EP41D:
Complex Geophysical Flows and Morphological Complexity Across Scales I

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Gianluca Blois, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Conveners:  Gianluca Blois, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Co-conveners:  William Anderson, University of Texas at Dallas, Mechanical Engineering, Dallas, TX, United States, Joseph Calantoni, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Joseph Calantoni, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Measuring Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in the Swash Zone
Jack Anthony Puleo, Univ of DE-Civil & Envir Engrg, Newark, DE, United States
8:15 AM
 
Non-Equilibrium Erosion and Suspenion By a Forced Impinging Jet
Ken T Kiger, Kyle Corfman and Rahul Mulinti, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
8:30 AM
 
Bedload Transport on Steep Slopes with Coupled Modeling Based on the Discrete Element Method
Raphael Maurin1,2, Julien Chauchat3, Bruno Chareyre4 and Philippe Frey1,2, (1)IRSTEA Grenoble, Saint Martin D'Hère Cedex, France, (2)Universite Grenoble Alpes, F-38041 Grenoble, France, (3)University of Grenoble-Alpes, LEGI, Grenoble, France, (4)University of Grenoble-Alpes, 3SR, Grenoble, France
8:45 AM
 
A Two-Phase Solid/Fluid Model for Dense Granular Flows Including Dilatancy Effects
Anne Mangeney1, Francois Bouchut2, Enrique D. Fernández-Nieto3, Gladys Narbona-Reina3 and El Hadji Kone1, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Université Marne la Vallée, CNRS, Marne la Vallée, France, (3)University of Sevilla, Applied Mathematics, Sevilla, Spain
9:00 AM
 
A New View of Dynamic River Networks
J Taylor Perron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Sean Willett, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Scott W McCoy, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
9:15 AM
 
Teasing out Simplicity from Complexity: the Law of Constant Bankfull Velocity in Alluvial Rivers
Gary Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
9:30 AM
 
The Impact of Unsteady Reconfiguration on Turbulence Structure within a Flexible Canopy: Experimental Study of a Model Seagrass Meadow
Heidi Margaret Nepf1, Elizabeth Follett1, Marcelo Chamecki2 and Ying Pan3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEE, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
9:45 AM
 
The Impact of Unsteady Reconfiguration on Turbulence Structure within a Flexible Canopy: Large-Eddy Simulation Study of a Cornfield
Marcelo Chamecki, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, Ying Pan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Heidi Margaret Nepf, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Elizabeth Follett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEE, Cambridge, MA, United States