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Ripple pattern on stainless steel-lined sluice
I can't figure out how to reply to cvg and isvaaag, so I am messaging here as if to myself! Thanks isvaaag - the turbulent "rolls" idea is what I have conceived is happening, after some surface roughness of scraping or denting was initiated by sand or gravel impacting the surface...- Lechtal
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- Forum: Civil/Environmental engineering general discussion
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Ripple pattern on stainless steel-lined sluice
Think of a large sluiceway through a dam, lined with stainless steel, and subject to flow-through velocities of 20 m/s and carrying large quantities of sand and gravel. The steel surface after time has taken on a ripple-like surface erosion not unlike a sand dune pattern. Thought to be due to...- Lechtal
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- Forum: Civil/Environmental engineering general discussion
