| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Several workers have pointed out the importance of the groundwater flow in a sandy tidal beach on stability and deformation processes of the foreshore slope. The quantitative descriptions of the effects on sediment transport rates in swash zone, however, have not been sufficiently studied. The present study has evaluated the in- and ex-filtration effects on the sediment transport by analyzing the flow fields both for on a slope and inside the porous medium.
In the first year, a transient infiltration flow into a sand basement, which simulates percolation process of run-up waves, has been analyzed by expanding Dicker's unsteady seepage flow theory. For a description on the run-up wave motion, a numerical model with moving boundary treatment has been used. As a result, the wave velocities on a sandy slope are little affected by the seepage flow, and the infiltration velocities do not show unsteady properties even though the imposed pressure variations are highly unsteady. Next, motions of a sediment particle under both flow motions by run-up waves and by seepage flows are discussed. Analytical expressions on the critical tractive force and sediment transport rate including in- and ex-filtration effects have been derived.
In the second year, an analytical non-linear wave theory has been adopted in order to improve accuracy on the velocity field compared to the first year. Using obtained wave motions, a spherical particle motion placed on a slope is traced based on the equation of motion. The characteristics of the sediment motions and resultant sediment transport rate have been discussed.
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