Particulate Gravity Currents

Benjamin Kneller, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Eckart Meiburg, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States of America Bernhard Vowinckel, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany Zhiguo He, Zhejiang University, China

• List of Contributors viiPreface xiPart I Nature and Behavior of Gravity Currents1 A Review of Entrainment into Gravity Currents Moving on a Horizontal Surface 3Andrew W. Woods2 Particle-laden Gravity Currents: The Lock-release Slumping Regime at the Laboratory Scale 15Cyril Gadal, Jean Schneider, Cyrille Bonamy, Julien Chauchat, Yvan Dossmann, Sebastien Kiesgen de Richter, Matthieu J. Mercier, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Marie Rastello, and Laurent Lacaze3 A Comprehensive Understanding of the Structure and Dynamics of Channelized Turbidity Currents 31Sivaramkrishnan Balachandar, Jorge Salinas, Santiago L. Zúñiga, and Mariano I. Cantero4 Sedimentation of a High Alpine Hydropower Reservoir Under Climate Change: What Will Disappear First, the Glacier or the Reservoir? 49Giovanni De CesarePart II Behavior of Flows Into Stratified Ambient Fluid5 Dynamics of Gravity Currents in Stratified Environments 69Zhiguo He, Samuel Ukpong Okon, Liang Zhao, and Rui Zhu6 On the Equivalence of Top and Bottom Gravity Currents in a Linearly Stratified Channel: A Review and Extension of Data Processing and Prediction Theory 89Tanmay Agrawal, Marius Ungarish, and Vamsi ChalamallaPart III Behavior of Flows at Boundaries7 Gravity Currents Generated by Surface Cooling Over an Inclined Surface 105Kyoungsik Chang and George Constantinescu8 Impacts of Rough-permeable Beds on Turbulent Structures of Gravity Currents 123Dongrui Han, Ying-Tien Lin, Yakun Guo, and Zhiguo HePart IV Behavior of Cohesive Sediment9 Analysis of Simulation Data for Cohesive Sediment Flocculation Using a Population Balance Model 145Henri Busch, Alexander Metelkin, Kunpeng Zhao, Jorge A. Penaloza-Giraldo, Eckart Meiburg, Tian-Jian Hsu, and Bernhard Vowinckel10 The Role of Cohesion in Turbulent Sediment Transport Processes 155Kunpeng Zhao, Shuaiqi Zhao, Han Huang, Bernhard Vowinckel, Bofeng Bai, and Eckart Meiburg11 Using Mixed-clay Sediment Gravity Flow Rheology as an Indicator for Flow Velocity and Runout Distance 163Megan L. Baker, Jaco H. Baas, Jonathan Malarkey, and Ricardo Silva JacintoPart V Transport of Noncohesive Sediment12 Rheology of Bedload Transport 187Pascale Aussillous, Bernhard Vowinckel, Élisabeth Guazzelli, Franco Tapia, and Eckart Meiburg13 Grain-Size Distribution of Cyclic Steps Formed by Multisurge Turbidity Currents in an Experimental Flume: An Example of Downstream Coarsening 197Miwa Yokokawa, Ren Nagano, Kazuma Matsunami, and Atsuki FukuokaPart VI Behavior of Pyroclastic Density Currents14 Transient Dynamics in Particle-laden Density Currents: Insights into Dilute Pyroclastic Density Current Runout 209Eric C.P. Breard, Matteo Cerminara, Josef Dufek, and Sean O’Donnell15 The Detachment of Pyroclastic Density Currents behind Topographic Obstacles: A Large-scale Experimental Study 231Lucas Corna, Jim Jones, Gert Lube, Ermanno Brosch, and Daniel Uhle16 Spontaneous Unsteadiness and Sorting in Pyroclastic Density Currents and Their Deposits 249Pete Rowley, Rebecca Williams, Matthew Johnson, Thomas Johnston, Natasha Dowey, Daniel Parsons, Alison Provost, Olivier Roche, Gregory Smith, and Nemi WaldingIndex 267