Influence of Channel Morphology on Ice Conveyance and Bridging: Experiments with a Numerical Model
Publication: Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
Volume 34, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper presents findings from a numerical model used to conduct experiments regarding the influence of channel morphology on ice conveyance and bridging. The morphologies considered are meandering rectangular channels and rectangular channels with islands, channel tributaries, and confluences. The experiments simulated depth-averaged flow and the dynamics of ice-piece movement (two sizes of ice pieces). The results include relative time of ice conveyance along the channel and times to ice clogging and bridging for varying channel meandering. Further, the results show that channel meandering delays ice bridging because it disperses ice pieces, whereas Froude number may hasten or retard time to bridging by dispersing ice or hastening ice congestion. In addition, ice pieces at the front of a group of ice pieces may on average travel slower along the channel than ice pieces in the middle of the group. The results lead to a chart indicating when bridging occurs for ice conveyance in channels of differing meandering or morphology.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code generated or used during the study are available from the corresponding author by request.
Acknowledgments
Permission to use the photograph in Fig. 1 was given by Stacey Dumanski of the University of Saskatchewan. She and Richard Janowicz coauthored the article in which the photograph first appeared (Dumanski and Janowicz 2017). Richard Janowicz passed away in 2018.
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Received: Oct 31, 2018
Accepted: Jul 8, 2019
Published online: Dec 21, 2019
Published in print: Mar 1, 2020
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