Fuminori Kato

Tsunami scour around a cylinder

A series of scale-model experiments investigated the scouring mechanisms associated with a tsunami impinging on a coastal cylindrical structure. Since scaling effects are significant in sediment transport, a large-scale sediment tank was used. Video images from inside the cylinder elucidated the vortex structures and the time development of scour around the cylinder. The scour development and mechanisms differed according to the sediment substrate – sand or gravel. For gravel, the most rapid scour coincided with the greatest flow velocities. On the other hand, for the sand substrate, the most rapid scour occurred at the end of drawdown – after flow velocities had subsided and shear stresses were presumed to have decreased. This behaviour can be explained in terms of pore pressure gradients. As the water level and velocity subside, the pressure on the sediment bed decreases, creating a vertical pressure gradient within the sand and decreasing the effective stress within the sand. Gravel is too porous to sustain this pressure gradient. During drawdown, the surface pressure decreases approximately linearly from a sustained peak at

Tsunami Scour Mechanisms Around a Cylinder

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of the buoyant weight of sediment supported by the pore pressure gradient can be estimated as \[ \Lambda = \frac{2}{\sqrt \pi} \frac{\uDelta P}{\gamma_b \sqrt {c_v \uDelta T}}, \] in which

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is the buoyant specific weight of the saturated sediment and

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