Abstract
This paper shows an advanced application of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method to the numerical modeling of noncohesive sediment flushing aiming at the setup of a reliable engineering tool for the prediction of the coupled water-sediment dynamics at the bottom of an artificial reservoir. Both liquid and granular materials are modeled as weakly compressible viscous fluids, whose motion results from the numerical solution of the continuity and momentum equations discretized according to standard SPH formulation. The effect of two alternative erosion criteria on the description of the failure mechanism of bottom sediments is analyzed. These criteria are based, respectively, on Mohr-Coulomb yielding criterion and Shields theory. A sensitivity analysis is performed in order to assess, for both criteria, the influence of the model parameters on the simulation of the erosion process; the method is eventually validated by comparing numerical results with the experimental data obtained in a two-dimen...
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