Separation of structure and ripples on sand mounds using Hermite functions

Paul Taylor; Jingmin Huang; M. Isabel García-Hermosa; Peter K. Stansby; Alistair G L Borthwick; Richard L. Soulsby

doi:10.1680/eacm.2012.165.1.15

Separation of structure and ripples on sand mounds using Hermite functions

Paul Taylor, Jingmin Huang, M. Isabel García-Hermosa, Peter K. Stansby, Alistair G L Borthwick, Richard L. Soulsby

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Abstract

A simple method is proposed for the separation of a large-scale structure from small-scale ripples during the evolution of an isolated sand hill or spoil heap eroded by an oscillatory or steady flow by bed-load transport. This method is based on Hermite functions, a mother Gaussian hill and derivatives modified to be orthogonal. It is straightforward to apply and could be used to characterise the geometric properties of any isolated localised hill-like feature such as pollution concentration levels away from an outfall.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-24
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering and Computational Mechanics
Volume	165
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1680/eacm.2012.165.1.15
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Separation of structure and ripples on sand mounds using Hermite functions. / Taylor, Paul; Huang, Jingmin; García-Hermosa, M. Isabel; Stansby, Peter K.; Borthwick, Alistair G L; Soulsby, Richard L.

In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Vol. 165, No. 1, 2012, p. 15-24.

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