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Research article
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21 Dec 2020
Research article |
| 21 Dec 2020
| 21 Dec 2020
Inertial drag and lift forces for coarse grains on rough alluvial beds measured using in-grain accelerometers
Georgios Maniatis
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Trevor Hoey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brunel University London, London, UK
Rebecca Hodge
Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK
Dieter Rickenmann
Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Zurich, Switzerland
Alexandre Badoux
Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Zurich, Switzerland
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One of the most interesting problems in geomorphology concerns the conditions that mobilise sediments grains in rivers. Newly developed
smartpebbles allow for the measurement of those conditions directly if a suitable framework for analysis is followed. This paper connects such a framework with the physics used to described sediment motion and presents a series of laboratory and field smart-pebble deployments. Those quantify how grain shape affects the motion of coarse sediments in rivers.
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