| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 40, 2018
River Flow 2018 - Ninth International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics
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| Article Number | 03008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Hydraulic structures and their effects on bed, flow regime and ecology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184003008 | |
| Published online | 05 September 2018 | |
Investigation of local scour around tandem piers for different skew-angles
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Department of Water Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran Currently at: Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 18, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2
Water Resources Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
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Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 18, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
* Corresponding author: sargol.memar@epfl.ch
In the present study the effect of the skew-angle of the alignment of tandem piers on local scour depth around them is investigated. The tandem piers were aligned with different skew-angles of θ=0°,30°,45°,60°,90° with respect to the flow direction. The results indicatethat with the increment of the skew-angle, the influence of sheltering effects is decreased. In other word, since the sheltering effect of the upstream pier is declined (which reduces the approach velocity for the downstream pier) the scour depth around downstream pier increases. The results show that the maximum scour depth occurs at both piers for the skew-angle of θ=45°.Furthermore, the best configuration to aligned tandem piers was achieved at the skew-angle of θ=30°.
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