ISFV13 13th International Symposium on Flow Visualization FLUVISU12 12th French Congress on Visualization in Fluid Mechanics July Nice France

ISFV13 - 13th International Symposium on Flow Visualization FLUVISU12 - 12th French Congress on Visualization in Fluid Mechanics July 1-4, 2008, Nice, France ISFV13 / FLUVISU 12 – Nice / France – 2008 1 FLOW VISUALIZATIONS AND PIV ANALYSIS OVER VORTEX RIPPLES Germain Rousseaux.* *Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis CNRS UMR 6621 Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné Parc Valrose 06108 Nice Cedex 2 France KEYWORDS: Main subject(s): sand ripples Fluid: vortex ripples,coherent structures, jet Visualization method(s): PIV measurements Other keywords: flow visualizations ABSTRACT : This article treats of the flow motion over the so-called vortex ripples which are generated by water oscillations above a sand bed. We focus mainly our experimental works on the morphology and the dynamics of transient flow patterns above real vortex ripples. With the help of flow visualizations and Particle Image Velocimetry measurements with a high-speed video CCD camera, we test numerical simulations, which predict the existence of a secondary vortex with a streamlines representation. However, our experimental findings show only one vortical structure and validate the observations of Bagnold in 1946 (using real ripples but with no visualization and measurement) and Sand Andersen & al. in 2004 (using model ripples) with respect to the existence of a transient jet. 1 Introduction Since the seminal experiments of Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold [1], sand ripples and their associated fluid flows have become a vivid field of research for physicists as an interesting example of fluid-structure interaction.

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