrued in both two sides of walls. The intensity of vortices was increased by increasing the angle of diverging walls.