Characterization of horseshoe vortex in a developing scour hole at a cylindrical bridge pier

• Main Authors: Guan, Dawei, Chiew, Yee-Meng, Wei, Maoxing, Hsieh, Shih-Chun
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; Sediment Transport; Scour
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152218
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since local scour at bridge piers in rivers and estuaries is a major cause of bridge failure, estimation of the maximum local scour depth is of great importance to hydraulic and coastal engineers. Although numerous studies that focus on scour-depth prediction have been done and published, understand...