Author(s): Yoshiharu Takemura; Shoji Fukuoka
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Keywords: Flood flows; River mouth; Monobe River; Q3D-FEBS; Non-equilibrium sediment transport
Abstract: The bar at the Monobe River mouth composed of gravel particles and cobbles narrows the width at the outlet to the sea. The second-largest flood occurred in July 2018 greatly enlarged the opening width of the river mouth and formed a spit-like depositional landforms at the coastal area. The sediment transport of gravel particles and cobbles are essentially non-equilibrium phenomena due to the influence of the unevenness of bed surface configurations and the local bed gradients. This paper proposes an analysis method that can demonstrate three- dimensional flood currents and non-equilibrium motion of gravel particles and cobbles by improving the bed variation analysis method for stony-bed rivers and combining it with the Q3D-FEBS. Moreover, it is shown that the proposed analysis method can explain the enlargement mechanism of the river mouth opening and the formation process of the depositional landforms at the coastal area than the conventional analysis method based on the equilibrium bed load formula.
Year: 2020