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Maximum Level and Time to Peak of Dam-Break Waves on Mobile Horizontal Bed |
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| Authors: | Jo?o G A B Leal Rui M L Ferreira António H Cardoso |
| Affiliation: | 1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, Caparica 2829-516, Portugal (corresponding author). E-mail: jleal@fct.unl.pt 2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal. E-mail: ruif@civil.ist.utl.pt 3Full Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal. E-mail: ahc@civil.ist.utl.pt |
| Abstract: | This experimental study focuses the influence of bed material mobility and initial downstream water level on maximum water level and time to peak of dam-break waves. It covers horizontal bed conditions on fixed bed, sand bed, and pumice bed. Results include water surface level time evolution, maxima wave levels and time to peak. The influence of bed material mobility and downstream water level was identified and characterized, stressing the importance of using mathematical models with appropriate sediment transport formulations instead of purely hydrodynamic models to simulate dam-break waves on mobile bed channels. |
| Keywords: | Dams Water waves Bed materials Sediment transport |