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Record W4417397271 · doi:10.2166/wst.2025.177

Investigation of mechanisms governing turbulence-induced initiation of motion in non-cohesive sediment layers

2025· article· en· W4417397271 on OpenAlexaff
Seith N. Mugume, Yu Qian, David Z. Zhu, Doudou Gao, Lifang Yang

Bibliographic record

VenueWater Science & Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersKey Technologies Research and Development ProgramNatural Science Foundation of Zhejiang ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsTurbulenceAcoustic Doppler velocimetryTurbulence kinetic energyReynolds stressSedimentKinetic energySuspension (topology)Shear (geology)Eddy

Abstract

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ABSTRACT In this research, experiments were conducted to quantify how turbulence affects the initiation of three groups of quartz sands with consecutively increasing particle diameter. In the experimental setup, controlled acrylic paddles, a camera equipped with a macro lens and an acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) were applied to generate turbulence, to record the precise moments of sediment initiation and to measure flow velocity and turbulence properties, respectively. Two categories of sediment initiation were characterized: sliding and suspension, with the onset of suspension occurring at higher turbulence intensities when compared to sliding. In addition, turbulent kinetic energy and Reynolds shear stress were identified as the most critical parameters for sediment initiation. The results suggested that the first and third groups required higher turbulent levels compared with the second group, due to variations in particle size and weight. Quadrant analysis showed that sliding events predominantly occurred during ejection and up-acceleration phases, while suspension events were mostly associated with ejections, which confirmed that initiation tends to occur in specific turbulent structures. Last, a single dimensionless parameter (J) that expresses the probability of sediment initiation under turbulent flow conditions, based on the ratio of turbulent kinetic energy to critical incipient shear stress, was proposed.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.055
Threshold uncertainty score0.297

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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