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Author(s): F. Marin
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Abstract: This paper describes an experimental programme carried out in a laboratory channel, to investigate the velocity distributions over a rippled bed in combined wave-current flows. In this study, waves propagate against a turbulent current. Velocity measurements were made with a laser-Doppler anemometer. The Nikuradse roughness length k s , of the bed has been estimated from the traditional logarithmic velocity profile for current alone. The most significant effect of the superposition of waves on a current is the increase of the apparent roughness of the bed with increasing wave height. This effect is well described by Sleath's [49] model. As for rough flat beds, the turbulence intensity over ripples varies inversely with height at sufficiently large distance from the bed for wave-dominated flows.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221686.1999.9628265
Year: 1999