Sediment Transport in Combined Wave–Current Seabed Boundary Layers due to Streaming
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 147, Issue 4
Abstract
The sediment transport in the seabed boundary layer due to wave-induced streaming has been investigated for nonzero angle between the current and the waves. The mean sediment transport is a result of interaction between streaming due to wave skewness, the Longuet-Higgins streaming, and the wave–current interaction. For colinear waves, the mean sediment transport is directed along the wave propagation direction, with the largest transport taking place beneath the waves propagating in the direction of the current. Mean sediment transport decreases with increasing angle between the current and the waves. For a particular angle, the mean sediment transport beneath second-order Stokes waves is largest and decreases in the following order: linear propagating waves followed by horizontally uniform Stokes forcing and smallest for horizontally uniform linear forcing. The direction of the mean sediment transport is rotated toward the current away from the direction in which the wave propagates. The magnitude of rotation is smallest for second-order Stokes waves and increases in the following order; linear propagating waves followed by horizontally uniform Stokes forcing, and largest for horizontally uniform linear forcing.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code generated or used during the study are available in a repository online in accordance with funder data retention policies. The digitized data measurements of Dohmen-Janssen et al. (2001, Fig. 10), Dohmen-Janssen and Hanes (2002, Fig. 6 and Table 2) whereas digitized numerical simulation data of Ma et al. (2014, Fig. 2), and Hsu and Liu (2004, Fig. 4) and corresponding modelled data can be found online (at https://zenodo.org/record/3563232).
Acknowledgments
The authors are thankful to the Norwegian Research Council (FRINATEK project, Air-Sea Interaction and Transport Mechanisms in the Ocean) and SRIC, IIT Kharagpur (MOS project under ISIRD) for their financial support.
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