Effect of air release height on the formation of sediment thermals in water

• Main Authors: Zhao, Bing, Shao, Dongdong, Huang, Zhenhua, Eric Adams, E., Law, Adrian Wing-Keung
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96794; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11649
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this study, the underwater behaviour of sediment thermals (i.e. sediment clouds in the self-preserving phase), formed by releasing dry sediments instantaneously from various heights above water, was investigated experimentally. Measurements show that as the air release height increases, the initi...