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Published June 1945 | Reprint
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Experimental Investigation of Turbulence Diffusion — A Factor in Transportation of Sediment in Open-Channel Flow

Abstract

Turbulence diffusion in open-channel flow was investigated experimentally by photographing the spread of globules formed by the injection of an immiscible fluid into water. The mean-square transverse deviations of the globules at various distances downstream from the source were computed and analyzed in an effort to determine the shape of the velocity-correlation curve. Comparison was made between two types of curve which fitted the deviation data, one corresponding to a power-correlation law and the other to an exponential-correlation law.

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© 1945 ASME. Contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division and presented at the Annual Meeting, New York, N. Y., Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 1944, of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This study was conducted under the direction of Robert T. Knapp, Associate Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, California Institute of Technology. The investigation was a project of the Co-Operative Laboratory of the Soil Conservation Service, California Institute of Technology, and the author is greatly indebted to its staff. The work was carried out with the aid of the Work Projects Administration, Official Project No. 65-2-Q7-58, Work Project No. PS-11496.

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