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Chapter 6 - Analysis of the test results<br />
more important than the one without ribs. A possible explanation is that this scour behaves like a<br />
combination of the first and second scour.<br />
Probably the first scour is essentially due to the flow being reflected on the side wall in the bend<br />
(causing the flow to head towards the bottom and increasing the secondary current), and the<br />
second one is influenced by the point bar (which is itself influenced by the flow), concentrating<br />
the flow at the outer side wall in combination with the main stream. For the highest rib density,<br />
the location of the first scour is shifted in the downstream direction due to the roughness of the<br />
outer wall, but the point bar forms as usual or is even shifted in the upstream direction (see<br />
6.2.1 c). At the point where the scour now occurs, the two phenomena are superposed and an<br />
important amplification of the scour depth.<br />
A last observation concerns the erosion after the bend: the presence of macro-roughness causes<br />
some additional erosion in the outlet reach. Since the ribs create head losses in the bend, the water<br />
is accumulated upstream the bend and accelerated after the bend to pass the same discharge<br />
(steepening of the bed slope). Fortunately, this additional erosion is of limited depth and located<br />
towards the center of the channel where it does not endanger bank protection structures. If the<br />
curve is immediately followed by a bend in the other direction, bank protection measures may be<br />
necessary in the following curve.<br />
f) Shape of the cross-sections - line bend<br />
SCHÖBERL (2002) made an interesting observation in the sinuous channel used by REINDL (1994)<br />
(see also § 3.5.2/11). In the scour holes, the cross-section presents a point where the lateral slope<br />
abruptly changes. At the inner bank the bed is quite flat and towards the outer bank, an important<br />
lateral bed slope can be observed. This abrupt change in the bed slope (see Figure 6.4) will be<br />
called in this report as “line bend”.<br />
Considering the measured cross-sections (Appendix 7), this line bend can be found, too. But it is<br />
mainly observed in the part where the scour develops than at the maximum scour location<br />
(Figure 6.9).<br />
page <strong>12</strong>4 / November 9, 2002<br />
Wall roughness effects on flow and scouring