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A numerical study of the wave-induced solute transport above a rippled bed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

K. T. Shum
K. T. Shum
Affiliation:
Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada G5H 3Z4 Present address: Contra Costa Water District, 1331 Concord Avenue, PO Box H20, Concord, CA 94524, USA.
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Abstract

The role of wave-induced separated flow in solute transport above a rippled bed is studied from numerical solutions to the two-dimensional Navier–Strokes equations and the advection-diffusion equation. A horizontal ambient flow that varies sinusoidally in time is imposed far above the bed, and a constant concentration difference between the upper and lower boundaries of computation is assumed. The computed flow field is the sum of an oscillatory rectilinear flow and a vortical flow which is periodic both in time and in the horizontal. Poincaré sections of this flow suggest chaotic mixing. Vertical lines of fluid particles above the crest and above the trough deform into whorls and tendrils, respectively, in just one wave period. Horizontal lines near the bottom deform into Smale horseshoe patterns. The combination of high shear and vortex-induced normal velocity close to the sediment surface results in large net displacements of fluid particles in a period. The resulting advective transport normal to the bed can be higher than molecular diffusion from well within the viscous boundary layer up to a few ripple heights above the bed. When this flow field is applied to the transport equation of a passive scalar, two distinct features – regular temporal oscillations in concentration and a linear time-averaged vertical concentration profile – are found immediately above the bed. These features have also been observed previously in field measurements on oxygen concentration. Advective transport is shown to be dominant even in the region where the time-averaged concentration profile is linear, a region where vertical solute transport has often been estimated using diffusion-type models in many field studies.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 299 , 25 September 1995 , pp. 267 - 288
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© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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