OVERTOPPING FLOW PROPERTIES CHARACTERIZATION IN LABORATORY AND PROTOTYPE THROUGH THE COMBINATION OF NON INTRUSIVE INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUES

[摘要] Overtopping events may cause different failure modes depending on overtopped flow characteristics. Most of the studies about overtopping hazard analysis link the damages caused by the overtopping event to its mean overtopping discharge (q), which provides no information about overtopped flow characteristics or its spatial distribution.In this paper it is presented a non intrusive measurement system based on video imagery techniques and optical level sensors (OLS), which aim is to obtain overtopped highly aerated flows´ principal characteristics: velocity, volume, and density, in order to deep in the knowledge of this phenomenon, and minimizing the damages that it may cause to port´s infrastructures and exploitation

[学科分类] 建筑学

[关键词] overtopping;aerated flows;instrumental techniques