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Waves and Sediment Transport Due to Granular Landslides Impacting Reservoirs

Ji Li Orcid Logo, Zhixian Cao, Qingquan Liu

Water Resources Research, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 495 - 518

Swansea University Author: Ji Li Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1029/2018WR023191

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Granular landslides impacting reservoirs may generate large waves and cause active sediment transport, and an enhanced understanding of these processes is important for public safety and effective reservoir management. This study investigates the waves and sediment transport caused by landslides imp...

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Published in: Water Resources Research
ISSN: 0043-1397 1944-7973
Published: 2019
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51727
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Abstract: Granular landslides impacting reservoirs may generate large waves and cause active sediment transport, and an enhanced understanding of these processes is important for public safety and effective reservoir management. This study investigates the waves and sediment transport caused by landslides impacting reservoirs using a two‐dimensional coupled double‐layer‐averaged shallow water hydro‐sediment‐morphodynamic model. In contrast to existing models, which cannot fully account for sediment transport, the model makes a physical step forward. The model is benchmarked against laboratory experiments of landslide‐generated waves in both two and three dimensions. Based on extended numerical cases, the capability of the model is further demonstrated by comparisons with empirical relationships of waves in 2D. In addition, sediment transport is resolved in terms of the sediment concentration and bed deformation. The results show that the wave types and amplitudes in 2D are dictated by the sediment transport speed, which also governs the landslide‐to‐wave momentum transfer and the landslide efficiency, which is defined as the ratio of the horizontal runout distance to the vertical fall height. With increasing sediment transport speed, landslide‐generated waves in 2D vary gradually from smaller nonlinear oscillatory waves to larger waves with solitary‐like wave characteristics, including nonlinear transition waves, solitary waves, and dissipative transient bores. In contrast to the momentum transfer ratio, the landslide efficiency increases with the sediment transport speed and decreases with the reservoir water depth and the lateral spreading in 3D cases.
Keywords: landslide; reservoir; sediment transport; waves; landslide efficiency; momentum transfer
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 1
Start Page: 495
End Page: 518

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